Opinion
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The Federal Bureau of Dirty Tricks
This month’s bombshell indictment of Igor Danchenko, the Russian national who is charged with lying to the F.B.I. and whose…
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When Can the U.S. Declare Victory Over Covid?
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Tuesdays and Thursdays.…
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I Warned the Democrats About Inflation
Enough already about “transitory” inflation. Last Wednesday’s terrible Consumer Price Index news shifts our inflation prospects strongly into the ...
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‘Woke’ Went the Way of ‘P.C.’ and ‘Liberal’
In 2018, the NPR correspondent Sam Sanders made this modest proposal: “It’s time to put woke to sleep” — arguing…
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How Far-Right Extremism Invaded Mainstream Politics
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Over the course of Donald Trump’s presidency, the far-right fringe became a surprisingly visible…
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The Absurd Side of the Social Justice Industry
If you follow debates over the strident style of social justice politics often derided as “wokeness,” you might have heard…
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The Steele Dossier Indicted the Media
On Jan. 10, 2017, BuzzFeed News published a photo rendition of a 35-page memo titled “U.S. Presidential Election: Republican Candidate…
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Democrats Still Don’t Understand Asian American Voters
In the last edition of this newsletter, I wrote about the dilemma that faces progressives who may have problems with…
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The Risk-Return Trade-Off Is Phony
Conventional wisdom in investing says there’s a trade-off between risk and return. To make a lot of money, you must…
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Monopoly’s Bad Cousin
The nation’s antitrust police, asleep for the past few decades, barely opening their eyes to buzz through the latest corporate…