Opinion
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Who ‘Won’ Covid? It Depends How You Measure.
Twenty months ago, in July 2022, I wrote a long essay sketching what I called the “pretty brutal” endemic future…
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The Problem With Saying ‘Sex Assigned at Birth’
As you may have noticed, “sex” is out, and “sex assigned at birth” is in. Instead of asking for a…
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Could Trump Financially Ruin the G.O.P.?
By Michelle Cottle Produced by Vishakha Darbha and Jillian Weinberger The G.O.P. has a Donald Trump money problem. The former…
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Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends
Recently, the Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett spoke together publicly about how members of the court…
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Dengue Fever Is Surging and We’re Looking the Other Way
I hate mosquitoes so much that I bring my own bug repellent to parties. But in early March, on a…
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Trump’s Backers Are Determined Not to Blow It This Time Around
In a rare display of unity, more than one hundred conservative tax-exempt organizations have joined forces in support of Donald…
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How Beagles and a Fever Dream Made Rebel Wilson a Star
About five years ago, when she was 39, the actress Rebel Wilson faced a dilemma. She had just had a…
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José Andrés: Let People Eat
In the worst conditions you can imagine — after hurricanes, earthquakes, bombs and gunfire — the best of humanity shows…
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The Appalling Tactics of the ‘Free Palestine’ Movement
Last week, Susanne DeWitt, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor who later became a molecular biologist, spoke before the Berkeley, Calif., City…
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Stuck Ships and Supply-Chain Inflation
It has been a week since the Dali, a container ship, struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. It’s…