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How China Made Its Housing Crisis Worse
Years of inattention to building an adequate safety net for seniors, the jobless and others in financial stress have left…
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Opinion
Dog Parks Are Great for People. Too Bad They’re Terrible for Dogs.
For urban dog owners with a live-wire canine bouncing off the apartment walls, an enclosed dog park can feel like…
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Opinion
Is Fear of Crime a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
Violent crime — homicides, robberies, gun assaults — has begun to fall from pandemic-era levels. But people are scared. According…
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Opinion
Legacy Admissions Don’t Work the Way You Think They Do
Just four days after the Supreme Court rejected racial preferences in college admissions, a consortium of Black and Latino interest…
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Opinion
Why Republican Politicians Still Hate Medicare
The Republicans who now control the House will soon try to slash Social Security and Medicare. They plan to achieve…
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Opinion
We’re Going to Miss Greed and Cynicism
It’s 2023. What will the new year bring? The answer, of course, is that we don’t know. There are a…
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World
Twitter to Ban Accounts That Promote Rival Social Media
The move may affect giant social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, as well as smaller ones like Mastodon and…
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Opinion
The Left’s Fever Is Breaking
It’s no secret that many left-wing activist groups and nonprofits, roiled by the reckonings over sexual harassment and racial justice…
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Opinion
Trump Struggles, but America Is Still Feverish
Has America’s fever broken? An optimist could make a case. Donald Trump, the central figure in America’s febrile ailment, was…
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Opinion
What Ron DeSantis and the Rest of the G.O.P. Can Learn From Marx
With their new majority, House Republicans are planning to take on “woke capitalism.” “Republicans and their longtime corporate allies are…