Opinion
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Is Green Growth Possible?
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ A decade ago, I was feeling pretty pessimistic about climate change. The politics of…
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How Michigan Ended Minority Rule
On April 8, one day before the Arizona Supreme Court reinstated a ban on abortion from 1864, Donald Trump said…
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The Price We Pay for Having Upper-Class Legislators
There is a coordinated, nationwide effort to roll back child labor laws, part of a broader campaign to concentrate even…
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That Strange Piece of Metal Origami Embodies All Elon Musk’s Flaws
Some of the problems Tesla is facing — including first-quarter profits that are down 9 percent from last year, stressful…
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My Late-in-Life Friendship With Helen Vendler
One makes so few new friends in older age — I mean, real friends, the ones you bond with and…
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Trump Is Flirting With Quack Economics
More than 30 years ago, the economists Rudiger Dornbusch (one of my mentors) and Sebastian Edwards wrote a classic paper…
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Class of 2024, It’s Not in Your Head: The Job Market Is Tough
Here is a brutal fact for the college class of 2024: There aren’t enough college-level jobs out there for all…
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The Campus Protests: Voices From Columbia, Barnard and Beyond
More from our inbox: Don’t Delay the Trump TrialsTrump, Pence and AbortionProtesters have occupied a lawn at Columbia University for…
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Student Protest Is an Essential Part of Education
Anyone who was at Columbia University in the spring of 1968 cannot help but see a reprise of those stormy,…
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Some Concrete Reasons Not to Be Totally Panicked
Gail Collins: Bret, I have a feeling we’re going to be spending a good amount of time talking about the…