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An all-purpose apology
opinion Ready? Bring in the media
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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?
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Editor's Letter
feature For the first time since I set my heart on a Wham-O Air Blaster back in 1962, I know exactly what I want for Christmas: A cell phone jammer. It’s the hot gift item this year, The New York Times reports, with one British manufacturer logging more than 2,00
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Editor's Letter
feature As oil coats the coastlines of San Francisco Bay and Russia’s Black Sea, its cost is shooting toward $100 a barrel. Pump prices around the country are heading to new records. Yet even if we end up with $5-a-gallon gas, we’ll still be paying less than peop
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Editor's Letter
feature British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is probably sorry he asked. The British certainly have a glorious history and no shortage of stiff upper lips and other laudable national traits. But it turns out that they lack a national motto. So Brown recently invit
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Editor's Letter
feature Forget Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Forget Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee. Right now, the most compelling presidential contender around is Stephen Colbert (see Page 21). It may seem preposterous that a comedian is running for the nation’s highest of
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Editor's Letter
feature When I was just a tad younger, and full of the conviction that comes with a little knowledge, I regarded compromise with contempt. Morality,it seemed to my righteous 25-year-old self, was black and white. People were good, or they were crooks and sellouts
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Editor's Letter
feature Feeling stressed out? You’re in good company. The American Psychological Association released a survey last week showing that nearly a third of American adults suffer from extreme stress, due mostly to money and work pressures, followed closely by the str
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Editor's letter: Peddling “the view from nowhere”
feature Traditional journalism has its flaws and limitations—but without it, we’d have very few facts, lots of argument, and nothing but point-scoring.
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Editor's letter: Nourishing blind certitude
feature Today it’s all too easy to self-select a media environment where one's convictions are never challenged.
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Editor's letter: The fight over Obamacare
feature Is health care a commodity or a right?
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Editor's Letter: Pedestrian Aggressiveness Syndrome (PAS)
feature I didn’t know it had a name, or that there were others like me, until I saw myself described in The Wall Street Journal the other day.
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Editor's Letter: The discovery of extraterrestrial life
feature How will our species react when confronted with proof that life has arisen elsewhere, whether in the form of bacteria, bugs, or intelligent beings?
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Editor's Letter: Advice from the older you
feature If you were to compose a letter to your 16-year-old self, what would you say?
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