Opinion
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Fifteen Years After 2008, Why Do Banks Keep Failing?
The weekend rescue of uninsured depositors in Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank was absolutely essential and absolutely frustrating. We…
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Tucker Carlson Is No Less Dangerous as a Hypocrite
Gail Collins: Bret, we have all kinds of deeply important issues to tackle. But let’s start with Tucker Carlson. We’ve…
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Elizabeth Warren: We Can Prevent More Bank Failures
No one should be mistaken about what unfolded over the past few days in the U.S. banking system: These recent…
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Will Conservative Justices Ignore Their Own Limit on the Supreme Court’s Power?
Much of the public debate following the recent oral arguments before the Supreme Court in a pair of challenges to…
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My State’s Anti-Drag Campaign Is Beyond Ludicrous
NASHVILLE — Soon after we moved to Nashville in 1987, I started hearing stories about a brilliant Belle Meade man…
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And the Best Acting Oscar Goes to … a Man and a Woman. Why?
For over three hours on Sunday night, we watched beautiful people pass golden statuettes back and forth while bestowing awards…
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Jesus Alou, Youngest in Trio of Baseball-Playing Brothers, Dies at 80
He and his brothers, Felipe and Matty, were the only three brothers in major league history to play together in…
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What Newspapers Can Do for a Democracy’s Wandering Spirits
Next week I’m giving a talk on journalism and democracy, and I thought I would use the newsletter this weekend…
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Here’s Why the Science Is Clear That Masks Work
The debate over masks’ effectiveness in fighting the spread of the coronavirus intensified recently when a respected scientific nonprofit said…
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Homesteaders, Libertarians, Back-to-the-Landers — They Adore Him. Can He Change the G.O.P.?
The self-styled “greenest member” of Congress is a Republican from rural Kentucky. He lives in an off-the-grid home he built…