Opinion
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Why Televising the Trump Trial Is a Bad Idea
As the indictments against former President Donald Trump multiply, TV and print media commentators as well as members of Congress…
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India Is on the Brink
Indian social media is a brutal place, a window on the everyday hatred and violence that has come to colonize…
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On Dates, I Now Look for Climate Compatibility
The day that wildfire smoke triggered the fire alarms in our Portland, Ore., apartment, I looked at my then-boyfriend and…
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A Brief and Futile Argument in Defense of the Incandescent Bulb
When Thomas Edison was working on the incandescent lamp in 1879, he purportedly said, “We are striking it big in…
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It’s August. Californians Are Still Skiing. Don’t Ask.
This weekend, while I squeeze into a thick winter wet suit for a cold-water surf in foggy San Francisco —…
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Dog Parks Are Great for People. Too Bad They’re Terrible for Dogs.
For urban dog owners with a live-wire canine bouncing off the apartment walls, an enclosed dog park can feel like…
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Henri Konan Bédié, Ivory Coast President Deposed in a Coup, Dies at 89
As a longtime power broker he helped make his West African country an economic dynamo, but in office he fomented…
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Coup-Coup-Ca-Choo, Trump-Style
WASHINGTON — The man who tried to overthrow the government he was running was held Thursday by the government he…
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The Most Important Trial in U.S. History Should Be Televised
The only issue that Americans on all sides of our vast political divide seem to agree on is that we…
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The Normal Paths to Beating Trump Are Closing
In the quest to escape Donald Trump’s dominance of American politics, there have been two camps: normalizers and abnormalizers. The…