Opinion
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Omicron Is a Mystery. How Should We Prepare?
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Trump’s Iran Policy Has Become a Disaster for the U.S. and Israel
The judges have voted and the results are in: President Donald Trump’s decision to tear up the Iran nuclear deal…
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On the Trans-Atlantic Price Gap
This morning Eurostat, the European statistical agency, announced its “flash” estimate of November inflation for the euro area. It came…
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Stephen Sondheim Wrote My Life’s Soundtrack
The last thing I wanted to sit through, one evening during my senior year in college, was something called “A…
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China Is Winning the Big Data War
President Joe Biden came away from his summit with China’s President Xi Jinping on Nov. 15 committed to prosecuting what…
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The Case Against Abortion
A striking thing about the American abortion debate is how little abortion itself is actually debated. The sensitivity and intimacy…
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What Europe Can Teach Us About Jobs
Americans have a hard time learning from foreign experience. Our size and the role of English as an international language…
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What ‘My Body, My Choice’ Means to the Right
Here’s a bit of evidence that we live in a simulation controlled by someone with a perverse sense of humor:…
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A Song for Stephen Sondheim, by Julie Andrews and Others
To the Editor: Re “Stephen Sondheim, 1930-2021: Virtuoso Who Reshaped the Broadway Musical” (obituary, front page, Nov. 27): Stephen Sondheim’s…
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South Africa Deserves a Big, Fat Prize
South Africa is paying a heavy price for its good deed of telling the world about the Omicron variant of…