Opinion | The Power of Petty Personal Rage
Straw police, hamburger paranoia and the state of the right.
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Opinion | Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office
Hard work and discipline help girls outperform boys in class, but that advantage disappears in the work force. Is school the problem?
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Kamala Harris’s Disappointing Economics
Does she know Arnold Kling? Photographer: Al Drago/Getty Images North America Photographer: Al Drago/Getty Images North America One of the worst tendencies in…
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The U.S.-China Cold War Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better
Goodbye to good relations. Photographer: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images Photographer: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images We are in the midst of a new Cold War ,…
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What Advocates of Legalizing Pot Don’t Want You to Know
The wave toward legalization ignores the serious health risks of marijuana.
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What Straight-A Students Get Wrong
If you always succeed in school, you’re not setting yourself up for success in life.
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Expect America and Europe to Matter Less in 2019
China is paving the road to the future. Photographer: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images AsiaPac Photographer: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images AsiaPac As 2018 comes to a…
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Trump’s Appointment of the Acting Attorney General Is Unconstitutional
The president is evading the requirement to seek the Senate’s advice and consent for the nation’s chief law enforcement officer and the person who will oversee the Mueller investigation.
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Opinion | The New Socialists
Why the pitch from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders resonates in 2018.
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Opinion | What Should Congress Ask Zuckerberg?
Lawmakers yelling at Mark Zuckerberg will look like progress but amount to nothing.
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Is Loneliness a Health Epidemic?
Social disconnection is a serious matter. But let’s not whip up a panic.
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Garrison Keillor: A man walks into a bar in Oregon
I hung out in Eugene, Ore., last week where it rains every day so the air is fresh and clean. Old people my age don't care for rain so Eugene is not a retirement...
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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…
