Opinion
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Laugh at the S.N.L. School Board Skit, Take Your Local Politics Seriously.
Angry activists have commandeered so many routine school board meetings in the past few months that “Saturday Night Live” —…
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Sex Bots and Mortality and A.I., Oh My!
Produced by ‘Sway’ As Tesla develops its humanoid robot and Facebook — sorry, now Meta — rebrands to signal its…
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Would Russia or China Help Us if We Were Invaded by Space Aliens?
In a recent essay on great-power competition and climate change, Rob Litwak, an arms control expert at the Wilson Center,…
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A Dangerous Legal Battle Over Vaccine Mandates Will Continue
The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to allow Maine’s vaccine mandate for health care workers to go into effect was…
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How Could I Ever Love Michigan State?
I hate Michigan State. I hate its football team, its basketball team, its volleyball team, its campus. I hate its…
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Spooky Door Signs for Very Weird Times
Nathaniel Russell is an artist living and working in Indianapolis.
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Reform New York City’s Board of Elections Now
If you built a laboratory solely to concoct the most inept, opaque and self-dealing election board imaginable, you would have…
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How I Became a Science Experiment
Trust the science. That was the mantra that many people repeated in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic — an…
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Why We Should Talk About What Kyrsten Sinema Is Wearing
I spent the past week in Nashville, where I’ve been reporting a story and doing background for a book project.…
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If a Tree Doesn’t Fall in the Forest …
We’re all familiar with the riddle about a tree falling in the forest and making or not making a sound.…