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Opinion | We can avoid default with these last-minute belt-tightening measures!

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As the country barrels toward default, the Treasury is apparently scrambling to find extra cash. Every little bit helps! Since there are no...
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Opinion | 25 years after Suharto, Indonesian democracy is worth celebrating

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Comment on this storyCommentIndonesia was in chaos and in danger of splitting apart.When President Suharto stepped down on May 22, 1998, after more...
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Analysis | The debt ceiling blame game, and why Biden has started negotiating

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Comment on this storyCommentPresident Biden has backed off his no-negotiation-only-a-“clean”-increase-will-do approach to the debt ceiling. Ditto House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who...
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Opinion | Ambivalent about abortion, the American middle begins to find its voice

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Comment on this storyCommentIn the year since the Supreme Court restored abortion policy to the status of a state’s political choice, the issue...
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Opinion | Cuba is far more fragile than you think

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Comment on this storyCommentFrom the outside looking in, Cuba might appear to be stable. Last month, Miguel Díaz-Canel won reelection for a second...
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Opinion | Ending the forever war in Gaza means looking at how it really began

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Comment on this storyCommentTime is measured in seconds, from when a news feed announces a “red alert” — incoming missiles from Gaza aimed...
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Opinion | Poetry offered me an anchor as I lost my son, so I shared it

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May 24, 2023 at 6:15 a.m. EDTComment on this storyCommentJosie Glausiusz is a journalist living in Israel who writes about science and the...
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Opinion | Congress should not tell Reagan National how to operate

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Comment on this storyCommentGeorge Allen, a Republican, was governor of Virginia from 1994 to 1998, a U.S. senator from 2001 to 2007, a...
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A Year After the Uvalde Massacre: Did Anything Change?

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The shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last May in some ways changed the conversation yet again on gun violence in...
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This Is What ‘Productive’ Looks Like in Washington as Default Deadline Looms

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said this week that he did not believe Republicans and Democrats were anywhere close to a deal on raising...
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