Opinion
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Will There Be a Biden Comeback?
Something unusual happened to Joe Biden this week. A reputable poll, from The Economist and YouGov, showed him with a…
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Other Dreams
But King, of course, is a more complicated figure than his sanctified image would suggest, and his body of work…
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Wonking Out: It’s Getting Harder to Be a Pessimist on Inflation
Thursday’s report on consumer prices was really good news. I mean, really, really good news. The overall Consumer Price Index…
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The New American Dream? Buying Freedom From Irritation.
When you’ve been covering a topic for a while, you see the same story lines pop up over and over.…
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Americans Are Fighting Over History While Historians Disappear
When I received my Ph.D. in history in 2013, I didn’t expect that within a decade fights over history —…
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Harry’s Fractured Fairy Tale
WASHINGTON — I am, faith and begorrah, no monarchist. Yet I found myself, over the last few years, exhausted by…
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How to Help Girls Enduring the Unendurable
NAIROBI, Kenya — She is impossibly young to have endured what she did, and what still haunts her is the…
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Why Do Documents Marked Secret Keep Showing Up in Strange Places?
There is much we still do not know about President Biden’s stash of secret documents, but one thing is painfully…
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A Chance to Make Progress on Climate Change Now
South Africa generates 80 percent of its electricity by burning coal, more than any other industrialized nation. Some 200,000 people…
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The Not-So-Great News About Lower Inflation
The news that consumer prices fell in December from November — yes, monthly inflation was negative — was not as…