Politics
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Overturning Roe Changed Everything. Overturning Affirmative Action Did Not.
What do the strikingly different public responses to two recent Supreme Court rulings, one on abortion, the other on affirmative…
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Stop Corporatizing My Students
I have taught creative writing in Mississippi’s flagship university for over 20 years, and I’ve witnessed a powerful outcome: students…
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Where Does Religion Come From?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the ex-Muslim critic of Islamic fundamentalism and longtime champion of Enlightenment liberalism, has announced that she now…
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A Message for the Aging Men Steering U.S.-China Relations
A couple of weeks ago, a young crowd in Shanghai came out in force to celebrate Halloween. The street where…
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The Hate That Doesn’t Know Its Own Name
When the historian Deborah Lipstadt defeated a libel suit brought against her in a British court by the Holocaust denier…
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Roland Lajoie, Army General at the Cold War’s Front Lines, Dies at 87
Part officer, part diplomat, part spy, he led military inspections in East Germany and later oversaw the destruction of Soviet…
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Farewell to the U.S.-China Golden Age
A lunch meeting about China this summer at the Upper East Side headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations felt…
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We Waited 200 Years for This Supreme Court Ethics Code?
On first impulse, I was tempted to say something nice about the Supreme Court’s first-ever ethics code, which the justices…
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Trump’s Deportation Plans for Immigrants
More from our inbox: Shocked by Trump’s Vow to Root Out ‘Vermin’Women in China, Loath to Turn Back the ClockBillionaires,…
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Google’s C.E.O. to Take Another Turn on the Antitrust Witness Stand
Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, is expected to testify on Tuesday for the second time in two weeks to defend…