Opinion
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My Great-Grandfather’s Life in the Great Depression
This year, on the Vermont side of my family, a box of daily journals came to light after being packed…
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Bridgette Wimberly, Playwright and Librettist, Dies at 68
She had success with a play about abortion in 2001, and in 2015 wrote the libretto for the opera “Charlie…
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Ian Tyson, Revered Canadian Folk Singer, Dies at 89
A rancher for most of his life, he began his music career as half of the duo Ian and Sylvia…
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Once an Open Sewer, New York Harbor Now Teems With Life. Thank the Clean Water Act.
Fifty years ago, Congress voted to override President Richard Nixon’s veto of the Clean Water Act. It has proved to…
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The 2022 High School Yearbook of American Politics
It wasn’t exactly a feel-good year. With brutal inflation, the war in Ukraine, periodic pandemic surges, gun massacres and the…
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How Low Can Airlines Go?
My traditionally cheery holiday social media feeds, usually populated by adorable children viciously ripping open presents like tiny animals, were…
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Have I Been Good or Bad This Year? Here’s Some New Math.
Here we are at the end of another year, and as humans are wont to do around this time, I’ve…
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The Meter Eats First
GLASGOW — I grew up in a string of dilapidated slum rentals, project housing and homeless hostels. I grew up…
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Europeans, How Is the Energy Crisis Affecting You?
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in the early spring, many people in Western Europe have watched their energy bills climb to…
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Netanyahu’s New Ministers Have Very Strict Ideas About Who Is a Jew
For years, there has been a growing gap between Israelis and American Jews when it comes to Israel’s policies toward…