Opinion
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Will 2024 Be a Vaccine Election?
Will Republicans once again nominate Donald Trump for president? Or will they turn to Ron DeSantis instead? I have no…
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Frances Hesselbein, Progressive Leader of the Girl Scouts, Dies at 107
Widely cited as a model of leadership, she took the scouts out of “the Betty Crocker era,” halting a membership…
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Alice Teirstein, Who Introduced Youths to Dance, Dies at 93
She taught for decades at the Fieldston School and founded a free summer dance program open to all students in…
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Billie Moore, Coach of Champions in Women’s Basketball, Dies at 79
She was the first coach to lead two different schools to titles in the 1970s, when the women’s college game…
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An Unvaccinated Military Puts Our National Security at Risk
Ninety-eight percent of the U.S. military is vaccinated against Covid-19. That success is due, in large part, to a summer…
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A.I. Will Change Education. Don’t Let It Worsen Inequality.
Plato mourned the invention of the alphabet, worried that the use of text would threaten traditional memory-based arts of rhetoric.…
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Once You See the Truth About Cars, You Can’t Unsee It
In American consumer lore, the automobile has always been a “freedom machine” and liberty lies on the open road. “Americans…
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Why Do We Keep Destroying the Homes of The World’s Creatures? Dinner
The earth is in the midst of the worst mass extinction since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million…
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She Was Supposed to Be China’s Future. After “Zero Covid,” She Wants to Leave.
Produced by ‘First Person’ When Julie Geng moved back to China in 2019 after attending high school and college in…
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When Allen Ginsberg Came to Town
Let’s take a moment to contemplate President Biden signing that new law requiring federal recognition of same-sex marriage. After all,…