Opinion
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The Jan. 6 Report Is Out. Now the Real Work Begins.
Much attention this week has focused on the Jan. 6 committee’s criminal referrals. But in its report, released on Thursday,…
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Did the Mother of Young Adult Literature Identify as a Man?
Louisa May Alcott balked when her editor asked her to write a book for girls. “Never liked girls or knew…
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How Would You Prove That God Performed a Miracle?
Josh Brown directs the program in neuroscience at Indiana University Bloomington. He has published dozens of articles on topics like…
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This Was the Year Everything Changed in Germany
BERLIN — Winter is here, and Germany is ready. After worries that the country would have to resort to energy…
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Why Dickens Haunts Us
WASHINGTON — I had always been a bah humbug sort of person about Christmas. It seemed like a season of…
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Thom Bell, a Force Behind the Philadelphia Soul Sound, Dies at 79
As a songwriter, arranger and producer, he brought sophistication and melodic inventiveness to hits by the Delfonics, the Spinners and…
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Americans Are Realizing Tesla Isn’t the Only Electric Car
Not long ago, Tesla’s electric vehicles were far and away the best on the market. If you wanted a stylish,…
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Why Jesus Loved Friendship
The enduring significance of Christmas is that it represents perhaps the most distinctive feature of the Christian faith — the…
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The Ambivalence of Advent
Advent is a season of half-light. The days are short, the night encroaches, twilight seems to start just after noon.…
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Russia Is Starting to Feel Squeezed by Sanctions
Vladimir Milov, a Russian opposition politician who favors strong sanctions against Russia to stop the war in Ukraine, asked me…