Opinion
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Social Media Is Polluted With Climate Denialism
This fall, Exxon Mobil started targeting New Yorkers with Facebook advertisements that warned about a proposed law that would require…
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The Challenges Faced by the Democrats
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The Many Deaths of William Holden Taught Me How to Be Anxious
On Nov. 12, 1981, William Holden, the Hollywood star, was standing on the subway platform at Columbus Circle in Manhattan,…
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You Are the Object of a Secret Extraction Operation
Facebook is not just any corporation. It reached trillion-dollar status in a single decade by applying the logic of what…
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Madison Saw Something in the Constitution We Should Open Our Eyes To
Not content to simply count on the traditional midterm swing against the president’s party, Republicans are set to gerrymander their…
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Sure, Biden’s Plan Costs a Lot of Money. But the Price of Inaction Is Higher.
At the beginning of the year, Democrats knew they had a rare opportunity to make transformational change. With control of…
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It’s Time for the Media to Choose: Neutrality or Democracy?
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ “Making it harder to vote, and harder to understand what the party is really…
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The Awesome Importance of Imagination
Plato and Aristotle disagreed about the imagination. As the philosopher Stephen Asma and the actor Paul Giamatti pointed out in…
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Americans Are in a Funk About the Economy. How Long Will It Last?
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Ethiopia Is Tearing Itself Apart
Thousands of people killed, more than two million internally displaced and nearly a million facing famine. The conflict in Ethiopia,…