Politics
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$4.2 Million Homes in California
A Mediterranean-style house in Beverly Hills, a desert retreat in Pioneertown and a Spanish-style home in San Francisco.
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What’s a Little Hyperbole Among Friends?
Gail Collins: So Bret, Donald Trump gets a roughly $355 million fine for fibbing about his fortune. Too much? Too…
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The Future of Medicine Is Unfolding Before Us. Are We Nurturing It?
On Jan. 8, 2020, as I was parking my car, I got a long-awaited phone call from one of my…
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It’s Not Just Wages. Retailers Are Mistreating Workers in a More Insidious Way.
Back in 2018, with an eye to writing a novel about low-wage work in America, I got a job at…
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The Extradition of Julian Assange Threatens Press Freedoms
Fourteen years ago, at a human rights conference in Oslo, I met Julian Assange. From the moment I encountered the…
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We Can Still Resist a Pipeline to Hell
Earlier this month, the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company announced its intention to build the South’s largest gas pipeline in…
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We Ukrainians Are Fighting to Be Free
It usually happens in the middle of the night or at dawn. Russians seem to like to kill the defenseless…
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When a New Condo Building Has Problems, Who Pays to Fix Them?
Typically, condo owners are responsible for funding repairs to building systems. But if it’s a construction defect, that changes the…
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William Beecher, Who Revealed Secret Cambodia Bombing, Dies at 90
His New York Times scoop enraged the Nixon White House, which ordered a tap on his phone. He later won…
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The Unflinching Empathy I Learned as a Novelist Is What the World Needs
“Write down a phrase you find abhorrent — something you yourself would never say.” My students looked startled but they…