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The Robert E. Lee Problem - The New York Times
The debate over flying the Confederate flag prompts another question over Southern heritage: Should we honor the Confederate general?
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The Robert E. Lee Problem
The debate over flying the Confederate flag prompts another question over Southern heritage: Should we honor the Confederate general?
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Opinion | How Cool Works in America Today
Wokeness shares cool’s rebel posture, but it is the opposite of cool in certain respects.
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What Should You Choose: Time or Money?
If you picked time, chances are, you’re a happier person for it.
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Opinion | How We Are Ruining America
College-educated Americans have become devastatingly good at making sure children of other classes can’t join their ranks.
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Opinion | Aziz Ansari: Why Trump Makes Me Scared for My Family
Jon Han “DON’T go anywhere near a mosque,” I told my mother. “Do all your prayer at home. O.K.?” “We’re not going,” she replied. I am the son of Muslim…
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Opinion | We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment
We are misnamed. We call ourselves Homo sapiens , the “wise man,” but that’s more of a boast than a description. What makes us wise? What sets us apart from…
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Opinion | France in the End of Days
Roger Cohen Paris — For some time France has been a country that does not like itself. Somewhere on the road from its humiliation in World War II to its…
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If America’s public lands were a business, the GOP would be bungling the balance sheet
If America’s public lands were a business, shareholders would be shocked by the gross negligence of some of their top executives.
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The Comforts of the Betsy DeVos War
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ben Cardin rallied against Betsy DeVos as education secretary. Al Drago/The New York Times In these distinctly abnormal times for…
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We broke the Panama Papers story. Here's how to investigate Donald Trump
We were successful because we collaborated with other journalists. Now it is time for the media to join forces once again – especially given the threat Trump poses
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Poorer men are being driven out of full-time work. Here’s why
The south-east booms while other regions stagnate, and low-paid, part-time jobs proliferate – a smarter safety net is needed to remedy growing imbalances
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How to Destroy the Business Model of Breitbart and Fake News - NYTimes.com
Matt Chase One day in late November, an earth and environmental science professor named Nathan Phillips visited Breitbart News for the first time. Mr. Phillips…
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Rumors of Hillary Clinton’s Comeback - NYTimes.com
Ben Wiseman Hillary Clinton as New York City mayor? Imagine the fun: City building inspectors start to show up daily at Trump Tower, where they find a wobbly…
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One Way Not to Be Like Trump - NYTimes.com
THE Trump era will be unpredictable in many ways. But there’s one thing that we can reasonably count on. Moderation, an ancient virtue, will be viewed with…
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Octopuses and the Puzzle of Aging - NYTimes.com
Gray Matter By PETER GODFREY-SMITH Around 2008, while snorkeling and scuba diving in my free time, I began watching the unusual group of animals known as…
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What the Alt-Right Really Means
An attendee at a Trump campaign event in New Hampshire in September. Damon Winter/The New York Times Not even those most depressed about Donald J. Trump’s…
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Yes, There Have Been Aliens
Gérard DuBois LAST month astronomers from the Kepler spacecraft team announced the discovery of 1,284 new planets, all orbiting stars outside our solar system.…
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Can Ukraine recover the assets plundered by its crooked politicians?
Since officials of the former Ukraine regime have little trust in the Russian legal system, most of their assets are located in Western or offshore jurisdictions.
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Meet the Saudi Prince of Counter-Terrorism
He’s the scourge of Al-Qaeda, but don’t expect him to support social reforms in the kingdom.
