Opinion
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Will Glasgow Be the Climate Breakthrough We Need?
The jawboning has been going on for nearly a third of a century. It started back in 1992. Delegates from…
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A Trove of Intelligence Reports Reveal New York’s Fight Against Vaccine Disinformation
For nearly a year now, a small team of officials from City Hall and the public health department have pored…
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How Could I Ever Love Michigan State?
I hate Michigan State. I hate its football team, its basketball team, its volleyball team, its campus. I hate its…
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Spooky Door Signs for Very Weird Times
Nathaniel Russell is an artist living and working in Indianapolis.
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Reform New York City’s Board of Elections Now
If you built a laboratory solely to concoct the most inept, opaque and self-dealing election board imaginable, you would have…
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How I Became a Science Experiment
Trust the science. That was the mantra that many people repeated in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic — an…
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Why We Should Talk About What Kyrsten Sinema Is Wearing
I spent the past week in Nashville, where I’ve been reporting a story and doing background for a book project.…
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We Need Beauty as Much as Light and Air
I am in the kitchen preparing my graduate seminar on the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas when I come upon a…
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A To-Do List for Eric Adams
Barring political cataclysm, Eric Leroy Adams, a former police captain turned Democratic politician, will become New York City’s next mayor.…
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I’m Done With the Costumes That Hid the ‘Monster’ Beneath
I wish I could remember the costume that saved me. In my imagination, it’s a volcano of lace and furbelows,…