Opinion
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Mass Tech Layoffs? Just Another Day in the Corporate Blender.
Silicon Valley, home of so many technological and workplace innovations, is rolling out another one: the unnecessary layoff. After shedding…
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It Hurts to See Biden Imitating Trump on Trade
Waving the flag as he heads into election season, President Biden is opposing the acquisition of U.S. Steel, a once-great…
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My Country Is Witnessing a Messy, Buffoonish End of Rule
On Dec. 31, 1980, Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first president of Senegal, announced that he was leaving power. At 74,…
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The Potency of Trump’s ‘Lost Cause’ Mythmaking
At an Ohio rally this month, Donald Trump saluted the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, calling…
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When We See the Climate More Clearly, What Will We Do?
This month MethaneSAT, an $88 million, 770-pound surveillance satellite conceived by the Environmental Defense Fund and designed at Harvard to…
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A Big Step Toward a Fairer Housing Market
Some overcharges are right there for everybody to see. One of them is how much Americans have to pay to…
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Comparing the Trump and Biden Years
More from our inbox: 5 Nobel Laureates, on Building an ‘Extremely Large Telescope’Radiation Exposure Killed My DadEnd the FilibusterHow to…
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When African Women Are Raped, Where Is the Outrage?
In the summer of 2023, while I was negotiating the price of a pair of cloud-shaped wire sunglasses, a man…
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The Other Safety Crisis in New York’s Subways
A few months before Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered some 1,000 members of the state police and National Guard to patrol…
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David Brooks: Resist the Pull of ‘Us vs. Them’ Thinking
By David Brooks Produced by Vishakha Darbha The New York Times Opinion columnist David Brooks worries that the United States…