Opinion
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Carol Robles-Román, Latina Champion for Justice, Dies at 60
As a New York City deputy mayor and a lawyer for the city and state court systems, she fought for…
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America Is Losing Religious Faith
While much of the rest of the industrialized world has become more secular over the last half-century, the United States…
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What Can Replace China as a Global Economic Engine?
China has apparently told its economists to stop talking — a P.R. tourniquet to keep the bad news from bleeding…
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Fixing America’s Health Care System
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Robert Paulson, Long-Term A.L.S. Survivor, Is Dead at 86
He lived with the condition also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease much longer than most and spread the message, an…
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None Dare Call it Victory
Flation — whether in- or de- — is, other things being equal, a bad thing. Money is the economy’s unit…
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Maxie Baughan, Feared Linebacker of the 1960s, Dies at 85
A star at Georgia Tech and later in the N.F.L., he dominated his way to nine Pro Bowl selections and…
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Howard S. Becker, Who Looked at Society With a Fresh Eye, Dies at 95
A sociologist, he challenged conventional thinking on matters as diverse as deviance, art making and marijuana use, and later found…
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The Irony in the ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’
You may have heard about Oliver Anthony, a Virginia-based folk singer who has become a conservative folk hero on account…
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Live by RICO, Die by RICO
WASHINGTON — I first met Rudy Giuliani in 1986 when I was a Times reporter writing about corruption cases in…