Opinion
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American Families Are Drowning in Care Costs. Here’s How to Change That.
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Every day in the United States, more than 10,000 babies are born and 10,000…
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Biden’s Democracy Conference Is About Much More Than Democracy
While Americans angry about the results of the 2020 election were busy storming their own Capitol and conducting the umpteenth…
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Can We Help the Homeless?
In the last edition of this newsletter, I wrote about the proliferation of tiny-home villages for those living on the…
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Readers Share What They’re Grateful for
Lots of people are feeling grateful in this holiday season, if my email inbox is any indication. I was flooded…
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A Glimmer of Justice in Death Penalty States
NASHVILLE — In 1987, a young man named Pervis Payne, stopping at his girlfriend’s place in Millington, Tenn., noticed that…
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Opioids Feel Like Love. That’s Why They’re Deadly in Tough Times.
I had told myself that I’d never try heroin because it sounded too perfect. It’s like “warm, buttery love,” a…
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I Tried to Change Bob Dole. Now I Realize He Was Right.
Early in the 1996 race for the White House, the senior leadership of Bob Dole’s presidential campaign noticed something that…
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The Ghosts of Mississippi
Mississippi may be about to double down on its dubious distinction as the state where the tide of progress is…
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I’m Not Ready for Christmas. I Need to Take a Minute.
The past two years blur in my mind into a reel of fuzzy memories, stresses and changes, Covid alert levels,…
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A Tiny Home of One’s Own
If you have spent time in recent years in any of California’s larger cities, you’ve probably seen outcroppings of small,…