Opinion
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Why Democrats Are in Trouble
Days before it became clear that the Republican Glenn Youngkin would win Virginia’s gubernatorial race, pollsters, pundits and political ...
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Some Hear Grammar Don’ts. I Hear the Future of English.
It may seem from some of my recent newsletters — championing “they” as a singular pronoun and “me” as a…
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3 Big Questions Looming Over the Glasgow Climate Talks
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 Was Told I Have Career Advantages ‘as a Black Woman.’ Here’s How I Replied.
For senior company executives, appointments to public boards are one way to ease into retirement with purpose and prestige. But…
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A Quietly Big Idea on How We Think About Homeless People
Are the unhoused a “people”? If the answer is yes, then don’t they deserve equal protection under the law? These…
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No, Vaccine Mandates Aren’t an Attack on Freedom
The Delta surge in Covid-19 seems to be receding. That’s good news, and not just because fewer people are dying.…
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We Should All Know Less About Each Other
In 2017, after the shock of Brexit and then Donald Trump’s election, Christopher Bail, a professor of sociology and public…
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How the ‘Green Wave’ Movement Did the Unthinkable in Latin America
While access to safe abortion is threatened from the United States to China, the “Marea Verde,” or Green Wave, women’s…
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Stopping Climate Change Doesn’t Need to Be Altruistic
One of the approximately 700 things that make climate change a knotty problem is that fighting it requires people living…
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The Looming Crisis for the Gun Safety Movement
The gun safety movement finds itself on the precipice of disaster. With new grass-roots and advocacy organizations, better financing, and…