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English Is Messy. Do I Have to Spell It Out?
One of the best things going on around 200 B.C.E. (from this linguist’s point of view, at least) was that…
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Justice Dept. Asking Witnesses About Trump in Its Jan. 6 Investigation
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I Was Wrong About Why Protests Work
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Inflation Is Bad, But Unemployment Is Far Worse
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The Jan. 6 Panel After 8 Hearings: Where Will the Evidence Lead?
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Books That Immerse Me in a Better World
We’re in the hot, slow days of summer, that stretch where kids are getting bored and parents start counting down…
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Kim Stanley Robinson on Climate Change, Dropping Acid and ‘Psychogeology’
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the great living science fiction writers and one…
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America at 246: An Unvarnished Look
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Lessons From the Terrible Triumph of the Anti-Abortion Movement
In the grief-choked days since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, I’ve been haunted by a moment from the…
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The Jan. 6 Committee Produces a Very Special Episode
The Jan. 6 committee’s hearings have a lot in common with scripted TV mini-series: narrative, editing — even surprise reveals,…
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