Opinion
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Wonking Out: How Global Is Inflation?
On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that consumer prices in the United States rose 6.2 percent over the…
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Can Reaganism Rise Again?
For a long time, longer than I’ve held this job, my advice to Republican politicians and policymakers has been consistent:…
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How to Teach a Little Girl to Love Her Brown Skin
My 5-year-old daughter, Nusayba, twirled around in her princess dress, fixing her silver tiara and checking out her newly applied…
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It’s Time to End the Pandemic Emergency at the Border
President Biden took office pledging to rescind the Trump administration’s deliberately harsh policies toward migrants who show up at America’s…
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Why I Can’t Quit Extreme Workouts
I am not a person who tends toward extremes. I shy away from skydiving or deep sea exploration (too high;…
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How Kyrsten Sinema Uses Clothing to Signal Her Social Class
I wrote about Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s political storytelling the past couple of weeks. We covered why it is not only…
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A Frenzy of Book Banning
Virginia’s Spotsylvania County School Board this week voted unanimously to have books with “sexually explicit” material removed from school ...
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Consumers Are Resisting Inflation
The Consumer Price Index rose 6.2 percent in the 12 months through October, the worst inflation since 1990 and a…
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If You Have Something to Say, Then Say It
As time goes by, I am ever more perplexed by why we make students learn to write the classic five-paragraph…
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It’s Time to Get Honest About the Biden Doctrine
A year after President Biden’s election, we’re beginning to see the contours of his foreign policy: He has something for…