Opinion
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Christmas Is Weird
When I was growing up, one toy captured my imagination: a Power Wheels Jeep. It was the Christmas present that…
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A Feast Isn’t Just About Food. It’s About Joy.
There’s a long tradition among social thinkers and policymakers of treating workers as walking, talking machines that turn calories into…
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Finding Inspiration in an Otherwise Dull Year
I want to end the year with a bibliography of sorts. I’ve written, to date, 33 editions of this newsletter,…
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My Gay Retort to All the Grimness
The world is on fire. That’s no exaggeration, as The Times Opinion section’s recent canvass of the effects of climate…
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A Message From Britain on Using Rapid Tests
Since 2020, Britain has used rapid at-home antigen tests to help combat the spread of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19.…
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Will Donald Trump Get Away With Inciting an Insurrection?
In his nine months in office, Attorney General Merrick Garland has done a great deal to restore integrity and evenhanded…
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Grieving Our Old Normal
OpinionSupported by Continue reading the main storyGrieving Our Old Normal Dec. 23, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ETRead in appSend any friend…
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Why Jesus Never Stopped Asking Questions
Malcolm Muggeridge, the renowned 20th-century social critic and British journalist, was an unlikely convert to Christianity. For most of his…
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Where’s Joe Biden?
Joe Biden’s poll numbers keep sliding. Americans, including many of the people who voted for him, are not happy with…
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The Rise of Eric Adams and Black New York
It was winter in Black New York, and the last thing Eric Leroy Adams wanted to do was join the…