Opinion
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Ted Morgan, 91, Dies; Pulitzer-Winning Writer Straddled Two Cultures
An esteemed journalist and author, he was born to a French count but later shed his aristocratic roots (and name)…
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Ireland Thought It Was Immune to the Far Right. It Was Wrong.
A little after 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 23, a man stabbed three children and a woman outside a primary school…
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Social Media Is a Mess. Government Meddling Would Only Make It Worse.
This term, the Supreme Court will reconsider America’s laissez-faire approach to regulating the internet, and in doing so it will…
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The Supreme Court Can Stop Trump’s Delay Game
This is a good week to remember that, in the hours after Senate Republicans refused to convict Donald Trump for…
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Liz Cheney’s Checkered History
Deep in her new book, “Oath and Honor,” Liz Cheney points out that the likeness of Clio, the Greek muse…
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The Truth in ‘American Fiction’
In my nearly three decades as an editor, author and former editor of The New York Times Book Review, a…
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America’s Thirst for Authoritarianism
Around the world, authoritarianism is ascendant and democracy is in decline. A 2022 report from the International Institute for Democracy…
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American Students Outperformed the Rest of the World During the Pandemic
By now, you’ve probably registered the alarm that pandemic learning loss has produced a “lost generation” of American students. This…
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How to Hold an Anticapitalist Art Auction
A 37-year-old artist who calls himself Penny Pinch says he’s an anticapitalist, but not the angry kind. His paintings feature…
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Training People to Think of Themselves as Weak Is a Form of Abuse
The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been roundly condemned for arguing…