Opinion
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Kevin McCarthy Can’t Give Republican Rebels What They Really Want
If last week’s 15 rounds of balloting for House speaker proved anything, it’s that Democrats like their congressional leaders a…
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Can We Really Have a Soft Landing?
In August 1982 I arrived in Washington to begin a year working at the White House Council of Economic Advisers.…
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Noma and the Fizzle of Too-Fine Dining
It was at Noma that I ate the most unsettling meal of my life. The most unsettling dish, I should…
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Lynette Hardaway, of Pro-Trump Duo Diamond and Silk, Dies at 51
Ms. Hardaway rose to fame with one of her sisters as a conservative media celebrity.
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The Chaos Caucus Is Now in Charge
Things are looking up for Kevin McCarthy! Last week it took 15 agonizing roll call votes spread over five days…
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Blake Hounshell, ‘On Politics’ Editor at The Times, Dies at 44
He was managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine and a top editor at Politico before overseeing The Times’s popular political…
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The Secret Lives of Words
Some time ago, I fell into conversation with a colleague about what we had been reading lately, and the person…
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I Worked at a Government Lab and Was Fired for My Climate Activism
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Shortly after the New Year, I was fired from Oak Ridge National Laboratory after urging fellow scientists…
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Robert Moller Dies at 85; Mediated Between U.N. Envoys and the City
As the U.S. liaison to some 50,000 United Nations diplomats and staff, he sought to resolve disputes on issues ranging…
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What the Insurrectionists of 2021 and 2023 Have in Common
The most talked about part of the deal Kevin McCarthy made with Republican radicals to become Speaker of the House…