Editor's Letter
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Editor's Letter: Reforming America’s public schools
feature At the conventions of the two national teachers unions this month, President Obama was persona non grata and Education Secretary Arne Duncan was denounced in absentia.
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Editor's Letter: Christopher Hitchens confronts cancer
feature Suddenly faced with mortality, Hitchens has begun his last assignment, explaining in his droll, sharply observed prose his “deportation” to the land of the gravely sick.
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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?”
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Editor's Letter: Labor Day
feature All of this has left Labor Day feeling increasingly like summer’s other bookend, Memorial Day. It has acquired a wistful, elegiac air, its parade steeped in past glory and present anxieties.
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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.
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Editor's Letter: Total transparency or rebellion?
feature Have you ever sent a snarky e-mail you wouldn’t want published?
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Editor's Letter: Groping our way forward
feature In moments of distress and panic, it is tempting to succumb to ideologies that promise a single, simple solution to the mess that is the human condition.
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Editor's Letter: Good cheer for the Fourth
feature With oil menacing our shores and enmity and suspicion tearing at our polity this Fourth, we can all use a story too good to check.
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Editor's Letter: The money-happiness nexus
feature A study of more than 136,000 people in 132 countries was the first to differentiate between “life satisfaction”—respondents’ overall sense of how it’s going—and day-to-day emotions like feeling upbeat or blah.
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Editor's Letter: The reverberations of 9/11
feature Like Stalin and Mao and Hitler before him, Osama bin Laden was a one-man pivot point in history.
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Editor's Letter: The fate of ex-tyrants
feature Tyrants enjoy a very comfortable life, but it’s not much fun anymore being a former tyrant.
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Editor's Letter: Microbial ecosystems
feature I was recently reminded of the might of microorganisms when I got food poisoning from a sausage-borne pathogen on a slice of pizza.
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Editor's Letter: Coping with the Mets
feature At times, I try to will myself to care less, but my professions of emotional distance are fraudulent.
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Editor's Letter: The mathematics of real life
feature Two brave mathematicians have stepped forward to argue that students with no aptitude for higher math should track to courses that provide “quantitative literacy.”
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