Opinion
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The Revolt of the American Worker
All happy economies are alike; each unhappy economy is unhappy in its own way. In the aftermath of the 2008…
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How Homeowners’ Associations Get Their Way in California
In the last edition of my newsletter, I wrote about Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithya Raman and the challenges she’s…
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What America Means to Me: 2021
A nation is a community of people that, at best, is held together by a common story. When I was…
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Can Lab-Grown Burgers Help Stop Climate Change?
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Tuesdays and Thursdays.…
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Robocalls Are Not Even the Worst of It
I am happy to inform you that the federal government is revving up the war on robocalls. I checked on…
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What if You Had Abortion Pills in Your Medicine Cabinet?
In 2018, the Austria-based nonprofit Aid Access began offering Americans a new service: For the first time, pregnant people could…
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Jon Gruden’s Emails Shocked Me. They Shouldn’t Have.
In emails written between 2011 and 2018, Jon Gruden, then an ESPN analyst and past and future N.F.L. head coach,…
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Dave Chappelle’s Brittle Ego
We generally have the same debates about comedy over and over. Let’s address those upfront: Art should be made without…
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Here Are the Cool Economic Tools that Just Got a Nobel
I have a T-shirt that I have never put on because I don’t deserve to wear it. It says “Master…
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Rich Countries Must Bear the Cost if We Can Ever Hope to Achieve a Net-Zero World
As the leaders of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund meet this week, they have a chance to…