America
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News
What the News and the Pews Have in Common
In the past few weeks, both The Atlantic and The New Yorker used the phrase “extinction-level event” to headline stories…
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World
Trump’s NATO Threat Reflects a Wider Shift on America’s Place in the World
Alliances that were once seen as the bulwark of the Cold War are now viewed as an outdated albatross by…
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News
My Father, Ronald Reagan, Would Weep for America
The night before my father died, Ronald Reagan, I listened to his breathing — ragged, thin. Nothing like that of…
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News
America Between Jesus and Faust
In my Saturday column I dabbled in a peculiar kind of optimism about the American future, arguing that if we…
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News
We Americans Neglect Our Children
Individually, we adore and pamper our children. We shuttle them from soccer practice to music lessons and then organize their…
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News
Biden’s Harsh Attack on Trump in a Campaign Speech
More from our inbox: After a Plane Crash: Learning From the JapaneseHow ‘Munich’ Resonates TodayCredit...Pete Marovich for The New York…
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News
America Can Still Make a Damn Good Sweatshirt
Growing up, my parents drove my brothers and me around in lumbering Fords and ungainly Oldsmobiles until one fateful day…
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Arts
Told Ya So: The Prescient Posters of the Environmental Movement
Graphic artists have been helping call attention to climate change for decades, and a new exhibition charts the evolution of…
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News
The Thin Blue Line That Divides America
Among the banners that Donald Trump’s supporters carried as they stormed the Capitol three years ago — 2016’s Make America…
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News
Trump’s Final Battle Has Begun
Like many other Americans struggling to find scraps of calm and slivers of hope in this anxious era, I resolved…