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We’re covering China’s lagging vaccination campaign, and a step forward in talks to restore the Iran nuclear deal. Perks for China’s vaccinated In Beijing, a Covid-19 vaccine will qualify you for a buy-one-get-one-free deal on ice cream cones. But in
Opinion | How Do I Define My Gender if No One Is Watching Me?
When the world went into lockdown five months after I started taking testosterone, I thought it would be easier not to see people for a while. Maybe they wouldn’t hear my voice go scratchy or see up close the hormonal
Opinion | Republicans Have an Ambitious Agenda for the Supreme Court
Not so long ago, Republicans had one of the most ambitious legislative agendas of any political party in modern American history. Devised by the former House speaker, Paul Ryan, the so-called Ryan budget sought to reduce much of the nation’s
Opinion | We Are a Nation of Immigrants. Our Ecosystems Shouldn’t Be.
NASHVILLE — My favorite spring flower blooms along the leafless branches of the lowly serviceberry, a small tree with varieties native to every state except Hawaii. In the old days, the serviceberry’s simple, five-petaled blossoms heralded springtime itself. Appalachian tradition
Biden’s Big Plan
A new president needs to make choices. Recent history suggests that an administration has only about a year to push major legislation through Congress before attention turns to the midterm elections (which rarely go well for the party in power).
Opinion | The Years of Work Behind Washington’s Most Well-Liked Man
In 2015, I was working as an economist at the Federal Reserve. If someone told you then that in 2020 a deadly pandemic would shut down life as we knew it and that in the midst of a stop-and-go response
Opinion | Struggling With Mounting Student Debt
To the Editor: Re “Drowning in Student Loan Debt” (Op-Ed, March 19): It’s easy to sympathize with Molly Webster’s carrying tens of thousands of dollars in student debt at age 38. But she made the decisions to attend an expensive
Opinion | The Many Faces of Post-Trump Stress Disorder
It seemed like everything was calming down, until it wasn’t. By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens Ms. Collins and Mr. Stephens are opinion columnists. They converse every week. Bret Stephens: Gail, before anything else, I know we are both as
Opinion | ‘Government Is the Solution, Not the Problem’
To the Editor: Re “Stimulus Signals Shifting Politics of Poverty Fight” (front page, March 14): In 1981, Ronald Reagan told us, “Government is not a solution to our problem; government is the problem.” In the 1990s, Bill Clinton claimed the