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[John R. Eperjesi] The mephitic breath of global warming: PM2.5 as hyperobject

In Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, Timothy Morton observes that, “You can no longer have a routine conversation about the weather with a stranger. The presence of glo...

May 22, 2018
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[Amy Nathan] You’re never too old, busy or rusty to make music

Eighty-five percent of adults in the US who do not play a musical instrument wish they had learned to play one, according to a 2009 Gallup Poll; 69 percent would like to play one now. Nearly all beli...

May 22, 2018
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[Noah Smith] Resentment of crazy-rich Americans isn’t just envy

In the forthcoming movie “Crazy Rich Asians,” an American woman discovers that her boyfriend belongs to Singapore’s secretive, obnoxious jet set. It’s fun to laugh at the ultrarich when they’re just ...

May 21, 2018
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[Matthew Mitchell] Sports wagering has an unlikely foe

Last week the Supreme Court ruled in favor of an issue that seems to be nearing a tipping point in terms of public acceptance: sports betting. But will it be enough to overcome staunch opposition fro...

May 21, 2018
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[Aryeh Neier] Where free speech ends

I have long defended freedom of speech for all, even those expressing the most appalling views. Yet I applauded when a United Nations court sentenced Vojislav Seselj, a Serbian politician, to ten yea...

May 21, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] How Europe can keep money flowing to Iran

The determination of European nations, Russia and China to keep the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran alive isn’t necessarily futile. Europe has more influence than the US on SWIFT, the Brussels-based...

May 21, 2018
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[Markos Kounalakis] Trump moves fast and breaks things to disrupt world

Hang out in any Silicon Valley cafe and the word “disruption” is sure to be uttered at a nearby table. It is the keyword to unlock funding for forward-leaning ideas and the approach toward cutting ou...

May 21, 2018
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[Colin Irwin and Yoon Seong-won] A tale of two peace processes: Korea and Cyprus

All peace processes are different, different peoples, histories, places, time lines and how they got in the mess they are in and how to get out of it. This is true of Cyprus and Korea but there are a...

May 20, 2018
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[Trudy Rubin] Truth about Gaza: 3 myths keeping US, Jerusalem from owning up to their roles in the crisis

The knee-jerk reaction in the White House and Israel to the recent violence in Gaza is to blame Hamas and be done with it. The radical Hamas organization that controls Gaza drove thousands of Palesti...

May 20, 2018
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[Ramesh Ponnuru] Furor over Trump’s ‘animals’ remark misses the point

One of the oddities of our political moment is how frequently we are asked to tease out the layers of meaning of remarks by President Donald Trump as though he had chosen them with the care of a good...

May 20, 2018
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[Christopher Balding] China’s economy is too frail to force open

The US demands that China either open up to increased foreign competition or agree on hard targets for boosting imports that overlook the weakness of that nation’s economy. If President Donald Trump’...

May 20, 2018
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[David Ignatius] Trump is fomenting a trans-Atlantic rift

President Trump’s dismissive treatment of Europe is beginning to erode the trans-Atlantic alliance, which for many decades has been the central pillar of US national-security policy. The growing Eur...

May 20, 2018
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[Stein Ringen] Putin fights for his empire

Russia’s behavior under Vladimir Putin seems baffling. Neighboring countries invaded: Georgia and the Ukraine. Crimea annexed. A covert war waged in eastern Ukraine. In Syria, chemical weapons and in...

May 18, 2018
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[Noah Smith] US social safety net has improved a lot

There’s a common misperception that the US is the land of small government, where the poor receive little assistance. To many on the left, the US is a uniquely bad actor, eschewing the enlightened so...

May 18, 2018
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[Dhondup Wangchen] Putting Tibet back on the agenda

In 2001, when Beijing was selected to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, expectations were high that China’s human rights performance would improve in the international spotlight. Even Chinese officials ...

May 17, 2018
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