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Failed trans mission
Opinion How activists broke up the coalition gay marriage built
By Mark Gimein Published
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News overload
Opinion Too much breaking news is breaking us
By Theunis Bates Published
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All about Zealandia, the Earth's potential 8th continent
The Explainer The secret continent went undiscovered for over 300 years
By Devika Rao, The Week US Last updated
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It does happen here
Opinion Our long history of rounding people up and kicking them out
By Susan Caskie Published
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Taking away the car keys
Opinion Getting old demands acceptance of necessary losses
By William Falk Published
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The road to theocracy
Opinion When justices and presidents promote one religion
By William Falk Published
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Death of a dissident
Opinion How Navalny's fight against Putin will endure
By Susan Caskie Published
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An all-purpose apology
opinion Ready? Bring in the media
By William Falk Last updated
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Editor's Letter: Left, right, and nowhere
feature If it’s true we get the media we deserve, what does it say about us that good old reliable, earnest CNN is in a tailspin?
By The Week Staff Last updated
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Editor's Letter: Cape Wind
feature We’d all like to believe we arrive at our political positions through careful, dispassionate analysis, but the truth is that they are often the product of naked self-interest, tribal identification, and/or gut-deep prejudices.
By The Week Staff Last updated
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Editor's Letter: Do Americans have a right to medical care?
feature Once you endow citizens with certain inalienable rights, you set in motion a process that’s hard to stop.
By The Week Staff Last updated
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Editor's Letter: The upside to creative destruction
feature For music fans, there is an upside to creative destruction. On a Woodstock stage recently, I watched a friend stretch her lungs in some of the open space left by the industry’s retreat.
By The Week Staff Last updated
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Editor's Letter: If the Tea Party were black
feature For the sake of this exercise, imagine that members of Congress in March had been surrounded by thousands of angry African-Americans, yelling insults at white, Southern politicians.
By The Week Staff Last updated
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Editor's Letter: “What is your dream job?”
feature The danger in reading polls is that you discover things about your neighbors you’d prefer not to know. Take, for example, the recent Marist poll that asked our fellow Americans, “What is your dream job?”
By The Week Staff Last updated
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