Opinion
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Here’s the Mind-Set That’s Tearing Us Apart
The world is complicated, and our minds have limited capacity, so we create categories to help us make sense of…
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Why Does Congress Keep Playing Chicken With the Debt Ceiling?
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Let Me Tell You What It Was Like to Work at Ozy
It was 2007 and I was in some kind of a souk in Tel Aviv. A three-card monte dealer was…
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The Enduring Importance of the 1965 Immigration Act
What follows is an excerpt from my book “The Loneliest Americans,” which will be published on Oct. 12. (I also…
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When It Costs $53,000 to Vote
OpinionSupported by Continue reading the main storyWhen It Costs $53,000 to Vote Oct. 7, 2021, 12:00 p.m. ETRead in appPhotographs…
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Texas’ Toxic Heart
There are states worse than Texas — states even more regressive, states even more oppressive, redder states and madder states…
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What Killed the Blue-Collar Struggle for Social Justice
In 1998, Shannon Mulcahy’s boyfriend beat her up so badly that prosectors in Indiana decided to press charges. She hid…
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Is Texas Ready for Matthew McConaughey?
Produced by ‘Sway’ When the actor Matthew McConaughey dropped his rom-com act to pursue hard-hitting dramas, Hollywood called it a…
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The Supreme Court’s Pain — and Our Anger
In January 2001, the Supreme Court was hurting. Thirty-six days after Election Day, on Dec. 12, 2000, the justices had…
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Old Science Leads to Bad Advice for Pregnant Women, Especially During Pandemics
More than 60 years ago, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist Peter Medawar posed what has become known as the immunological paradox…