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What Pope Benedict Taught Me About Faith

Poetry Died 100 Years Ago This Month

The Next House Speaker Should Come From Outside the House

The Sad Tales of George Santos

The Wall of Silence

Three Ways to Read Trump

George Santos, the Falsehoods and the Facts

A Policy Renaissance Is Needed for Rural America to Thrive

When Books for Children Are Banned

Arizona Is in a Race to the Bottom of Its Water Wells, With Saudi Arabia’s Help

My Christmas Gift to Myself: Pride

Teaching Cursive Is Passé. Should It Be?

A Christmas Conversation About Christ

Donald Trump Is Now Forever Disgraced

The Americanization of Religion

Could Fusion Arrive in Time to Solve Climate Change?

China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Obsession Is Gone, but the Trauma Lingers

What (if Anything) Did You Change Your Mind About This Year?

Liberals Have Been So Busy Not Losing, They’ve Forgotten How to Win

Potato Latke Cocktail, Anyone?

How It Feels to Be a Widow

Here Is What Is Really Strangling the Energy Transition

What I’m Thinking About at the End of 2022

A.I. Will Change Education. Don’t Let It Worsen Inequality.

She Was Supposed to Be China’s Future. After “Zero Covid,” She Wants to Leave.

Xi Jinping’s Covid Crisis Is Really an Opportunity

The New Etiquette of Kids and Coughs

Is It Time to Break Up With Your Political Party?

Experience the Great Outdoors From Prison

Blue Room

Why America Is Getting Tough on Trade

Ash Trees Are Vanishing. So Is a Basket Maker That Has Depended on Them for 168 Years.

This Royal Saga Has a Surprise Ending

We Can Cure Disease by Editing a Person’s DNA. Why Aren’t We?

What You Can Learn on Texas’ Death Row

Public School Failed Her Kids. She’s on a Mission to Save Yours.

What Twitter Does to Our Sense of Time

The Team Each and Every American Should Root For

Completely at Sea

Why It Matters That China’s Protests Started in Xinjiang

Why Democrats Need a Warnock Win

The Iowa Caucuses Had to Go. But Democrats Shouldn’t Put South Carolina First.

Human Composting Would Let New Yorkers Return to Earth

My Dudus

I Still Believe in Effective Altruism, Emphasis on ‘Effective’

China’s Struggle With Covid Is Just Beginning

Free to Be You and Me. Or Not.

The Republicans’ Agenda for Their House Majority: ‘A Path of Pettiness’

Ron DeSantis Is an Optical Illusion

He Sold a Message of Climate Doom. He Has Regrets.