Opinion
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‘Music Speaks to Some Deep Need Among Humans’
More from our inbox: Will Politicians Accept the Election Results?Honoring the DeadFear of CrimeA research team that comprised musicologists, psychologists,…
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Our Fathers Marched With M.L.K. Here’s What They Would Say to Activists Today.
On March 9, 1965, at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther…
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Why Children Are Missing More School Now
The raw data looks inarguably bad: The share of American children missing at least 10 percent of school days nearly…
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The Day My Old Church Canceled Me Was a Very Sad Day
This week, the leaders of the Presbyterian Church in America will gather in Richmond, Va., for their annual General Assembly.…
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A Promise to Grads With ‘No Promise’
It’s high school graduation season. Time to cheer the teenage achievers (especially the overachievers) and send them off to campus…
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The Unabomber, Me and the Poisoned Myth of the American West
On June 10 of last year, Ted Kaczynski, the homegrown terrorist known as the Unabomber, was found dead in his…
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No, Byron Donalds, Jim Crow Didn’t Create Stronger Black Families
At an event in Philadelphia promoting Donald Trump and the Republican Party on Tuesday, Representative Byron Donalds of Florida made…
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An Object Lesson From Covid on How to Destroy Public Trust
Big chunks of the history of the Covid pandemic were rewritten over the last month or so in a way…
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This Glorious Celebration Shows What Border Communities Can Be
The sky was muddy gray when I arrived at the Sams Memorial Stadium parking lot on a cool February afternoon.…
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The Woes of Donald Trump Will Never Rise to the Level of Public Tragedy
When a Manhattan jury found Donald J. Trump guilty, it should have sent shock waves through the nation. Yet, though…