Analysis & Comment
Opinion | ‘The Lost Cause’ Is Back
July 29, 2021
By Charles M. Blow Opinion Columnist If this phony “debate” over the obscure concept of critical race theory caught you off guard and unaware, you are not alone.
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Opinion | Why Rural America Needs Immigrants
July 22, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Iowa — Rural America has a growth problem. Business and industry desperately need workers, but the domestic labor pool is shallow, and the nation’s birthrate is slowing.
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Your Wednesday Briefing
July 20, 2021
Good morning. We’re covering new estimates of India’s Covid death toll, raging wildfires in the American West and growing tension between the U.S. and China. India’s Covid toll
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Opinion | How to Raise a Happy Family When You’re Homeless
July 20, 2021
Homelessness in the United States takes many forms. For Elizabeth Herrera, David Lima and their four children, housing instability has meant moving between unsafe apartments, motels, relatives’ couches,
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Opinion | Texas Tries to Upend the Legal System With Its Abortion Law
July 19, 2021
Efforts in red states to pass increasingly restrictive limits on abortions have ramped up in the last few years as the composition of the Supreme Court has made
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Your Monday Briefing
July 19, 2021
England’s troubled reopening An average of almost 45,000 cases of the coronavirus per day were reported in the U.K. in the past week, an increase of 83 percent
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Opinion | The Day Cubans Lost Their Fear
July 14, 2021
Cubans unexpectedly took to the streets on Sunday. Tens of thousands were chanting for freedom and food. It is hard to imagine a more succinct diagnosis of the
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Opinion | You Can’t Take It With You, but You Can Put It in Storage.
July 12, 2021
NASHVILLE — Back when my children were small, I felt like I was drowning in an ocean of things. Diapers. Pacifiers. Booster seats. Storybooks. Action figures. Legos, hobbling
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Opinion | Germany Apologized for a Genocide. It’s Nowhere Near Enough.
July 8, 2021
More than a century ago, Germany carried out a systematic massacre. From 1904 to 1908, in what is now Namibia, the German colonial government killed about 80,000 Herero
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Your Monday Briefing
July 5, 2021
A deadly plane crash in the Philippines. By Amelia Nierenberg Good morning. We’re covering a fatal plane crash in the Philippines, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and a
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