Opinion
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These Young Singers Still Carry the Torch of Black Freedom
NASHVILLE — In an account of her years as assistant director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Ella Sheppard, a gifted…
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What America Owes Haitian Asylum Seekers
Last month, the Biden administration announced that it had cleared a makeshift tent camp where thousands of Haitians had congregated…
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Want to Change the World? First, Be Still.
When I was in college, I met a chain-smoking Franciscan priest who changed my life. He was a chaplain at…
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If Men Needed the Abortions …
On Thursday, three women of color — sitting members of Congress — testified before the House Committee on Oversight and…
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Don’t Let Amazon Eat the Film Industry
In the 1930s and ’40s, five major Hollywood studios dominated the film industry and tried to lock up distribution and…
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I Used to Look Up to Elizabeth Holmes
When I was a student at Harvard in the early aughts, Mark Zuckerberg and some other classmates dropped out to…
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Protests Are Taking Over the World. What’s Driving Them?
September was turbulent: More than 200 Australians arrested during citywide protests and a temporary no-fly zone declared over Melbourne. Rubber…
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What Happens When the Last Jew Leaves Afghanistan
The Last Jew of Afghanistan is gone, and everyone is glad to be rid of him. Zebulon Simentov, Afghanistan’s only…
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How Our Discussion of Race Becomes Distorted
The other day, one of my daughters, who’s 9, asked me what diversity was. She’d picked it out as a…
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How African Countries Can Overcome the ‘Resource Curse’
Africa is home to eight of the world’s 15 least-diversified economies, according to an International Monetary Fund analysis of the…