CHARLES M. BLOW
Race, to the Finish
Let’s review how we got to this point where African-Americans vote so overwhelmingly Democratic and are suspicious of Republican motives. 
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A Major Breakthrough on Climate Change
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
After years of futile efforts, China and the United States agree to cooperate in a meaningful way on global warming.
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A Response to President Xi Jinping
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ROGER COHEN
Mere Human Behavior
Few resist. In a time of terror the mass is enthusiastic, compliant, calculating or cowed. Comments
GAIL COLLINS
The Lame-Duck Dynasty
Keeping up with Congress these days is almost like watching a reality TV show. What would we name it? Comments
NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Politicians, Teens and Birth Control
Teenagers may be terrible at planning ahead, but politicians and our country are, too, by failing to invest in comprehensive sex education and birth control. Comments
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LINDA GREENHOUSE
Law in the Raw
The Supreme Court’s decision to take up the Affordable Care Act again raises a question: Is it a court? Or a collection of politicians in robes? Comments
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Myanmar Needs Time
By U SOE THANE
The government is committed to democratic transition, but the challenges are immense.
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Ebola and the Lost Children of Sierra Leone
By CHERNOR BAH
Shutting schools doesn’t assure safety from Ebola. It damages chances for a nation’s recovery.
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Protect Those Who Protect Our Food
By JACOB E. GERSEN and BENJAMIN I. SACHS
We need new labor laws for restaurant, farm and slaughterhouse workers. Comments
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Under the Ships in the Suez Canal
By JULI BERWALD
Alec Doherty
Invasive species are crossing into the Mediterranean.
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Colombia’s Compromise With Murder
By JOSÉ MIGUEL VIVANCO and MAX SCHOENING
Pending legislation may deny justice to innocent Colombians killed by a military obsessed with body counts. Comments
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Whose Work Is Homework?
Should parents help their children with homework? Or do they end up doing more harm than good?
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The Burning of Atlanta
By MEGAN KATE NELSON
Why the Union destroyed the Georgia city, through the eyes of one Union officer.
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Why I Don’t Kill Myself
By KIM ADDONIZIO
Little by little, the slow third-world bus of my demons had been making its way back to me.
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The Food Carts at a Temple of Fine Art
Hannah Chi
Readers question the museum’s position and ask what the city’s rules are for vendors.
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Campaign Contributions: Does Money Equal Speech?
Readers respond to a column by Joe Nocera, “Big Money Wins Again in a Romp.”
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Marijuana Arrests
Edward Lemansky, a reader, writes that “the real issue is selective enforcement.”
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A Woman of Many Lands
Mary Buhr, a reader, shares her experience of acquiring citizenship in Germany and the United States.
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The Civil Rights of Pregnant Women
Doctors discuss medical ethics and the concepts of patient autonomy and informed consent.
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Stop China’s Ivory Trade
Aviva Cantor, an animal-rights activist, urges the United States and others to press China.
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A Global Agricultural Nightmare
Industrialized agriculture is without doubt the most environmentally destructive human technology.
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‘Re-enacting the Vietnam War’
By MIKE ATTIE and MEGHAN O’HARA
Each year in Oregon, a group of men gather to re-create a war that so many Americans have tried to forget. Comments
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