Opinion
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How R. Kelly Got Away With It
R. Kelly believed he could lie about his sexual predation and bury the allegations against him with an endless supply…
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What’s the Least Bad Way to Cool the Planet?
How to cool the planet? The energy infrastructure that powers our civilization must be rebuilt, replacing fossil fuels with carbon-free…
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What if Disability Rights Were for Everyone?
In the fight between red state governors and the federal government over measures to control the pandemic, the Biden administration…
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‘I Don’t Want to Hit My Children. I Don’t Want to Hit Anybody.’
When I was a young teenager, I was uncontrollable, rebellious. My father believed in corporal punishment, sanctioned by the evangelical…
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Are We Too Burned Out to Defend Roe v. Wade?
This Saturday, there will be demonstrations across the country to protest Texas’ crowdsourced abortion ban and the Supreme Court’s refusal…
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I Know This Is Crazy, but Maybe We Should Live Under Majority Rule
There are 51 votes — the Senate Democratic caucus plus Vice President Kamala Harris — to raise the debt limit…
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Rapid Tests Are the Answer to Living With Covid-19
In Germany, you can buy a rapid Covid-19 test at the grocery store for one euro (a little more than…
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We Know What Facebook Knew, and When It Knew It. Now What?
Two weeks ago, The Wall Street Journal published “The Facebook Files,” a damning series based on a cache of leaked…
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‘We’ve Become Too Complicated’: Where Eric Adams Thinks Democrats Went Wrong
In July, Eric Adams narrowly won the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York, making him the odds-on favorite to…
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Britain Is Heading Into a Nightmarish Winter
LONDON — Long lines outside gas stations. Panicked drivers fighting one another as the pumps run dry. Soldiers deployed to…