Opinion
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Kindness in the Time of Cicadapocalypse
After more than a decade sipping tree sap underground, as many as a trillion cicadas are now emerging en masse…
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Biden Underestimates How Much Black Americans Care About This Issue
Black voters will not only be a driving force in the 2024 elections; they will most likely be the driving…
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America’s Trails Are a Wonder, and They Need Our Help
As dawn broke on a fall day in 2020 over the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, a crew…
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Exploring the World Beyond Queens
Shariff Bukari, 25, gravitated toward math and science as a child. One of his dream careers was paleontology, which combined…
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Foster Care and Child Welfare
Readers discuss a guest essay about removing children from troubled homes.
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‘Artificial Intelligence’? No, Collective Intelligence.
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ A.I.-generated art has flooded the internet, and a lot of it is derivative, even…
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John Koerner, Bluesman Who Inspired a Young Bob Dylan, Dies at 85
A spindly guitarist nicknamed Spider, Mr. Koerner was Mr. Dylan’s first friend in the scruffy world of Minneapolis bohemia where…
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Biden’s Chance to Do the Right Thing in Gaza
In a speech in Warsaw two years ago, President Biden declared that “the great battle for freedom” is one “between…
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Want to Better Understand America? Consider All-You-Can-Eat Shrimp.
The great economist George Stigler wrote a paper called “The Cost of Subsistence” that calculated the minimum cost of food…
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Fred Roos, Casting Director and Coppola Collaborator, Dies at 89
Widely considered to have the best eye for talent in Hollywood, he shared the best-picture Oscar with Francis Ford Coppola…