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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Tax Hike Idea Is Not About Soaking the Rich
The New York Times - By EMMANUEL SAEZ and GABRIEL ZUCMAN
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has kick-started a much-needed debate about taxes. But the debate, so far, has been misplaced. It’s obvious that the affluent — who’ve seen their earnings boom since 1980 while
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In Poland, the Limits of Solidarity
The New York Times - By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
According to the official accounts, the 27-year-old man who fatally attacked the mayor of the Polish port city of Gdansk at a charity event on Jan. 13 was deranged, violent and recently released from What
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Covington and the Pundit Apocalypse
The New York Times - By FRANK BRUNI
There’s no shame and much honor in the job of coming to judgments about news events. But we don’t have to rush there. That’s what too many of us pundits did upon first seeing video footage and hearing
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A Second North Korea Summit
The New York Times - By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
President Trump remains bullish that the North Korea nuclear threat can be contained. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, the president praised the “incredible meeting” he had the day before with a top
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Watching Brexit Fall Apart
The New York Times - By SYLVIE KAUFFMANN
PARIS — If French voters, unsettled by the revolt of the Yellow Vests, are tempted to use referendums to enhance the democratic process, they should look at the sad spectacle across the Channel: the British
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The Abortion Wars Have Become a Fight Over Science
The New York Times - By MARY ZIEGLER
It was perhaps, at first glance, an unusual feature of the 2019 March for Life that it downplayed what many have come to think of as the central claim of the anti-abortion movement: that the unborn have
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Trump, Mueller and the BuzzFeed Report
The New York Times
To the Editor: Re “Mueller Disputes Report That Trump Directed Cohen to Lie” (news article, Jan. 19): After President Trump’s astonishing deference to Vladimir Putin on Russian sanctions, election meddling,
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The Supreme Court Just Ended My Military Career
The New York Times - By BRYNN TANNEHILL
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that the Trump administration could reinstate its policy barring most transgender people from serving in the military while several cases challenging the policy
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More Schools and Fewer Tanks for the Mideast
The New York Times - By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
President Trump’s sudden announcement that he’s pulling U.S. troops out of Syria and shrinking their number in Afghanistan has prompted a new debate about American ground forces in the Middle East and
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The Day the Music Died
The New York Times - By MARGARET RENKL
NASHVILLE — I am not a musician, or even an aspiring musician, but I moved to Nashville in 1987 because of music. One of my college roommates was in graduate school at Vanderbilt and invited me to visit,
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The Covington Scissor
The New York Times - By ROSS DOUTHAT
In a short story published last October, “Sort by Controversial,” Scott Alexander imagines a Silicon Valley company that accidentally comes up with an algorithm to generate what it calls a “Scissor.” scissor
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The U.S. Should Return to Unesco
The New York Times - By ROGER COHEN
The United States quit Unesco, the United Nations cultural organization, this month. It did not go quietly. A “cesspool,” Nikki Haley called it. “Unesco is among the most corrupt and politically biased
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Putin’s Dream of Godliness: Holy Russia
The New York Times - By MICHAEL KHODARKOVSKY
On Jan. 5, some 150,000 people lined up in front of the St. Sophia Cathedral in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. They came to see a single document called a tomos, issued a few days before by the ecumenical patriarch
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In Memoriam: What Would Gary Gutting Do?
The New York Times - By PETER CATAPANO
When Americans lament the loss of civility in public discourse, the nobility of purpose in education and the ability to reach across contentious political and ideological divides — or just flat out wonder
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They Still Like Steve King Here
The New York Times - By ART CULLEN
STORM LAKE, Iowa — The Republicans in Des Moines and Washington are doing what they can to run away from and run off Representative Steve King, the Republican from my district, for yet more of his outlandish
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How a Coup Can Destroy a Family, and How a Family Can Heal
The New York Times - By MOHAMED SOLTAN
I always admired my uncle Anas, my mom’s youngest brother and a general in the Egyptian police. He helped shape my sense of justice and discipline. When I was growing up, I had nothing but respect and
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Socrates Wants You to Tidy Up, Too
The New York Times - By YUNG IN CHAE and JOHANNA HANINK
These days, it appears that nobody is immune to Marie Kondo fever. Kondo, an organization expert who first commanded international attention with her best-selling 2014 book, “The Life-Changing Magic of
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Martin Luther King and Today’s Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The New York Times
To the Editor: Re “Time to Break the Silence on Palestine” (column, Jan. 20): Michelle Alexander deduces that Martin Luther King Jr. would condemn Israel if he were alive today. I disagree. How appalled
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A Woman to Vanquish Trump
The New York Times - By MICHELLE GOLDBERG
The February before the 2016 election, Dan Cassino, a political scientist at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and some of his colleagues tried to measure how threats to traditional masculinity affected
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Blaming the Victims of Larry Nassar
The New York Times
To the Editor: We were pleased to see John Engler, the interim president of Michigan State University, step down after his callous accusation that young women and girls abused by Dr. Larry Nassar appeared
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Bill James Has the Required Numbers
The New York Times - By JAMIE MALANOWSKI
This week, the Baseball Hall of Fame will announce a new class of inductees, setting off rounds of celebrations — and debates. Fans will argue over whether Mariano Rivera deserves unanimous approval, whether
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How the Irish Won Their Freedom
The New York Times - By CHRISTOPHER L. PASTORE
In 1916, Irish nationalists sparked the Easter Rising, a bloody revolt against the British, who had controlled Ireland for some 700 years. They failed in their immediate goal — and many of them were executed
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Kamala Harris, a front-runner
The New York Times - By DAVID LEONHARDT
This article is part of David Leonhardt’s newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. By formally entering the presidential race, Kamala Harris immediately becomes one of the front-runners
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If Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Talk, Britain Is Waiting
The New York Times - By DAMIAN COLLINS
This month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that his pledge for this new year is to “host a series of public discussions about the future of technology in society.” He added that he intends to “try different
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How We Destroy Lives Today
The New York Times - By DAVID BROOKS
Within living memory, political polarization had at least something to do with issues, but in the age of social media it’s almost entirely about social type. It’s about finding and spreading the viral
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Donald Trump Did Something Right
The New York Times - By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
As Donald Trump was fighting with Congress over the shutdown and funding for a border wall, his administration implemented a new rule that could be a game-changer for health care. Starting this month,
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Roe v. Wade Is at Risk. Here’s How to Prepare.
The New York Times - By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Abortion opponents have spent decades planning for a Supreme Court with a majority hostile to reproductive rights. So it’s little surprise that, with the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh in the fall, the
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The Economy Won’t Rescue Trump
The New York Times - By PAUL KRUGMAN
Although there have been approximately 100,000 media profiles of enthusiastic blue-collar Trump supporters in diners, the reality is that Donald Trump is extraordinarily unpopular. A recent Pew analysis
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A Mayor Is Murdered, a Country Hums With Violence
The New York Times - By OLGA TOKARCZUK
WROCLAW, Poland — In Gdansk, psychologists have been called in to help the public. Such is the great shock following the murder on Jan. 13 — on live prime-time television with millions watching — of the