Opinion
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Democrats Are in Peril. Can They Talk Themselves Out of It?
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Washington Should Quit Its Budget Gimmicks
Americans of a certain age may remember J. Wellington Wimpy, a droll character from Popeye cartoons. “I’ll gladly pay you…
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Republicans, the Anti-Business Party
Big business is overwhelmingly in favor of requiring that workers get vaccinated against Covid-19. A recent CNBC survey of chief…
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Honestly, You Should Keep Using These Verboten Terms
To speak our language these days with enlightenment is to harbor an ongoing sense that there are words and expressions…
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The Hospital Occupation that Changed Public Health Care
OpinionSupported by Continue reading the main storyThe Hospital Occupation that Changed Public Health Care The Young Lords took over Lincoln…
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Lessons on Living Well, From Nick Offerman
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Nick Offerman is best known for his role as Ron Swanson, the mustachioed, libertarian…
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Afghanistan Is Facing a Total Economic Meltdown
Traveling around Kabul a few weeks ago, the city felt worlds apart from my last visit in 2019 — and…
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Doing Economics as if Evidence Matters
Nobel Memorial Prizes in economics are given for long-term research, not for economists’ role in current debates, so they don’t…
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Is the Race to the Bottom Over?
Economics professors like to stage a fun competition with their students to introduce them to game theory. It goes like…
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Samantha Bee Doesn’t Miss Donald Trump
Produced by ‘Sway’ The 45th president may have been ripe material for (dark) comedy, but Samantha Bee sure does not…