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The Long Trip Home
What was already a fraught process has become even more convoluted in the COVID-19 era. Bureaucratic holdups and infrequent international…
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A Cautionary Tale of Workplace Harassment in the Cuomo Administration
When Kimberly Schiavone, an employee of New York State’s Division of Criminal Justice Services, read about the Cuomo administration’s attempts…
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The Passing of Prince Philip
The last new thing that the public learned about Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died on Friday morning,…
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Why It’s So Hard for America to End Its Wars
In March, General Kenneth (Frank) McKenzie, Jr., an Alabama-born marine who commands U.S. forces in the Middle East and South…
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How Can We Continue to Keep Schools Relatively Safe from the Coronavirus?
In late March, New York’s public high schools reopened for in-person instruction. Elementary schools have been offering some in-person instruction…
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Finally, Green Infrastructure Spending in an Amount That Starts with a “T”
The U.S. federal government is proposing to spend a sum of money that starts with a “T” on an infrastructure…
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A Former Obama Official on the “Interlocking Set of Failures” at the Border
Last month, a record high of nearly nineteen thousand unaccompanied children from Central America arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border. The…
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Have the Democrats Begun a New Era of Big Government?
Judging from last year’s Democratic primaries, few would have believed that former Vice-President Joe Biden would be leading the Democratic…
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Clubhouse Feels Like a Party
What was everyone talking about? Sometime last spring, in the early weeks of the pandemic, people in and around the…
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There Are No Borders in a Climate Crisis
The “crisis” at the border is dominating the news, and, as my colleague Jonathan Blitzer has written, the immediate focus…
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