Opinion
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The Forgotten Nursing-Home Tragedy
For many of the most vulnerable people in our society, the pandemic has not let up. More than 186,000 residents…
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It’s Time to Change the Clocks Again. Why Do We Do This to Ourselves?
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Ciattarelli Dominated in New Jersey. When It Came to Lawn Signs, That Is.
I told people on Monday that I thought Jack Ciattarelli would do better in the race for governor of New…
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3,000 Miles From Glasgow, a Town and Its Polar Bears Face the Future
OpinionSupported by Continue reading the main story3,000 Miles From Glasgow, a Town and Its Polar Bears Face the Future Nov.…
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Do Gun Rights Depend on Abortion Rights? That’s Now Up to the Supreme Court.
It might have looked like a coincidence that questions of abortion and guns both reached the Supreme Court in the…
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Republicans Are Going to Use Dog Whistles. Democrats Can’t Just Ignore Them.
The Virginia election results should shock Democrats into confronting the powerful role that racially coded attacks play in American politics.…
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Elon Musk’s Extraterrestrial Capitalism
The last week of October, Bill Gates (net worth: $138 billion) celebrated his 66th birthday in a cove off the…
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What to Do About Facebook, and What Not to Do
One of the most unsettling revelations in the cache of internal documents leaked by the former Facebook employee Frances Haugen…
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Is the Problem Facebook? Or the Internet?
Produced by ‘Sway’ The Facebook Papers and whistle-blower testimony have given us yet more insight into the company’s impact on…
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White Racial Anxiety Strikes Again
Glenn Youngkin’s defeat of Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor’s race shocked some. But it resulted from multiple factors. Democrats…