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A New Voice for Winning Back Lost Democratic Voters
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Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez chose her guest for last month’s State of the Union address in order to make one of her favorite points.
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How to Get Kids to Hate English
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Imagine a world without English majors. In the last decade, the study of English and history in college has fallen by a third. At Columbia University, the share of English majors fell from 10 percent to 5 percent between 2002 and 2020.
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Can We Put an End to America’s Most Dangerous Myth?
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From a child's earliest age, independence is extolled as a virtue, with “doing things on your own” as proof of maturity. I celebrated my daughter when she was little for picking out her books herself.
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I’m What’s Wrong With the Humanities
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In the responses to a recent death-of-the-humanities dirge, a long reported piece by Nathan Heller for The New Yorker on the decline of the English major, you could see an illustration of its thesis: The story’s most depressing anecdotes were plucked out and swapped around on social media by peopl
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Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT
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Jorge Luis Borges once wrote that to live in a time of great peril and promise is to experience both tragedy and comedy, with “the imminence of a revelation” in understanding ourselves and the world.
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American Jews, You Have to Choose Sides on Israel
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Ever since Israel’s founding in 1948, supporting the country’s security and its economic development and cementing its diplomatic ties to the U.S. have been the “religion” of many nonobservant American Jews — rather than studying Torah or keeping kosher.
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The Overdose That Changed My 20s
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After the birth of my first daughter, I wanted to protect her at any cost. As I worried about what could happen to her, I started to think about the person she would be as a teenager. Would she be as limitless as I was as a young adult, pushing at the boundaries of her life?
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From the Trenches in Ukraine, We Know Our Enemy Is in Shock
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An infantryman’s least favorite weather is a temperature of 35 degrees Fahrenheit and pouring rain, when the trench floods with knee-deep, near freezing water. Surviving in such conditions is truly an art, and it’s at these moments in particular that a trench has a special energy.
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Joe Biden: My Plan to Extend Medicare for Another Generation
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Millions of Americans work their whole lives, paying into Medicare with every working day — starting with their first jobs, even as teenagers. Medicare is more than a government program. It’s the rock-solid guarantee that Americans have counted on to be there for them when they retire.
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What Republican Parents Really Want
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There has recently been a lot of chatter in Washington about family policy, and surprisingly to many people, a lot of it has happened among Republicans.
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It Was Donald Trump’s CPAC. (No One Else Came.)
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The Conservative Political Action Conference is a festival disguised as a political meeting, a sales convention doubling as a revival, an annual celebration of a particular kind of conservatism and its red hat-wearing, pin-collecting enthusiasts.
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It Would Be Foolish to Ignore What Just Happened in Chicago
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Bret Stephens: Gail, the biggest political news from last week was the resounding defeat of the mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, in the primary. Your thoughts on her political downfall?
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Take Threats of ‘National Divorce’ Seriously
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About two weeks ago, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia kicked off a conversation about a “national divorce,” and it hasn’t really stopped.
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Michael Bloomberg: Israel Is Courting Disaster
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In more than 20 years of public life, I have steadfastly supported Israel and its people in both word and deed, including by building medical facilities there, co-founding a leadership center, supporting its innovative local programs and funding other good causes.
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A 120-Year-Old Company Is Leaving Tesla in the Dust
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Tesla had me convinced, for a while, that it was a cool company. It made cars that performed animatronic holiday shows using their lights and power-operated doors.
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All three are examples of Americans engaging in clamorous but perfectly legal speech about public figures that is broadly protected by the Constitution.
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The Dirty Little Secret of Credit Card Rewards Programs
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There’s an undeniable feeling of excitement when you turn your daily credit card swipes at Starbucks into first-class airfare or a weekend jaunt to Costa Rica. Thanks to mobile banking and the ease of autopay, you can scrupulously avoid any additional costs by paying your monthly bill in full.
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The Truth About the ‘Censorship’ of Roald Dahl
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When it was reported last month that hundreds of words had been changed or removed in the most recent British editions of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Matilda” and other books by Roald Dahl in an effort to make them less offensive, everyone from the queen consort and the British pri
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Dead birds still fall from the sky near my hometown. Their bodies hit the ground as part of the fallout of an environmental disaster that dates back to the 1970s, the result of corporate pollution that made the county I grew up in the home of one of Michigan’s most notorious Superfund sites.
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Why Alex Murdaugh’s Quick Conviction Worries Me
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As I watched the gripping murder trial of the prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh over the last few weeks, I found myself wrestling with difficult questions about how data from smartphones and other digital technologies should be relied upon in the criminal justice system.
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The Excellence of Kamala Harris Is Hiding in Plain Sight
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Vice President Kamala Harris occupies an office that can be the butt of jokes and criticism. The only duties of the vice president spelled out in the Constitution are to cast tiebreaking votes in the Senate and to become president if the office becomes vacant.
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America Is In Over Its Head
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The greatest blunder President Vladimir Putin may have made so far in Ukraine is giving the West the impression that Russia could lose the war. The early Russian strike on Kyiv stumbled and failed. The Russian behemoth seemed not nearly as formidable as it had been made out to be.
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This Is Trump’s ‘Magic Trick’
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In his effort to outflank Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida — his most potent challenger-in-waiting for the Republican presidential nomination — Donald Trump goes only in one direction: hard right.
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The Spectacular Fall of Lori Lightfoot
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It was a stunning rebuke. On Tuesday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, the first Black woman and first openly L.G.B.T.Q. person to lead the city, failed to advance to a runoff, earning just 17 percent of the vote and becoming the first incumbent mayor in 40 years to lose a re-election bid.
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My Liberal Campus Is Pushing Freethinkers to the Right
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In the not-so-distant past, the Typical College Republican idolized Ronald Reagan, fretted about the national debt and read Edmund Burke. Political sophistication, to that person, implied belief in the status quo.
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