Opinion
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Israel Is Giving Hamas What It Wants
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Oct. 7 was Israel’s Sept. 11. That’s been the refrain. I fear that analogy…
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Are There Lessons for Israel From America’s Response to 9/11?
If you compare the massacres carried out by Hamas in Israel with the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as…
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Exxon Mobil’s Pioneer Acquisition Is a Direct Threat to Democracy
Last week, Exxon Mobil agreed to buy Pioneer Natural Resources for $59.5 billion, in a move widely expected to set…
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Netanyahu Led Us to Catastrophe. He Must Go.
“How could this happen?” we asked one another, neighbors in pajamas suddenly gathered in the not quite safety of the…
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Invading Gaza Now Is a Mistake
Rage is not a strategy. Israel has a right — and indeed a responsibility — to protect its people, recover…
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Soft Landing, Here We Come?
Until quite recently there was a near consensus among forecasters that the U.S. economy was headed for a recession. In…
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Carla Bley, Jazz Composer, Arranger and Provocateur, Dies at 87
Her music, which ranged from chamber miniatures to blaring fanfares, was suffused with a slyly subversive attitude.
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President Biden’s Finest Hour
This column doesn’t always abound with praise for President Biden and his administration. This week’s is an exception. On Oct.…
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Roland Griffiths, Who Led a Renaissance in Psychedelics, Dies at 77
The drugs had been the third rail of scientific inquiry. But in a landmark study, he saw them as a…
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Hamas and the Moral Failure of Our Institutions of Higher Learning
We have failed. When a coalition of 34 student organizations at Harvard can say that they “hold the Israeli regime…