Opinion
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Stephen Adams, Who Made Yale Music School Tuition-Free, Dies at 86
A billionaire businessman and a late-blooming piano aficionado, he set a record with the anonymous $100 million gift that he…
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Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90
He helped pioneer a branch of the field that exposed hard-wired mental biases in people’s economic behavior. The work led…
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Biden Is Breaking Campaign Rule No. 1. And It Just Might Work.
Should we have trillionaires? Should we even have billionaires? According to at least one recent analysis, the economy is on…
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One Purple State Is ‘Testing the Outer Limits of MAGAism’
On Nov. 5, North Carolina will determine whether a slate of Republican candidates who believe that the 2020 election was…
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Has Liberalism Found a Coherent Sexual Ethics?
The death of Hugh Hefner and the dawn of the #MeToo era, coinciding in the autumn of 2017, seemed to…
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How I Found Hope in Standardized Tests
This month, the University of Texas at Austin joined the wave of selective universities reversing Covid era test-optional admissions policies,…
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The Case for More Insults
By Rafi Kohan Produced by Sophia Alvarez Boyd It’s easy to dismiss competitive language, also known as trash talk, as…
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Biden Loves Ireland. It Doesn’t Love Him Back.
If there’s one thing Irish people know about President Biden, it’s that he’s one of us. He says so all…
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Who Is Blowing Up Russia?
There are two plausible hypotheses regarding Friday’s terrorist attack at a concert hall outside Moscow, in which at least 139…
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Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85
His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be…