Opinion
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Will the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem Be Built on Confiscated Palestinian Land?
The Biden administration is doubling down on its predecessor’s reckless decision to recognize Israel’s claims to Jerusalem as its capital,…
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How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy
Launched just weeks ago, ChatGPT is already threatening to upend how we draft everyday communications like emails, college essays and…
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Will There Be a Biden Comeback?
Something unusual happened to Joe Biden this week. A reputable poll, from The Economist and YouGov, showed him with a…
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Other Dreams
But King, of course, is a more complicated figure than his sanctified image would suggest, and his body of work…
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Wonking Out: It’s Getting Harder to Be a Pessimist on Inflation
Thursday’s report on consumer prices was really good news. I mean, really, really good news. The overall Consumer Price Index…
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The New American Dream? Buying Freedom From Irritation.
When you’ve been covering a topic for a while, you see the same story lines pop up over and over.…
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Americans Are Fighting Over History While Historians Disappear
When I received my Ph.D. in history in 2013, I didn’t expect that within a decade fights over history —…
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Harry’s Fractured Fairy Tale
WASHINGTON — I am, faith and begorrah, no monarchist. Yet I found myself, over the last few years, exhausted by…
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How to Help Girls Enduring the Unendurable
NAIROBI, Kenya — She is impossibly young to have endured what she did, and what still haunts her is the…
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Why Do Documents Marked Secret Keep Showing Up in Strange Places?
There is much we still do not know about President Biden’s stash of secret documents, but one thing is painfully…