Opinion
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Brazen Is the Order of the Day at Facebook
Would I like to write about anything else in tech except Facebook? I would. Can I write about anything else…
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Europe Tried to Seal Itself Off. It Didn’t Work.
In the vast primeval forest that lies between Poland and Belarus, European bison graze under ancient trees alongside refugees, weak…
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A Scary Energy Winter Is Coming. Don’t Blame the Greens.
Every so often the tectonic geopolitical plates that hold up the world economy suddenly shift in ways that can rattle…
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An Ethically Challenged Presidency
There should be little doubt that President Biden was not being truthful when, days after the Taliban’s victory, he told…
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Facebook Was Down for a Few Hours. Should It Go Away Forever?
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Ozy Shows That Serious Black Media Needs a New Business Model
Like many others in the media business, I couldn’t look away from the drama that unfolded last week around Carlos…
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Pride and Prejudice and Asset Prices
The Federal Reserve and its counterparts abroad slashed interest rates in the face of the 2008 financial crisis and have…
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Up in Arms Over a Pronoun
Feedback on my newsletter about the embrace of “they” as a gender-neutral pronoun referring to a single person — Joel…
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The Once and Future Threat of Trump
Last fall, before the November election, Barton Gellman wrote an essay for The Atlantic sketching out a series of worst-case…
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How to Do the Most Good
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Do we actually know how much good our charitable donations do? This is the…