Opinion
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Work? ‘I Think It Numbs You Somehow’
OpinionSupported by Continue reading the main storyWork? ‘I Think It Numbs You Somehow’ Is work working for us? Nov. 2,…
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What Makes Change Possible?
Everyone learns, by the end of high school, that the United States had a constitution before the Constitution — the…
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The Supreme Court Might Claim Power Over Gun Carry Laws. That Would Be a Mistake.
The Supreme Court will soon decide whether Americans have a constitutional right to carry loaded concealed weapons in public and…
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Lincoln Broke Our Constitution. Then He Remade It.
Who created the Constitution we have today? As a law professor, I’ve always thought the best answer was “the framers”:…
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The Life-Altering Differences Between White and Black Debt
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Public policy in the United States often overlooks wealth. We tend to design, debate…
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A Quietly Big Idea on How We Think About Homeless People
Are the unhoused a “people”? If the answer is yes, then don’t they deserve equal protection under the law? These…
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No, Vaccine Mandates Aren’t an Attack on Freedom
The Delta surge in Covid-19 seems to be receding. That’s good news, and not just because fewer people are dying.…
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We Should All Know Less About Each Other
In 2017, after the shock of Brexit and then Donald Trump’s election, Christopher Bail, a professor of sociology and public…
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How the ‘Green Wave’ Movement Did the Unthinkable in Latin America
While access to safe abortion is threatened from the United States to China, the “Marea Verde,” or Green Wave, women’s…
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Stopping Climate Change Doesn’t Need to Be Altruistic
One of the approximately 700 things that make climate change a knotty problem is that fighting it requires people living…