Opinion
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The Sidney Awards
’Tis the season to detach yourself from the news cycle and look for the bigger trends and the deeper human…
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Unlikely Parallels in a Year of Momentous Deaths
The deaths of luminaries like Queen Elizabeth II and Bill Russell did not necessarily surprise. Others, though, inscrutably departed seemingly…
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Pelé Will Live Forever
SAÕ PAULO, Brazil — Pelé once confessed that he had long been troubled by a conundrum, one he’d only be…
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Learning From the Southwest Airlines Fiasco
Americans are furious with Southwest Airlines, and understandably so. Severe weather always disrupts air travel, but Southwest was the only…
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Maybe the Southwest Debacle Is the Disaster We Needed
It’s the holiday season, and terrible weather is causing airlines to make a cascade of cancellations across the country. One…
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The Next House Speaker Should Come From Outside the House
It may come as a surprise to many Americans to learn that the Constitution does not require the House speaker…
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As a Researcher, I Study the Health of Palestinians. It’s Time to Pay Attention.
This year, during the lead-up to the Israeli elections, I returned to my hometown, Nablus, in the occupied West Bank,…
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Why Bother to Make Resolutions if We Don’t Keep Them?
If resolution makers wanted a patron saint, they could do worse than Samuel Johnson (1709-84), a lifelong resolver and by…
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Clutter Is Good for You
Several years before she died, my mother began sending me things — ostensibly significant objects. These included expected items like…
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Poetry Died 100 Years Ago This Month
Like many millennials, I was educated, if that’s the right word for it, on the internet. The online music critics…