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Don’t Doubt NATO. It Saved My People.
Some in the United States have downplayed the importance of NATO. Many European partners worry that after the U.S. presidential…
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Miracle Whip, Onboarding and the Wonders of the English Language
On a Zoom call recently, someone mentioned the “onboarding” of a new workplace policy. She pronounced it with the accent…
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Gettysburg’s Lost Cause Problem
Amid a sea of stone plaques and obelisks at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania sits a modest monument to…
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There Is Apparently No Accountability — Ever — for Donald Trump
We tell children — or at least we used to — that actions have consequences. What goes around comes around.…
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Ray Kurzweil Still Says He Will Merge With A.I.
Sitting near a window inside Boston’s Four Seasons Hotel, overlooking a duck pond in the city’s Public Garden, Ray Kurzweil…
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A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too
A security breach at the maker of ChatGPT last year revealed internal discussions among researchers and other employees, but not…
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Why I Don’t Vote
Abstinence is having what I believe is called a moment. Everywhere a vast literature of self-denial proclaims the benefits of…
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Why the Flag Looks Like That. And Like That. And Like That.
When the news broke that an upside-down American flag, a protest symbol carried by the Jan. 6 rioters, had flown…
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Who Should Lead the Democratic Ticket? Six Columnists Weigh In.
Gretchen Whitmer, Kamala Harris, President Biden — who is best positioned to beat Donald Trump in November?
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No Poll Can Tell Biden What He Needs to Hear
“Will this be the thing that causes his voters to abandon him? How much will this hurt his numbers?” are…