Opinion
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Some Black Voters Are Souring on Democrats. It May Be Part of a Natural Drift.
“I almost voted for him,” Felicia Lowe, a 55-year-old Black woman, told me on Tuesday as she exited the polling…
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Yes, the Internet Is Broken. But What Does a Fix Look Like?
Tuesday was the 35th anniversary of the day that Tim Berners-Lee of the European Organization for Nuclear Research wrote the…
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Why We Gave Up on the Future
In America, now, we are living at “the end of the future,” the historian Steve Fraser wrote this month in…
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Robert Hur’s Testimony About His Report on Biden
More from our inbox: Covid and the ‘Nocebo Effect’Move Up New York’s PrimaryIs It Appropriation, or Cultural Synthesis?The Art of…
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Why Haley Supporters Should Turn to Biden, Not Trump
Shortly after Nikki Haley exited the presidential race, Joe Biden issued a statement welcoming her supporters to the Democratic Party.…
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Child Care Is ‘Just a Huge Mess.’ Will Government Finally Fix It?
A few weeks ago, I got a panicked message from Jason Cohen, a dad in upstate New York. He told…
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What the ‘Rust’ Shooting Case Is Really About
In my first job as a military adviser on a film set, I witnessed the stark contrast between the gun…
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Gabriel García Márquez Did Not Want His Final Book Published. But Should That Really Be the End of the Story?
When the writer Gabriel García Márquez, the author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and other classic novels, died 10…
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There Is Something Putin Can’t Control
According to “The Master and Margarita,” Mikhail Bulgakov’s celebrated novel about the devil’s visit to Stalinist Moscow, “manuscripts don’t burn.”…
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Kate Middleton’s Story Is About So Much More Than Kate Middleton
“Where Is Kate Middleton?” yet another headline blared on Monday. The public speculation following her unspecified abdominal surgery, long withdrawal…