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11 of Our Most Memorable Pieces from 2025
Revisit writing from this year that we’re proud to have run.
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The GOP War on Nurses
To pay for tax cuts, Republicans cut graduate student loan support for female-dominated professions. That turns out to be bad policy and terrible politics.
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NATO’s Myopic Accounting Ignores Maritime Superpower Greece
The alliance demands its members spend 2 percent of GDP on defense, but its green-eye shade focus ignores Athens’ massive sealift capacity.
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Donald Trump’s Go-it-Alone America
Trump’s uniquely toxic brand of “self-reliance” threatens the collective strength that truly makes America great.
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Death By Lightning Shows Why a Professional Civil Service Matters
Donald Trump wants to bring back the spoils system. The Netflix miniseries is an entertaining tale of why we should never do that.
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Brown, Bondi Beach, and the Reiners: The Murderous December
Shocking slayings and the background of Trump’s dysfunction cast a pall over the holidays.
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What’s Wrong with The American Revolution by Ken Burns
The acclaimed filmmaker’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the political history of the Revolution remains strangely understated.
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