Opinion
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Why Are We Gambling With America’s Future?
Over the past few decades, in a surge of bipartisan national self-confidence, the federal government has borrowed a lot of…
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Peter Schey, Tenacious Lawyer Who Defended Migrant Rights, Dies at 77
He won the right to services like school and health care for people illegally crossing the border into the U.S.…
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Penny Simkin, ‘Mother of the Doula Movement,’ Dies at 85
As a childbirth educator and maternal advocate, she promoted a profession that provides comfort to women giving birth and offers…
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The Teen Trend of Sexual Choking
More from our inbox: Emergency Abortions and the Supreme CourtOur Father, Who Led Columbia, Would Be Saddened TodayHiring DiscriminationTrump’s Own…
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Michael Cuscuna, Who Unearthed Hidden Jazz Gems, Dies at 75
Possibly the most prolific archival record producer in history, he was a founder of the Mosaic label, which became the…
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For the Sake of Democracy, Celebrate Mike Johnson
We’ve seen movies aplenty in which a deeply flawed protagonist, someone we’d pretty much given up hope on, has a…
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Trump’s Act Was Getting Stale. Being a Courtroom Victim Is Just What He Needed.
For the next several weeks, the presumptive Republican nominee for president will be spending his days in a New York…
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You’ve Been Wronged. That Doesn’t Make You Right.
We are living in a golden age of aggrievement. No matter who you are or what your politics, whatever your…
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Closing the Gap Between Nature and the Self
By Margaret Renkl and Ada Limón Produced by Kristina Samulewski In a time of climate crisis, can poetry help us…
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Speaking Russian in America
In January 2022, I was planning a summer trip to Ukraine and Russia for my 4-year-old son and me. I…