Tears are sacred. They express sadness, communicate joy, signal need and expunge stress. The very act of crying offers us more than just release; it can offer us clarity. Yet we live in an era when public crying is not just undervalued but actively mocked. Collective displays of sadness are dismissed as empty posturing, and…
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News Opinion | The Truth Hurts — Especially When Bill Maher Dishes It Out
He is thinking of giving up stand-up after his next HBO special. “It’s like playing the cello,” he told me. “You got to always be working at it.” On “Club Random,” where he gets stoned and sips tequila and invites guests to partake of pot or their drinks of choice as well (Seinfeld had coffee;…
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News Opinion | It Is Inexcusable How Judge Cannon Is Delaying the Trump Documents Case
The task before Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over the classified documents case of Donald Trump, is not easy. She must protect Mr. Trump’s constitutional rights while also ensuring the prompt and fair administration of justice. Still, it is inexcusable that she is utterly failing to keep the case moving along in a fair…
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News Opinion | Wokeness Is Dying. We Might Miss It.
In her new book, “Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History,” Nellie Bowles, a former New York Times journalist grown disillusioned with both the mainstream media and the left, writes about the year 2020, when the combustible confluence of the pandemic, the murder of George Floyd and the prospect of Donald…
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News Opinion | Political Violence in Slovakia Reminds Us of the Dangers of Polarization
“Fico was shot.” The message arrived in one of my group chats shortly after 3 p.m. on Wednesday. I checked the news and forwarded what I could find out to my friends and family. Information was limited, and headlines like “Robert Fico Was Shot After the Government Meeting in Handlova” seemed absurdly matter-of-fact. Yes, Mr….
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News Opinion | Free Speech Becomes a New Battleground in Abortion Litigation
There has hardly ever been as fierce a defender of free speech as the current Supreme Court. Since John Roberts became chief justice almost 19 years ago, the court has expanded the protective net of the First Amendment to cover such activities as selling videos depicting animal torture, spending unlimited amounts of money in support…
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News Opinion | When ‘Stop the Steal’ Becomes Your Motto
There is a good chance that Donald Trump’s polling lead in the 2024 presidential election is more fragile than it looks. The most immediate problem for him is the fact that he’s on trial in a criminal case. Even if Trump isn’t convicted, the trial keeps him away from the trail. There is also the…
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News Opinion | The Authoritarians Have the Momentum
The central struggle in the world right now is between liberalism and authoritarianism. It’s between those of us who believe in democratic values and those who don’t — whether they are pseudo-authoritarian populists like Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Narendra Modi or Recep Tayyip Erdogan or straight-up dictators like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping or theocratic…
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News Opinion | The View Within Israel Turns Bleak
It was the pictures of Palestinians swimming and sunning at a Gaza beach that rubbed Yehuda Shlezinger, an Israeli journalist, the wrong way. Stylish in round red glasses and a faint scruff of beard, Mr. Shlezinger unloaded his revulsion at the “disturbing” pictures while appearing on Israel’s Channel 12. “These people there deserve death, a…
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News Opinion | Kristi Got Her Gun
Noem certainly shot Cricket on her own, but other passages suggest some pettier motivations. For example, Noem uses the Cricket story to needle President Biden about his own dog, Commander, who was removed from the White House after biting Secret Service agents. “A dog who bites is dangerous and unpredictable (are you listening, Joe Biden?),”…
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