Opinion
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Running San Francisco Made Dianne Feinstein
When I was interviewing Senator Dianne Feinstein in 2011 for a book about San Francisco’s tumultuous history from the 1960s…
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A President on a Picket Line
On Tuesday, Joe Biden became the first sitting American president to walk a picket line. Specifically, he joined strikers and…
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What They Don’t Tell You About Getting Old
I recently turned 83, and while there are many joys to getting older, getting out of taxis is not one…
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Make TV and Movies Weird Again
My favorite house-hunting and travel show is not on television. It’s on TikTok, from a creator going by the handle…
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DiFi, Breaking Into the Boys’ Club
WASHINGTON — I’ve always said that the Washington Monument is an apt symbol, a Freudian obelisk redolent of all the…
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Why Unions Are Good for America
As the United Automobile Workers strike continues, we’re likely to hear grumbling about labor unions. “They killed the auto industry…
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Trump’s G.O.P. Rivals Must Unite or Die. (They’ll Probably Still Die.)
I’m not sure that an assembly of presidential candidates have ever given off stronger loser vibes, if I may use…
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Raising Kids in Single-Parent Households
Readers react to a guest essay arguing that the growing number of such households is bad for the children.
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Wonking Out: Are High Interest Rates the New Normal?
Goodbye, inflation. Hello, unsustainable debt. If you’ve spent any substantial amount of time engaged in discourse about the economy —…
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The Flaw in the Case Against Amazon
Americans buy a lot of stuff from Amazon. But Americans also just buy a lot of stuff. This presents a…
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