Opinion
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America Has No Official Language. Instead It Has Hundreds.
Nearly 400 years ago, Walloon-speaking religious refugees from near what is today roughly the French-Belgian border arrived in a Lenape-speaking…
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There Is a Secret Hamiltonian in the White House
President Biden has been called a lot of things, but Hamiltonian is not usually one of them. In spite of…
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Petra Mathers, Author Whose Children’s Stories Soared, Dies at 78
Her winsome animal characters and their comic adventures expressed universal truths and feelings, rendered in a naïve and often surrealistic…
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Fighting Hopelessness in Treating Addiction
Readers praise a column by Nicholas Kristof about an effective program.
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The Long, Strange History of ‘Manifesting’
Reality is what you make it — at least according to those who believe in manifesting, the art and quasi-spiritual…
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This Prophetic Academic Now Foresees the West’s Defeat
“If anybody in this room thinks Putin will stop at Ukraine, I assure you, he will not,” President Biden said…
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Why It’s Hard to Explain Joe Biden’s Unpopularity
Joe Biden is one of the most unpopular presidents in modern American history. In Gallup polling, his approval ratings are…
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How ‘Past Lives’ Changed My Mind About My Relationship
My most stressful moviegoing experience last year was not the mushroom cloud in “Oppenheimer” or the murder trial scenes in…
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‘Was It Feisty or Angry?’: Readers Rate the State of the Union
We asked 10 Times columnists and contributors to watch the State of the Union address on Thursday and rate President…
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Howard Hiatt, 98, Dies; Steered Public Health Toward Greater Accountability
A physician, scientist and academic, he brought together experts across disciplines to focus on the economic, political and social causes…