“It’s Pavlovian now,” writes . “Republicans don’t even hesitate before protecting Trump, even though he’s being investigated for possibly violating the Espionage Act.”
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“Gen X bosses work for their employees, not the other way around,” writes Pamela Paul. “It would be very Gen X to shrug at this seemingly inevitable outcome. We were probably never meant to be the boss.”
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Hospitals are required by law to make the prices of their services public, but the majority are not complying. “The threat to hospitals not in compliance is meaningless without both diligent enforcement and stronger penalties,” says Martin Schoeller.
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“I had a car. It’s a giant paperweight now. My kids ask if they can play inside it, and that’s about all it’s good for. Sri Lanka has run out of gas,” writes .
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"The notion of endless, absolute gridlock isn’t just wrong. It’s dangerous. It’s causing Americans — and people around the world — to lose faith in democracy as a model of governance," writes , a member of the editorial board.
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“Big Pharma is no longer invincible,” writes . The Inflation Reduction Act "is not the sweeping drug-pricing measure originally envisioned by Democrats, but it is the single biggest political loss the drug industry has sustained.”
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For some college students, a life that rejects striving altogether is the only alternative they can imagine to a life of striving without purpose. Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey on why so many college students are lost and how to help them.
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“If you can't — or, let's face it, won’t — disconnect from work on vacation, let me assure you: It is probably OK,” writes . “It is also OK, however, to take little vacations during working hours.”
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"Since the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, more than 1 million Americans have died of drug overdose, including a record of nearly 108,000 Americans last year alone. And it’s not slowing down," writes .
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The coronavirus “has adapted quickly to us,” writes . “Now arises the crucial question of whether humans and human ingenuity can adapt faster.”
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“Sri Lanka is just the canary in the coal mine. The entire world is plugged into this failing system and the pain will be widespread,” writes .
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Group chats, writes , are her saving grace: “I appreciate how, in the apocalyptic landscape of our algorithmically juiced culture wars, a group chat is a refuge where my ideas and thoughts don’t have to be fully formed and battle ready.”
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“The goal of Mr. Khamenei and his revolutionary cohorts,” writes , “is to avoid a normal Iran, and normalization with the United States.”
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“Many institutions today have forgotten that liberal education itself was meant to teach the art of choosing, to train the young to use reason to decide which endeavors merit the investment of their lives,” write Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey.
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“It is an abdication of responsibility for technologists to pretend that the technologies they make have no say in who we become,” writes .
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Some $7 billion worth of beach replenishment programs have added sand and bolstered property values in some of the most exclusive havens in the United States, writes . “Federal taxpayers typically pick up two-thirds of the tab.”
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“Harm reduction isn’t harm eradication, but it works to prevent the spread of H.I.V. and hepatitis C and to prevent overdose deaths — and the government should acknowledge its efficacy,” writes .
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“What I have seen as a bookseller is that publishing, originally geared toward offering new writers the chance to connect with readers, evermore trends toward an industry narrowly engineered to produce repeat best sellers,” writes Richard Howorth.
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Brazen lawbreaking is now a political asset for G.O.P. candidates and operatives, wrote .
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“Even in their pared-down form passed by Congress, the changes to the U.S. health care system in the Inflation Reduction Act are momentous,” writes .
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Ron Sider “was an encouragement to those who seek to follow Jesus in a complex and confounding American political landscape,” writes .
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“Regardless of what plays now on cable news, historians of Mr. Biden’s first term will have to admit that a surprising amount got done,” writes .
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“It’s increasingly clear that Putin is using gas as a weapon, and trying to supply just enough gas to Europe to keep Europe in a perpetual state of panic,” tells .
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“Baby boomers and millennials have always had a finely tuned sense of how important they are. Gen Xers are under no such illusion,” writes Pamela Paul.
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“It’s Pavlovian now,” writes . “Republicans don’t even hesitate before protecting Trump, even though he’s being investigated for possibly violating the Espionage Act.”
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Alex Jones is not alone in “connecting out-there cures to out-there political claims,” writes. “The coziness between wellness ideas and conspiracy theories sounds odd, but when you dig into these movements, you find considerable overlap.”
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Have states gone from being “laboratories of democracy” to “laboratories of illiberalism”? believes so, and explains what that means for national politics in America on this episode of The Argument.
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“Ultimate blame for Sri Lanka’s collapse lies with the Western-dominated neoliberal system that keeps developing countries in a form of debt-fueled colonization,” writes .
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“If Trump had been held to account for his corruption and financial wrongdoing as a private citizen in the 1980s and 1990s, we might never have had Trump as a problem in the first place,” writes .
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“Rather than express concern about a possible violation of the Presidential Records Act or even simply withhold judgment until more information becomes available, Mr. Trump’s defenders instead attacked law enforcement officials,” notes .
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“Those in charge of enforcing our laws should remember that the caterwauling of the Trump camp is designed to intimidate them,” writes , “and such intimidation helped Trump become president in the first place.”
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“You may think this rambunctious, ravenous, apartment-destroying puppy will be the death of you, but adopting a dog actually lowers your risk of death,” writes . “Because dogs will love you till the day they die.”
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“The goal of Mr. Khamenei and his revolutionary cohorts,” writes , “is to avoid a normal Iran, and normalization with the United States.”
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“Someone explain to my first-year college students why they can buy a shotgun but not a shot of booze, because I sure can’t,” writes Beth Ann Fennelly, the former poet laureate of Mississippi.
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“Big Pharma is no longer invincible,” writes . “The plan is not the sweeping drug-pricing measure originally envisioned by Democrats, but it is the single biggest political loss the drug industry has sustained.”
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While the lawn may be a powerful symbol of American postwar prosperity, it’s also an ecological dead zone that’s sucking the nation’s aquifers dry. "Lawns are damaging our planet, ruining our health and wasting our time," argues . nyti.ms/3AgnLv5
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“For as long as I can remember, Afghan women have not had time to mourn,” says . “We have lost loved ones, our homeland, our freedoms, our hopes. Now an entire nation and its youth are being denied access to education, information and a future.”
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Early voting has started in New York’s Aug. 23 primary elections for Congress. These races are important because they could help determine control of the House in November. Read about the races and the Times editorial board’s endorsements.
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