Opinion
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Guatemala’s Corrupt Officials Train Their Sights on the Press
MEXICO CITY — When I last saw José Rubén Zamora, the owner and director of Guatemala’s leading investigative newspaper, elPeriódico,…
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Three Sentences That Could Change the World — and Your Life
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Today’s show is built around three simple sentences: “Future people count. There could be…
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Why China’s People No Longer Look Up to America
BEIJING — My generation of Chinese looked up to the United States. When I was a university student in northwestern…
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Did Democrats Just Save Civilization?
They really did it. The Inflation Reduction Act, which is mainly a climate change bill with a side helping of…
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When Sexual Liberation Is Oppressive
The conclusion of Louise Perry’s “The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century,”…
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Bolsonaro Is Afraid of Going to Jail, and He’s Right to Be
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — “I’m letting the scoundrels know,” President Jair Bolsonaro told supporters last year, “I’ll never be imprisoned!”…
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We Will All End Up Paying for Someone Else’s Beach House
A video of a North Carolina beach house being dismembered by a voracious ocean was a viral hit this spring.…
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Exercise Was the Perfect Coping Mechanism, Until It Wasn’t
When I was a junior in college, I joined the rowing team. The unthinkably expensive boats gliding down the Charles…
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Your Pandemic Puppy Was Not a Mistake
NASHVILLE — It was a Saturday night, close to midnight, when the weird little cough erupting from our dog Rascal’s…
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I Love My Students, but I Won’t Use a Gun to Protect Them
OXFORD, Miss. — Before classes start Aug. 22 at the university where I teach English, I’ll locate my new classroom,…