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Saturday, May 30, 2026
Fasten your seat belts, stock your liquor cabinet, make a list of good movies to watch
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The flood of deeply disturbing news from Washington never stops rising, no matter how badly we wish that the president and his administrati...
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Sunday, May 24, 2026
Memories of Barney Frank
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I met the late Barney Frank in the spring of 1966, when my older brother Bob visited me near the end of my freshman year at Harvard. They ...
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Whither the Democratic Party?
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Our national political crisis has been going on for at least 26 years, in my opinion, and Donald Trump remains as much a symptom of it as a ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Can the US hold together?
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Last fall, the historian Jill Lepore gave an interview to the Chronicle of Higher Education about her career as an historian that sheds a ...
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Thursday, April 30, 2026
The Voting Rights Decision
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Last August, thanks to a column by Linda Greenhouse, I anticipated the voting rights decision that the Supreme Court just handed down, and ...
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