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The Hard-Drug Decriminalization Disaster
How soon is too soon to call a progressive and libertarian policy obsession a public policy fiasco? In the case…
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News
Is Fear of Crime a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
Violent crime — homicides, robberies, gun assaults — has begun to fall from pandemic-era levels. But people are scared. According…
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Health
Scenes From a City That Only Hands Out Tickets for Using Fentanyl
For the past two and a half years, Oregon has been trying an unusual experiment to stem soaring rates of…
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World
Trump Team Creates Legal-Defense Fund to Cover His Allies’ Bills
With investigations and legal fees piling up, a fund is planned to help witnesses and defendants. The former president’s legal…
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News
How to Treat Loneliness (and Should We?)
Readers offer their suggestions, including group therapy and psychedelics, but also question the need for solutions.
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World
Fighting for Anthony: The Struggle to Save Portland, Oregon
Come to Portland, his sister said. It’s green and beautiful, people are friendly and there are plenty of jobs. In…
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News
Let the Tragedy in My Homeland Be a Lesson
About seven years ago, people around me started disappearing. It began slowly, quietly. The editors of a well-known literature textbook…
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World
O’Connor Was a Lonely Voice for Change — Until Ireland Changed With Her
Sinead O’Connor shocked her strongly Catholic country when she tore up the pope’s picture. But the Church’s sexual abuse scandals…
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Finance
Elon Musk’s Quixotic Quest to Turn X Into an ‘Everything App’
Mr. Musk, the owner of Twitter, is the latest Silicon Valley mogul to pursue an all-in-one app, the kind that…
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Black History Is a Casualty in Ron DeSantis’s Christian Nationalist Quest
Last week, Florida approved an overhaul of its African American history standards, including guidance that middle schoolers should be instructed…