Opinion
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It Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Get Mentally Ill People the Help They Need
A few weeks before Mayor Eric Adams announced that New York would begin a big push to involuntarily hospitalize severely…
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Once Again, My Family Must Leave Afghanistan
Last September, 13 months after the Taliban takeover, my family and I flew into Kabul one morning as many of…
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A Skeptical Take on the A.I. Revolution
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ The year 2022 was jam-packed with advances in artificial intelligence, from the release of…
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Pope Benedict Wasn’t Conservative. He Was Something Much More Surprising.
“The words of a dead man,” W.H. Auden wrote in his elegy for a fellow poet, “are modified in the…
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Making America the Opposite of Great
I admit it: Like many liberals, I’m feeling a fair bit of MAGAfreude — taking some pleasure in the self-destruction…
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Kenneth Rowe, Who Defected From North Korea With His Jet, Dies at 90
Two months after the Korean War armistice, he handed America an intelligence bonanza with his headline-making flight in a Soviet-made…
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The Meaning of the Chaos in the House
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I’m a Trans Athlete. I’d Rather Be Myself Than Win.
The first time I remember feeling different from the people around me was in fourth grade. I felt like I’d…
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Why the Fringiest Fringe of the G.O.P. Now Has So Much Power Over the Party
For the first time in nearly a century, we have witnessed the stunning spectacle of a Republican Party so fractured…
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A Ritual Returns: Supreme Court Justices Will Explain Their Decisions
The Supreme Court’s recent announcement that the justices will return to their prepandemic practice of announcing their decisions in open…