Ideas
Arguments. Essays. Inquiries.
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Reuters Can Freedom of the Press Survive David Pecker?
The National Enquirer pushed the limits of journalistic norms—and in the process called into question the legal protections enjoyed by the media.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters A Turning Point for Sextortion
Jeff Bezos’s public stand might help more vulnerable victims.
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How a Forever War Ends
Trump might well wrap up the war in Afghanistan, but only by giving up on America’s original goals.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters A Temporary Win for Abortion Rights
Pro-choice advocates shouldn’t get their hopes up after the Supreme Court put a Louisiana statute on hold.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Are All Instances of Blackface Alike?
Perhaps there is a difference between donning it to mock black people and donning it to resemble someone, as Mark Herring did.
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Leah Millis / Reuters A Confederacy of Grift
The subjects of Robert Mueller’s investigation are cashing in.
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Andrew Burton / Reuters Unions Need to Think Small to Get Big
Organized labor can reverse its decline by focusing on smaller workplaces—and using digital tools to organize them.
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Reuters The Costs and Benefits of Worlds Colliding
Readers weigh in on the ways that social media has changed our freedom to show different aspects of our identities in different domains.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters My Friend, John Dingell
He approached policy with a unique blend of ferocity and tact, and he loved his constituents deeply.
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Mike Theiler / Reuters The ACLU Moves to Embrace Due Process on Title IX
The civil-liberties organization now favors many of the protections proposed by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
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Reuters How the ‘U-S-A’ Chant Became a Political Weapon
A once-simple refrain has now become weighted with conflicting political meanings.
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Reuters The State of the Union Was Political Malpractice
Trump could have used the address to improve his low approval ratings—but he only dug deeper.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters Why the Wall Will Never Rise
Trump is no match for the Texas border barons.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Cory Booker Is Damned If He Does, Damned If He Doesn’t
For a black candidate, expressing anger is risky. But in the post-Obama Democratic Party, not expressing anger is risky, too.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters What We Heard in Caracas
Trump opened the door for change in Venezuela. Now he risks closing it.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Throwback Democrat
Sherrod Brown could help his party win back white working-class voters—but he’s out of sync with the mercilessness of American politics.
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Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters How Globalization Saved the World and Damned the West
A dispatch from Davos on the verge of a nervous breakdown
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Will Lamar Alexander Turn on Trump?
Impeachment-focused Democrats need a Republican ally if they’re going to succeed.
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Reuters Trump Shows Why He Can’t Be Counted Out
In his State of the Union address, the president returned to the themes he stressed in 2016, reminding Americans why he remains a formidable candidate.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Trump Doubles Down
In his State of the Union address, the president had the option of reaching out. He chose to stay the course.
