Politics
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Our Semicolons, Ourselves
When I go through students’ papers and flag the misplaced modifiers, note the clichés or explain that a 15-sentence paragraph…
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‘Home Alone 2’ Fans Can Buy This Four-Story Slice of Movie History
OK, the Manhattan brownstone, now on the market for $6.7 million, wasn’t actually in the 1992 film. But it is…
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Help! It’s Almost 2024 and Travelers Keep Making the Same Mistakes.
Our columnist begs you to avoid middlemen, get promises in writing and stop expecting perfection in an imperfect world.
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The Life Span of Loneliness
OpinionSupported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe Life Span of Loneliness Dec. 21, 2023, 5:02 a.m. ETShare full articleVideo by Adam Westbrook and…
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Mahmoud Abbas Must Go
I got into politics when I was 15, joining Fatah Youth in Jerusalem during the first intifada in 1987. Several…
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How Could the Supreme Court Respond to Colorado?
By David Firestone and Jesse Wegman Produced by Jillian Weinberger Donald Trump engaged in insurrection and that disqualifies him from…
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Does Social Media Perpetuate Inequality?
For some people, social media is inconsequential — a cat photo here, a banana slip TikTok there. For others, it’s…
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The Year the Internet Left Me Behind
For my entire professional life, I have started nearly every weekday morning with an extremely important productivity ritual: I make…
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Income Inequality Has Been Transformed Globally
In 1974, the libertarian political philosopher Robert Nozick famously defended inequality by offering a thought experiment involving Wilt Chamberlain. Imagine…
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The Year in Apple Watches, A.I., Anarcho-Capitalists and Anticapitalists
We covered a lot of ground together in 2023. In this issue of the newsletter I’ll update you on some…