Opinion
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Europe Has Made a Deadly Bargain With Autocrats
It’s shocking to see. Children huddle over precariously built bonfires and parents hold babies to their chests while soldiers, behind…
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Not All Religious People Oppose Abortion
Nearly 30 years ago, my mother was one of the hundreds of thousands of people who attended the 1992 March…
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Joe Biden Is Succeeding
Joe Biden came to the White House at a pivotal moment in American history. We had become a country dividing…
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Biden Thinks He Can Have It Both Ways on China. He’s Wrong.
The choreography has been exquisite. President Biden spent his first nine months in office trying to gain leverage over China:…
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Biden Says His Infrastructure Law Is a ‘Big Deal.’ How Big?
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Everything You Think You Know About the Suburbs Is Wrong
The suburban school is an imagined space that invites an unhealthy amount of hyperbole, misinterpretation and fear. All-white classrooms with…
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Families Are Reuniting for Their First Post-Vax Thanksgiving. Here’s Some Advice.
Even before the Covid pandemic, Thanksgiving could be an emotional minefield for many families. Tensions over the 2016 presidential election…
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What Happens After the Worst of the Pandemic Is Behind Us?
No one knows when the pandemic will end. But the worst of it may be over for the United States…
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Think Biden’s a Bust? Check Your Cynicism.
It’s easy to be cynical. Hell, it’s fashionable. It’s also safe. Over some 35 years in journalism, I’ve routinely seen…
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The Supply-Chain Crisis Is Creating a Rare Opportunity for Truck Drivers
On the water’s edge of Wando Welch, a shipping terminal covering more than 200 acres in greater Charleston, S.C., I…