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The politicization of everything continues apace, to our peril.
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People are putting torches to the rules, but all they know how to do is complain about the other teams’ smoke.
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He’s stretching the law on the assumption that he can buy himself time.
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It hasn’t reformed. It’s not a partner. And it wants an emirate far more than inclusion in the ‘international community.’
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When people are distracted by a zillion different things, the most reliable way to get them to look your way is to say crazy stuff.
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He’s wanted to get out of Afghanistan since he was vice president. It didn’t matter whether the time was right or not.
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The government can’t love you, and when it works from the premise that it can, folly or tyranny follow.
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This is not the way to get out of this war.
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It’s good that norms against piggishness are strengthening. But it’s dismaying that the more important norms Cuomo violated seem to be weakening.
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It’s not just a dumb and bad model for the United States. It's an impossible one.
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The pandemic and its attendant stress have turned otherwise normal people into unruly passengers, poorly behaved consumers, and worse.
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A culture obsessed with the performance of language thinks it can solve problems just by finding the right vocabulary to describe them.
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