Opinion
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What’s Wrong With Kyrsten Sinema?
In 2003, Joe Lieberman, at the time one of the worst Democratic senators, traveled to Arizona to campaign for his…
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The Fed’s Great Dissenter
A dissent can seem cranky. Look, you lost. Don’t waste everyone’s time relitigating the case. On the other hand, a…
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On Very Serious People, Climate and Children
Do you remember the days of the Simpson-Bowles debt-reduction plan? A decade ago elite opinion was obsessed with the supposed…
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Should You Care about Unvaccinated N.B.A. Players?
Last week, Kyrie Irving, the star guard for the Brooklyn Nets, missed the team’s media day at the Barclays Center.…
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These Young Singers Still Carry the Torch of Black Freedom
NASHVILLE — In an account of her years as assistant director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Ella Sheppard, a gifted…
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What America Owes Haitian Asylum Seekers
Last month, the Biden administration announced that it had cleared a makeshift tent camp where thousands of Haitians had congregated…
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Want to Change the World? First, Be Still.
When I was in college, I met a chain-smoking Franciscan priest who changed my life. He was a chaplain at…
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If Men Needed the Abortions …
On Thursday, three women of color — sitting members of Congress — testified before the House Committee on Oversight and…
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Don’t Let Amazon Eat the Film Industry
In the 1930s and ’40s, five major Hollywood studios dominated the film industry and tried to lock up distribution and…
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Protests Are Taking Over the World. What’s Driving Them?
September was turbulent: More than 200 Australians arrested during citywide protests and a temporary no-fly zone declared over Melbourne. Rubber…