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New York Times OpEd

Editorial: A Tougher Car Safety Agency

Democrats in Congress are pushing legislation to improve regulation and oversight of auto safety. It should be passed into law without delay.

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Editorial: The Fight Over Education in Washington

Forces of the status quo are trying to discredit President Obama?s signature education initiative, the Race to the Top.

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Editorial: Detention and the Disabled

A new report lays out in unsettling detail the burdens faced by a particularly vulnerable group: immigrants with mental disabilities.

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Editorial: Feckless and Cruel

There should have been swift, bipartisan approval of a plan to aid ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers. Instead, there was an ugly political brawl.

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Letters: Using Test Scores to Evaluate Learning

Readers respond to a recent editorial.

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Letters: Should Food Advertising to Children Be Restricted?

Readers respond to a recent article.

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Letter: From Guantánamo to Algeria: An Unwilling Repatriate

A reader responds to a recent editorial.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Let?s Make It Real

In the age of ?Jersey Shore,? there?s a dissolving boundary between reality and reality.

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Op-Ed Columnist: A Sin and a Shame

So long as American corporations keep squeezing their work forces, there can be no real economic recovery.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Obama?s ?Race? War

The fight between the left and the right over which side is most racist is really about the president. Will he step in to stop it?

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Op-Ed Contributor: Protecting America?s Afghan Allies

How to learn from our failure to help our Vietnamese friends.

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Arizona's Law, Activist Judges and Anchor Babies

A court ruling banning parts of Arizona's new law on aliens has put immigration at the front and center of the mid-term elections.

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When Less Was No Longer More

The rise of postmodern architecture began at home.

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Voting Behind Bars

In taking up the issue of voting rights for felons, the Supreme Court is forcing a public conversation about race on the Obama administration.

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The Burqa and the Body Electric

The clash between religious liberty and the state goes back centuries. Is there a way to move past it?

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In Praise of Progress

Is life better now than in years past?

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New York State of Mind

For New York transplants, getting to know your adopted city means learning to relate to its streets and buildings in an intimate way.

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Is Religion Special?

A followup, including responses to reader comments, to last week's column on ideology and neutrality.

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Varied Views of Bloody Coves

Video scenes of the latest slaughter of marine mammals in a bloody cove are interpreted very differently by different factions.

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Lessons From Two Important Climate Forecasts

A great climate scientist is defined by his successful forecast of warming and his acceptance that another forecast was flawed.

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Views on Carbon Caps, Sustainability Science

An Apollo science project to balance human actions and the planet's limits

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Weekend Competition: The Saddest Words in the English Language

This weekend, co-vocabularists are invited to submit the saddest words in the English language.

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VBAC

Acronym for Vaginal Birth After Caesarean.

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Daily Lexeme: Sinicize

To invest with a Chinese character.

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