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Dec 6, 2024
“There were a lot of very sick people tonight,” said the Emergency Department nurse, explaining why my friend had to wait six hours to be seen....
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Nov 28, 2024
“Ho ho! Pink Floyd!” the fellow said, laughing. “Rolling Stones!” said his companion, also laughing. We’d met in a dark...
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Nov 21, 2024
Dave McCormick won’t listen to my advice. You don’t become as rich as he is listening to journalists. But you might become a better public...
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Oct 11, 2024
The American political system works. Of course it works. That’s what a system — a thing that once set up...
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Sep 5, 2024
It was like getting slugged every 10 minutes. I was sitting in a small bar last night, working on an article and half-watching...
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Sep 2, 2024
Did God save Donald Trump’s life from the assassin’s bullets because he wants him to be the next president of the United States? Donald Trump...
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Jul 26, 2024
JD Vance has a serious problem, and I have no confidence he will answer it well, because he hasn’t answered it well. He has bound himself to unpopular...
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Jul 19, 2024
“Do you think we’ll get into civil war?” he asked, a few hours after a twisted young man tried to kill Donald Trump. My late-thirty-something...
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Jun 17, 2024
You can get sick of politics, when nothing changes and people shout and scream and howl without stop anyway, and they almost...
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Jun 3, 2024
It’s always a bad sign when you ask how good someone is at his job and the first response is, “He’s a really nice...
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Apr 15, 2024
My friend Digby took his place every Sunday with the other Quakers among the people ringing the town common protesting...
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Apr 5, 2024
The man standing behind us narrowed his eyes and said, “I bet you’re Trump supporters.” A tall, thin Black man, he’d come...
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Apr 3, 2024
The New York Times article a friend circulated shocked me, which doesn’t happen often. I hadn’t expected...
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Apr 1, 2024
“No, really,” my mother said when I told her I was dating a woman named Smith. “No one,” she said, “is named Smith.”...
Dec 6, 2024“There were a lot of very sick people tonight,” said the Emergency Department nurse, explaining why my friend had to wait six hours to be seen....
Sep 5, 2024It was like getting slugged every 10 minutes. I was sitting in a small bar last night, working on an article and half-watching...