Opinion
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How R. Kelly Got Away With It
R. Kelly believed he could lie about his sexual predation and bury the allegations against him with an endless supply…
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Britain Is Heading Into a Nightmarish Winter
LONDON — Long lines outside gas stations. Panicked drivers fighting one another as the pumps run dry. Soldiers deployed to…
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Of Vaccine Mandates and Facing Reality
Three weeks ago President Biden announced plans to require Covid-19 vaccinations — or, in some cases, weekly testing as an…
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This Is Why We Need to Spend $4 Trillion
I’ve spent the last few weeks in a controlled fury — and I’m not normally a fury kind of guy.…
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We’re Living Through One of the Most Explosive Extinction Episodes Ever
Twin crises afflict the natural world. The first is climate change. Its causes and potentially catastrophic consequences are well known.…
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There’s Nothing to Like in Facebook’s Plans to Hook Our Kids
Facebook was on Capitol Hill on Thursday to receive its semiregular scolding from Congress about how its services are bad…
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It Shouldn’t Take 50 Meetings to Build Some Apartments
Who should be in charge of housing? Should it be local homeowners who organize themselves into neighborhood organizations to protect…
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I Know All Too Well How a Lovely Relationship Can Descend Into Abuse
Like much of America, I spent the past two weeks closely monitoring the case of Gabrielle Petito, 22, who left…
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Can Andrew Yang End America’s 2-Party System?
Produced by ‘Sway’ Andrew Yang failed in his campaigns for president of the United States and mayor of New York…
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Divorce Can Be an Act of Radical Self-Love
I used to believe that divorce is a terrible thing, particularly when children are involved. Growing up, I absorbed cultural…