Opinion
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A Record Number of Journalists Jailed
The Committee to Protect Journalists has recorded another dismal milestone in the onslaught of authoritarian leaders against a free press…
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Give Where You Live
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Surprise! There’s No Voter Fraud. Again.
For those who spend their days operating within the constraints of empirical reality, the long-running voter-fraud scam peddled by right-wing…
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Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People
Roosevelt Montás came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a child, got his bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D.…
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What’s Better Than Charity?
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What Economists Think About Immigration Doesn’t Really Matter
Labor shortages in the United States have led to renewed calls to increase immigration to enlarge the work force. (Yes,…
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Can This Woman Save American Public Education?
The parents were talking about pandemic schooling, so, unsurprisingly, the conversation quickly turned to emotional devastation. It was a ...
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My Son Is Not Alone. Millions of Young People Commit His Crime.
CAIRO — Standing outside the Tora prison complex, where my son is held, a mother asks me: What’s your son…
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Freedom’s Just Another Word for … What Exactly?
It is among the ironies of American history that both the opponents and the defenders of hierarchy cast their views,…
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Inflation Keeps Getting Worse. But Can the Fed Really Rein It In?
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