Opinion
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Russia and Other Petrostates Will Still Exert Muscle in the Clean Energy Shift
If you were wondering whether Europe is running out of options to deal with its continuing energy crisis, one of…
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Stephen Breyer Was the Right Justice for the Wrong Age
Two misfortunes have befallen Stephen G. Breyer during his long Supreme Court career. One, which became apparent about halfway through…
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Biden Promised a Black Woman on the Supreme Court
Joe Biden limped into the South Carolina primaries in 2020. He had finished fourth in Iowa, fifth in New Hampshire,…
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Is the Great Resignation Overblown?
We’ve been bombarded by headlines about the Great Resignation. “Workers Are Quitting Their Jobs in Record Numbers.” “We’ve Become a…
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The Narcotic Pleasures of #Cleantok
In the lowest depths of my pandemic torpor, one of the few things that would lift my spirits was watching…
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Treating Addiction as a Crime Doesn’t Work. What Oregon Is Doing Just Might.
Morgan Godvin arrived at the Multnomah County Inverness jail in Oregon in June 2013. She had volunteered to be locked…
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This Is What Made Covid the ‘Almost Ideal Polarizing Crisis’
Why did the national emergency brought about by the Covid pandemic not only fail to unite the country, but instead…
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The View From the Middle: 14 Swing Voters on Biden’s First Year
Produced by ‘The Argument’ A year into the Biden administration, most of us can agree on one thing: The United…
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We’re Probably in a Simulation. How Much Should That Worry Us?
Imagine that when your great-grandparents were teenagers, they got their hands on a groundbreaking new gadget, the world’s first fully…
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The Year of American Disappointment
A year ago last week, Joe Biden was inaugurated as president of a country poised between two possible post-pandemic futures…