Opinion | ‘The Bear’ and the Need for a Place to Belong
Every now and then, a fictional character can have a profound real-world impact. I’m thinking, for example, of Jason Sudeikis’s Ted Lasso in 2020…
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Opinion | America Must Rebuild Itself. The Question Is How.
When Dayen turns directly to topics like housing, his arguments go awry. He argues, for instance, that part of the housing crisis is insufficient …
Opinion | Amanda Gorman: In Memory of Those Still in the Water
I understand that the trans-Atlantic slave trade and refugee migration differ. African people were kidnapped, trafficked and enslaved; today’s ref…
Opinion | How to Break a Country
Putin claims to be a champion of the rights of Russian speakers, whose families often moved to neighboring nations when they were all under Soviet…
Opinion | Britain’s Conservatives Are Imploding
A recent poll shows the Labour candidate ahead in Selby and Ainsty, where in 2019 Adams won more than 60 percent of the vote. In Somerton and From…
Opinion | ‘Elon Musk Is Doing for Zuckerberg What Trump Did for George W. Bush’
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Opinion | We Can’t Just Shoot Our Way Out of This
Our topic today is gun regulation. Come on, stop beating your head against the backyard grill. That thing’s hot. Americans are really in need of som…
Opinion | Here’s What the Experts Say About Managing Putin
VILNIUS, Lithuania — Many Americans and Europeans flatter themselves by seeing the war in Ukraine through a false prism. Too often, we think we hav…
Opinion | Tommy Tuberville Is Whitewashing White Nationalism
Surely, Trump and Ramaswamy would say their comments had nothing to do with race — and that to suggest otherwise is, itself, racist. But in this ste…
Opinion | Floods, Heat, Smoke: The Weather Will Never Be Normal Again
Global warming is accelerating , with temperatures not just rising but rising faster than ever. Every day, it seems, we get better at normalizing ex…
Opinion | The Puny Power of ‘Woke Capitalism’
Early last year, the musician India.Arie posted a video on her Instagram that caused a lot of headaches for my then-employer, Spotify. It was a mash…
Opinion | This Is One Republican Strategy That Isn’t Paying Off
The lack of this crucial information, Crayton continued, has meant that Section 2 plaintiffs must gather much of this material through discovery, a …
Opinion | Scapegoated by Everyone, Wanted by No One
ANTAKYA, Turkey — It was the Syrians who were responsible for the earthquakes. That’s what a Turkish man told Seyfeddin Selim, a refugee from Homs, …
Opinion | The U.S. Reassessment of Netanyahu’s Government Has Begun
Whenever people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them that I’m a translator from English to English. I try to take complex subjects and make th…
Opinion | Speech We Loathe Is Speech We Must Defend
In the late 1950s, the Rhode Island legislature created a commission “to encourage morality in youth.” One of its practices was to send notices to o…
Opinion | Some of the Worst Troll Armies Are Gaining Ground. Just Look at Cambodia.
The Cambodian People’s Party created its Cyber War Room about a decade ago. The goal was to support Prime Minister Hun Sen’s regime through social m…