Politics
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We Owe It to Nex Benedict to Do Better by Bullied Teens
There’s much we don’t know about why Nex Benedict, a nonbinary teenager in Owasso, Okla., died a day after a…
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A More Conservative Case for How to Get More Americans to Marry
As of 2021, around 25 percent of 40-year-old Americans are not married — the highest percentage ever recorded. While divorce…
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The Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law
If you attended law school at any time over the past half-century, your course in constitutional law likely followed a…
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Texas Is Right. The Tech Giants Need to Be Regulated.
On the average day, some 95 million pictures are posted on Instagram, along with 34 million videos on TikTok and…
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China Is Running Out of Lines to Cross in the Taiwan Strait
In 2020, the balance of military power in the Taiwan Strait began a gradual but profound shift in China’s favor.…
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What Is Christian Nationalism, Exactly?
If you’re alarmed by the rise of Christian nationalism, the single worst thing you can do is define it too…
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When Artists Can’t Go Home, All That’s Left Is Their Art
Pablo Picasso was among the few who stood beside Chaim Soutine’s grave as his corpse was lowered into it. It…
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Why People Fail to Notice Horrors Around Them
The miraculous history of our species is peppered with dark stories of oppression, tyranny, bloody wars, savagery, murder and genocide.…
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Baseball Is Designed to Break Your Heart
The familiar emptiness hit me in the pit of my stomach. For the second time in five years my beloved…
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It’s Not as Easy as Just Getting Biden to Drop Out
In a recent episode of his podcast, my colleague Ezra Klein made the strongest case yet for replacing President Biden…