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“President Biden is trying to pull off a neat trick with his so-called billionaire tax plan,” writes @petercoy.https://nyti.ms/3IZ3DQ6 

“The juxtaposition of images of a war with celebrities and pet videos in a social media feed is disturbing,” writes Hayley Phelan. “It’s also desensitizing.”https://nyti.ms/38jDkHW 

It’s clear Big Tech companies hold big power. But should they? And do their moves in Russia highlight that they have too much influence in some countries? @janecoaston, @cwarzel and @robbysoave debate on the latest episode of The Argument.https://nyti.ms/3wUWiid 

"It would be a grave mistake to assume Covid-19 no longer requires our action and investment," write @Surgeon_General and @DavidAKesslerMD. "The virus has not disappeared."https://nyti.ms/3iUIZpW 

“Putin doesn’t seem like the miscalculating loser his critics make him out to be,” writes Bret Stephens.https://nyti.ms/3LvDmuG 

“Violence is never the answer, but I’m not mad about it,” @rgay tells host @lourdesgnavarro in discussion about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars. https://nyti.ms/3qTvPxD 

“We found more trials involving rap lyrics in the past decade than during the heyday of the war on crime in the ’90s,” @jaeahjlee reports, in partnership with @typeinvestigate.https://nyti.ms/3qNWwE7 

There were important downsides to globalization as we knew it, @PaulKrugman writes, but there will be even starker consequences if we see a significant rollback in world trade.https://nyti.ms/3Dvyl29 

“I just think we probably make too big a deal out of Hollywood representation. Sympathetic as I might be to these concerns, I just can’t make myself believe that it matters all that much who wins an Oscar,” writes @jaycaspiankang.https://nyti.ms/3Nw9jVv 

“Russia’s potential is being set back by decades; the young, educated and creative are leaving; and the hard men are ascendant,” writes the editorial board’s Serge Schmemann. “Once again, Russia has become a pariah spreading lies and death.”https://nyti.ms/3iT9vzT 

“I don’t really understand why I, as an Asian American, am expected to cheer for a film like “Crazy Rich Asians,” which is about a wealthy Singaporean family,” writes @jaycaspiankang.https://nyti.ms/36NuVMl 

“Russia’s potential is being set back by decades; the young, educated and creative are leaving; and the hard men are ascendant. Once again, Russia has become a pariah spreading lies and death,” the editorial board’s Serge Schmemann writes.  https://nyti.ms/35xLmvS 

“In the weeks since Russia’s brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the reactions within Russia have been muffled,” writes Serge Schmemann.https://nyti.ms/3K2kUcE 

Ginni Thomas’s behavior isn’t some passing curiosity, @FrankBruni writes. It’s a sign of the times. And it’s a warning to us all.https://nyti.ms/3DvL3xZ 

Ahmaud Arbery was lynched in 2020. You could argue that George Floyd was lynched a few months later. And who would debate that James Byrd Jr. was lynched in 1998? writes @CharlesMBlow.https://nyti.ms/3tUZN6E 

“What the Russian state media are doing, this is not news,” @olgatokariuk, a Ukrainian journalist, tells @karaswisher on Sway. “They are broadcasting propaganda, as they’ve been for many years.”https://nyti.ms/3Ls2Ybz