Opinion
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Xi, Putin and Trump: The Strongmen Follies
The last five years have been a master class in comparative politics, because something happened that we’d never seen before…
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A New Iran Deal Leaves Us Meeker and Weaker
What does President Biden think he will get out of a new nuclear deal with Iran? A year ago, the…
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Is Slang as Swell as It Used to Be? Yas!
The first Looney Tunes star character, before Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the others, was a blandly joyous little Mickey…
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Odessa and the Ukraine That Should Have Been
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has sent the prices of many commodities skyrocketing. And it’s not just oil and gas.…
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While Democrats Debate ‘Latinx,’ Latinos Head to the G.O.P.
Democrats working to save their slim majority in the House in November’s elections have been sounding alarms lately over research…
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When Reagan Said Gay
On March 8, the Florida Senate passed the innocuously named Parental Rights in Education Act, which Gov. Ron DeSantis is…
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Latinos Aren’t Leaving the Democratic Party. The Party Is Leaving Them.
Democrats working to save their slim majority in the House in November’s elections have been sounding alarm bells lately over…
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The Best Time to Prepare for a Covid Surge Is Now
The most important lesson of the Covid pandemic is that the only constant is change. Variants spread, cases surge and…
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How Energy Markets Are Shaping Putin’s Invasion — and the World
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Nearly every dimension of the Ukraine-Russia conflict has been shaped by energy markets. Russia’s…
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The Grand Theory Driving Putin to War
President Vladimir Putin’s bloody assault on Ukraine, nearly a month in, still seems inexplicable. Rockets raining down on apartment buildings…