Opinion
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In the Shelter of a Weeping Beech
Off Route 6 on Cape Cod, a few miles in from the bay near Yarmouth, Mass., there hides a giant…
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The Polar Explorer, and Scammer, Who Should Be an American Hero
We don’t have national heroes anymore. When we put public figures up on pedestals today, it’s not always about their…
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Proust Had Madeleines. I Have McNuggets.
By Adrian J. Rivera Produced by Vishakha Darbha Growing up in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, the Opinion editorial assistant Adrian…
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A Fight at Columbia’s School of Social Work
More from our inbox: Rooming Houses as a Solution to HomelessnessMy Family’s StoryCredit...Illustration by Sam Whitney/The New York TimesTo the…
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Let’s Rescue Book Lovers From This Online Hellscape
If you have not kept up with the latest scandal in the world of young adult publishing, it is a…
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‘Fairytale of New York’ Isn’t Like Any Other Christmas Song
I fell in love with “Fairytale of New York,” the indelible Christmas song by the Pogues, before I’d heard a…
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I Used to Write Jokes About How Parenting Is Terrible. Then I Had My Daughter.
Here is a summary of a conversation I feel like I had countless times during my pregnancy: You think being…
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I Am Gaza City’s Mayor. Our Lives and Culture Are in Rubble.
As a teenager in the 1980s, I watched the construction of the intricately designed Rashad al-Shawa Cultural Center in Gaza…
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We’re Thinking About Pain All Wrong
For many years I’ve written about people suffering intractable pain, and how their agony and increased risk of suicide and…
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This Is Why Jesus Wept
Of all the qualities that the New Testament ascribes to God, compassion is among the most shocking. Compassion has nothing…