Opinion
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Election Day Silver Linings!
Walking to the polls on Election Day, I suddenly had a vision of all my neighbors trying to break out…
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Youngkin’s Victory in Virginia Is a Warning. It’s Also a Roadmap.
In the first statewide elections since Donald Trump’s defeat, Republicans appear to have won the governor’s race in Virginia, as…
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Memo to Republicans: This Is How You Lose Gracefully
Glenn Youngkin’s victory over Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor’s race surprised many people in a state that has been…
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Trump in the Spirit Over Trump in the Flesh
What candidates don’t do can have as much impact on an election as what they do, and Glenn Youngkin’s victory…
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We Can Now See the Playbook for Overturning Roe v. Wade
After Monday’s Supreme Court oral arguments, the writing seems to be on the wall for Senate Bill 8, the Texas…
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Republicans Schooled the Left in Virginia
Watching Terry McAuliffe stumble to defeat in a state that Joe Biden won by 10 points exactly one year ago…
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Michelle Wu Is Neither White Nor Male. She Was Elected Mayor of Boston.
BOSTON — Time to retire the tired old tropes about Brahmin swells, Irish ward heelers and the petty parochialism that…
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The ‘Third Rail of American Politics’ Is Still Electrifying
Although public polling on immigration shows a strong shift to the left, survey responses in that vein mask a far…
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Should Classic Rock Songs Be Toppled Like Confederate Statues?
A long, long time ago — I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. “American Pie,”…
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Why Do We Still Change Clocks Twice a Year?
Produced by ‘The Argument’ On Nov. 7, most of us will fall back an hour and restart the decades-old discussion…