Opinion
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Donald Trump Is Not Above the Law
Over the course of this summer, the nation has been transfixed by the House select committee’s hearings on the events…
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What Democrats Should Do if They Somehow Win in November
Republicans are still favored to gain seats in the midterm elections, but not as favored as you might have thought.…
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Let’s Stop Paying for Wildlife Conservation Through Gun Sales
Regardless of whether they hunt, gun buyers have long underwritten efforts to conserve and restore American landscapes for hunting with…
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The Pernicious Myth of Maternal Instinct
Around the time that Mimi Niles became a mother, an upstairs neighbor in her New York City apartment building had…
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Student Debt Relief Versus the Scaremongers
On Wednesday, President Biden announced a plan to reduce most students’ debt by $10,000, with lower-income students eligible for twice…
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Why Your Social Life Is Not What It Should Be
One day Nicholas Epley was commuting by train to his office at the University of Chicago. As a behavioral scientist…
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The Creep of History
Last week, the historian James Sweet found himself in the middle of one of the confusing messes that pop up…
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‘A Stirring of Democratic Hearts’: Three Writers Discuss a Transformed Midterm Landscape
Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted an online conversation with Molly Jong-Fast, the writer of the “Wait, What?” newsletter…
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We Might Never Know How Much the Internet Is Hiding From Us
The internet is the most comprehensive compendium of human knowledge ever assembled, but is its size a feature or a…
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War Stole My Mother’s Dream. 30 Years Later, She Returns to It.
OpinionSupported by Continue reading the main storyWar Stole My Mother’s Dream. 30 Years Later, She Returns to It. Aug. 25,…