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Style
How My Worst Date Ever Became My Best
Agreeing to see him again would require a minor miracle. A minor miracle is exactly what happened.Sometimes it takes more time and events.
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Climate
A Trillion Trees: How One Idea Triumphed Over Trump’s Climate Denialism
A tech billionaire’s PowerPoint brought the Trillion Trees climate plan to the president, a textbook case of ad hoc policymaking in the Trump era.The fossil fuel industries must not be preserved.
Billions will die.
If the fossil fuels continue more billions of people will die.
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Travel
‘In Italy I Kept Meeting Guys’: The Black Women Who Travel for Love
Despite Italy’s troubles with racism, African-American women are traveling to the country for love, and finding it.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Baker
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World
Coronavirus Infection Found After Cruise Ship Passengers Disperse
Amid assurances that the Westerdam was disease free, hundreds of people disembarked in Cambodia and headed for airports. One was later found to be infected.Pointless panic.
The virus is much more widespread than the Chinese quarantine authorities admit.
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U.S.
Trump Lashes Out at Manchin, and He Pushes Back
The West Virginia Democrat, who dashed President Trump’s hopes for a bipartisan acquittal, said his vote to convict was not about politics.Trump remains guilty.
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Opinion
The Right’s Big Lie About Roger Stone
Trump allies are saying Stone didn’t really threaten a witness. They’re wrong.Trump's allies parrot Trump.
When Trump lies, the rest of them repeat the lies.
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Travel
Recline in Your Airplane Seat? A Debate Rages in the Skies and Online
You’re either a recliner or you’re not. There appears to be no middle seat here.The airlines have reduced the space taken by a seated passenger to the point that
reclining conflicts with other positions.
The airlines must remove the reclining feature from the cheap seats.
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U.S.
Barr Says Attacks From Trump Make Work ‘Impossible’
The attorney general said that the president’s attacks on prosecutors’ handling of his friend Roger Stone’s sentencing undermine the legal system and the Justice Department.Trump probably agrees with Barr and considers it an accomplishment.
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World
A Store, a Chalet, an Unsealed Pipe: Coronavirus Hot Spots Flare Far From Wuhan
A handful of buildings around the world have been linked to multiple cases of the new virus, raising fears of rapid transmission.The facts are obscured.
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World
How Dresden Looked After a World War II Firestorm 75 Years Ago
Germany commemorated 75 years since the Allied bombing devastated the city. But the milestone has taken on new meaning with the rise of the far right.I was shown arial film of Dresden as a young teen.
The message was actions have consequences.
War is always destructive. Dresden was a minor destruction.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias
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U.S.
Trump Lashes Out at Manchin, and He Pushes Back
The West Virginia Democrat, who dashed President Trump’s hopes for a bipartisan acquittal, said his vote to convict was not about politics.Trump does not know how to move on.
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U.S.
Barr Says Attacks From Trump Make Work ‘Impossible’
The attorney general said that the president’s attacks on prosecutors’ handling of his friend Roger Stone’s sentencing undermine the legal system and the Justice Department.I agree. Work is impossible.
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Opinion
The Right’s Big Lie About Roger Stone
Trump allies are saying Stone didn’t really threaten a witness. They’re wrong.Trump lies.
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Climate
A Trillion Trees: How One Idea Triumphed Over Trump’s Climate Denialism
A tech billionaire’s PowerPoint brought the Trillion Trees climate plan to the president, a textbook case of ad hoc policymaking in the Trump era.Window dressing.
A carbon tax is necessary.
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World
A Store, a Chalet, an Unsealed Pipe: Coronavirus Hot Spots Flare Far From Wuhan
A handful of buildings around the world have been linked to multiple cases of the new virus, raising fears of rapid transmission.China must look like it is trying.
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Opinion
I Worry About Sanders, and His Coattails
Can he win, and if so, can he help elect a Democratic Senate so he can accomplish something?All I can do is hope.
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Opinion
Can Trump Tell the Justice Department To Do Whatever He Wants?
Not according to the Constitution.The editorial board gets it right.
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Business
To Tame Coronavirus, Mao-Style Social Control Blankets China
Despite their high-tech tools, the authorities are mainly relying on a flood of workers to keep hundreds of millions of people from coming in contact with outsiders.China may be doing the right thing.
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New York
The Guerrilla Car Washers of N.Y.C.
Development is finally coming to the top of Manhattan. Are its carwash vans doomed?Yes but not this month or this year.
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Opinion
Trump and Barr Are Out of Control
The prosecutor who quit over the Roger Stone sentencing is sending a powerful message about political weaponization.These are skilled lawyers.
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