Politics
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Is Trump Disqualified From Holding Office? The Question Matters, Beyond Him.
State courts in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and elsewhere have so far declined to rule in favor of challenges asserting that…
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Pope Francis Tries to Settle Accounts
For years now, Pope Francis’s governance of the Roman Catholic Church has been seemingly designed to drive the church’s conservative…
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Has No Labels Become a Stalking Horse for Trump?
No Labels, a Washington-based organization run by political and corporate insiders, finds itself in an awkward situation. After its founding…
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The Reality of Recycling Is Appalling. But We Can Fix It.
It happened again the other night: Washing up after dinner, I went to throw out a packet of just-eaten instant…
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Understanding the True Nature of the Hamas-Israel War
The reason the Hamas-Israel war can be hard for outsiders to understand is that three wars are going on at…
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Bidenomics and the Guys in the Bar
Ten finance guys are drinking in a bar. Nine of them are Masters of the Universe — wheeler-dealers who make…
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How to Kill a Palestinian State
Do the people chanting “Free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” have any idea…
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Knowing When ‘They’ Means One
I have a proposal about our new usage of “they” to refer to individual people, as in, “Irene? Oh, they…
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Holly Maguigan, Who Fought for the Rights of Battered Women, Dies at 78
Through her scholarship and her teaching, she made it possible for women in abusive relationships to claim self-defense when fighting…
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Charles T. Munger, Much More Than Warren Buffett’s No. 2, Dies at 99
A billionaire in his own right, he was the vice chairman of Mr. Buffett’s hugely successful investment firm Berkshire Hathaway.…