By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist In my last column I tried to describe part of the current controversy over race and K-12 education — the part that turns on whether it’s possible to tell a fuller historical story about slavery
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Opinion | Student Loans. Medical Debt. Criminal Justice Fees. Cancel It All.
Credit…Paul Sahre Supported by By Astra Taylor Ms. Taylor, a writer, filmmaker and activist, is the author, most recently, of “Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions.” Formerly enslaved people called the phase that followed the Civil War, and their emancipation,
Opinion | Only the Incompetent Need Apply
By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist I wrote a few days ago about how ignorance — ignorance about history, about science, about economics and more — has become a core conservative value. This exaltation of ignorance naturally goes hand in hand
Opinion | Race Manners: Which Black People Should I Believe?
One of the most common pieces of advice I’ve heard given to aspiring white allies is to seek out more Black opinions. This advice is often coupled with a further admonition to suspend one’s own judgment and simply defer to
Opinion | The Cruel Logic of the Republican Party, Before and After Trump
Donald Trump has claimed credit for any number of things he benefited from but did not create, and the Republican Party’s reigning ideology is one of them: a politics of cruelty and exclusion that strategically exploits vulnerable Americans by portraying
Opinion | Can Ranked-Choice Voting Cure American Politics?
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Tuesdays and Thursdays. In the New York mayoral primary this week, hundreds of thousands of voters headed to the polls to cast a
Opinion | Alison Bechdel Shares the Secret to Superhuman Strength
Produced by ‘Sway’ The fitness industry has exploded into a nearly $100 billion sector, and Alison Bechdel is among the exercise-obsessed. Bechdel, the cartoonist whose comic strip inspired the Bechdel Test for female representation in Hollywood, says she has found
Opinion | Do Falling Birthrates Spell Doom?
Produced by ‘The Argument’ U.S. birthrates have fallen by 4 percent, hitting a record low. And it’s not just America — people around the world are having fewer children, from South Korea to South America. In some ways, this seems
KKR to buy stake in New Zealand's Education Perfect for $318 million
FILE PHOTO: Trading information for KKR & Co is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., August 23, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File PhotoSYDNEY (Reuters) – KKR & Co Inc has
Opinion | Anthony Fauci on the Lab Leak Theory and Emailing Mark Zuckerberg
America’s chief immunologist claps back. Produced by ‘Sway’ Anthony Fauci doesn’t have a Twitter account. But he does have a lot to say about the recent scrutiny following the release of his emails from 2020 — an especially busy time