Opinion
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No, Australia Is Not Actually an Evil Dictatorship
SYDNEY, Australia — Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida who has made a name for himself as an extreme…
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How to Build a Better ‘Made in America’
Globalization may have lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, but to its critics, it has long been…
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Robocalls Are Not Even the Worst of It
I am happy to inform you that the federal government is revving up the war on robocalls. I checked on…
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Texas, Harbinger of Doom
When Jim Crow was originally established, it spread from state to state like a contagion, each subsequent state taking lessons…
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What if You Had Abortion Pills in Your Medicine Cabinet?
In 2018, the Austria-based nonprofit Aid Access began offering Americans a new service: For the first time, pregnant people could…
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Jon Gruden’s Emails Shocked Me. They Shouldn’t Have.
In emails written between 2011 and 2018, Jon Gruden, then an ESPN analyst and past and future N.F.L. head coach,…
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Dave Chappelle’s Brittle Ego
We generally have the same debates about comedy over and over. Let’s address those upfront: Art should be made without…
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Here Are the Cool Economic Tools that Just Got a Nobel
I have a T-shirt that I have never put on because I don’t deserve to wear it. It says “Master…
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A Racial Reckoning Is Underway in Theater. Where Is the Gender Reckoning?
The American theater is undergoing a long-overdue transformation. This past year has been awash in demands from artists of color…
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It Isn’t That Easy to Just Give People What They Want
Over the 20-year period from 1970 to 1990, whites, especially those without college degrees, defected en masse from the Democratic…