Opinion
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Yes, Americans Should Be Mailed Free Tests
The White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, responded with exasperation this week to a question about distributing at-home tests to…
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The Supreme Court Faces a Voting Paradox
There is a chance — not a likelihood, but a chance — that the decision the Supreme Court reaches on…
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The Year America Lost Its Democracy
The foreign-policy journalist Joshua Keating used to write a series for Slate called “If It Happened There,” in which he…
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‘Improvise It, Man.’ How to Make Magic Like the Beatles.
Paul McCartney is stressing out. At various points in “The Beatles: Get Back,” the three-part, nearly-eight-hour documentary chronicling the 1969…
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Can the Press Prevent a Trump Restoration?
There is a school of thought that holds that if Donald Trump sweeps back into power in 2024, or else…
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The Pandemic Is Beating Putin
A deadly virus can’t be ignored, jailed, exiled or co-opted — nor can it be locked down without great economic…
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U.S.-China Competition Is Our Best Bet for Climate Progress
If you are in the market for an electric vehicle today, there’s a good chance you’ll buy a Tesla. Fast…
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Pearl Harbor and the Capacity for Surprise
It’s a shame that the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor received so little public attention. We are…
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How Can Something Be Racist but Not Racist at the Same Time?
There’s something about how we talk about race in America that strikes me as novel, which I get the feeling…
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What Kind of Power Should the Names of New York Have?
Americans have place-names on the brain. Amid a widespread push to remove monuments of Confederates and Christopher Columbus from our…