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Why the Johnson & Johnson pause should bolster confidence in vaccines
The news may be disappointing, but it shows our health agencies are taking safety issues seriously.
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Biden takes the easy way out of Afghanistan. The likely result is disaster.
It will mean abandoning those Afghans who believed in building a democracy that guaranteed basic human rights.
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Derek Chauvin’s defense is in fact a damning indictment
The shaky science of "excited delirium."
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Refusing to cover Armie Hammer turns critics into moralists. That’s not our role.
Critics should stop acting like our only job is to draw attention to movies. Our role is more important than that.
Biden is making the Trump presidency seem like a golden age of unity
Just as Democrats redefined “infrastructure,” the president is now trying to redefine “bipartisanship.”
Will Biden’s foreign policy sap his domestic policy?
The U.S. can't afford to be the "indispensable nation" abroad while rebuilding at home.
Rebecca Carroll talks about her experience as a Black woman being raised by White parents
The author of "Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir" discusses her Opinions piece on transracial adoption: "Trying to navigate this existence and this identity, it was just exhausting."
The most anti-refugee president in modern history might not be Donald Trump
President Biden never signed the paperwork to implement his own policy and lift Trump’s restrictions.
Corporate America is suffering from Bloombergism
The globe is still in the middle of the populist age that started in earnest after the 2008 financial crash.
We should celebrate trans kids, not crack down on them
Constantly subjecting young people to gender tests won't help settle their identities.
AI companies are enabling genocide in China
Technology developed in the West is repressing the Uyghurs.
The cicadas are coming. And they’re changing dramatically.
Climate change and deforestation are upending the bug's life cycle.
Amazon’s union vote could be a harbinger for the future of work
Algorithmic management is intensifying across companies. Workers must resist.
Abolishing the death penalty must be part of reimagining safety
Why death penalty abolitionists should join proponents of "community justice."
How we are reimagining public safety in Montgomery County
Reducing reliance on police can create radical change.
Faced with the loss of her twin boys, she asked for a lawyer — and was refused. Her case changed the law in Ohio.
When Erica Starkey signed away custody of her twin boys when they were babies, she never imagined the loss would be permanent.
Congress should stop attacking DeJoy and consider his plan to fix the Postal Service
Love Mr. DeJoy or hate him, but give his postal-reform plan a fair hearing.
Court-packing isn’t the right fix for our courts. Ending life tenure is.
Biden empowers a reform commission as a Supreme Court justice issues a timely warning.
These are the victims of repression in Belarus
An Olympic swimmer, a punk singer, a journalist and a doctor are just some of those in the regime’s crosshairs.
Virginia’s statewide candidates should commit to opposing ‘cancel culture’
Vowing to protect free speech will take political courage, but it’s the right thing to do.
The Virginia Democratic gubernatorial debate showed there is no inevitable candidate
Voters got something different from the usual litany of talking points and uncomfortable body language.
Virginia, speak up for youth voting
Registering more young people to vote translates into more young people actually voting.
Maryland needs a comprehensive eviction database
A glaring lack of in-depth eviction data could seriously hamstring outreach efforts and the allocation of aid to those most at-risk of forced displacement.







