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Opinion | Covid-19 Data Is a Mess. We Need a Way to Make Sense of It.

The United States is more than eight months into the pandemic and people are back waiting in long lines to be tested as coronavirus infections surge again. And yet there is still no federal standard to ensure testing results are being uniformly reported. Without uniform results, it is impossible to track cases accurately or respond […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 24, 2020, 1:15 am
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Opinion | Trump Contrives His Stab-in-the-Back Myth

The word Dolchstosslegende is hard to pronounce but important to understand. It translates as “stab-in-the-back myth” and was a key element in the revival of German militarism in the Weimar years. Even modestly educated Germans know exactly what it denotes and the evil it entails. Donald Trump and his legal team are now contriving their […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 24, 2020, 12:56 am
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Opinion | Trump Wars II: The Loser Strikes Back

In a classic bank run, for example, depositors rush to get their money out, even if they believe that the bank is fundamentally sound, because they know that the run itself can cause the institution to collapse. Which is where public agencies like the Fed come in. We’ve known since the 19th century that such […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 23, 2020, 11:30 pm
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Opinion | Can This Get Any More Pathetic?

Gail Collins: Bret, we’re living through a time of extreme crisis: a sitting president refusing to acknowledge his re-election defeat. But when we look back I have a feeling our sharpest memory will be Rudy Giuliani’s melting hairline. Hoping that now you will tell me I’m too shallow … Bret Stephens: Not at all, Gail. […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 23, 2020, 4:41 pm
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Opinion | China Disappeared My Professor. It Can’t Silence His Poetry.

In the 2000s, Uighur anthropologist Rahile Dawut began recording these documents of collective memory, which provide grassroots perspectives on local history. In the Qumul region of eastern Xinjiang, for example, Dawut recorded an epic recounting a 17th-century insurrection against the Zunghar Mongols following their bloody conquest of Qumul. “Listen as I share the past,” sang […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 23, 2020, 4:27 pm
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Opinion | Trump’s Legal Farce Is Having Tragic Results

Dilatory tactics like delaying certification or recounts will be rejected by courts or governors, and not even a single state legislature (much less three) seems eager to incur the wrath of the American people through a power grab that would violate the rule of law, trigger massive street protests and call the legislators’ own elections […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 23, 2020, 4:02 pm
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Opinion | Biden Can Inspire Latin America

Likewise, on drug enforcement, even if Mr. Biden continues the traditional American war on drugs far away from United States borders, the announced legalization of marijuana will send a dramatically different message to every Latin American drug-producing or transiting country. Such a radical change, at a federal level, in the American drug-enforcement policy and attitudes, […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 23, 2020, 11:29 am
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Opinion | Myanmar Still Loves Aung San Suu Kyi, but Not Why You Think

Then there is demography. Decades of a “Burmanization” policy, a systematic effort to culturally assimilate the country’s very many ethnic groups, have further institutionalized benefits and privileged access to public services for the majority Bamar ethnic group. Another effect has been to change the composition and balance of the population in some ethnic regions, typically […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 23, 2020, 7:46 am
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Opinion | Vandalizing Our Democracy

Furthermore, the damage Trump has attempted to do to faith in the American election system has been wildly, depressingly, successful. A Politico/Morning Consult poll earlier this month found that “70 percent of Republicans now say they don’t believe the 2020 election was free and fair, a stark rise from the 35 percent of G.O.P. voters […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 23, 2020, 12:20 am
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Opinion | A Great Election, Against All Odds

It is neither wise nor realistic to count on this sort of mobilization happening every four years. “The smoothness of the election was not self-executing,” said Vanita Gupta, the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, an organization that supports voting rights. “Don’t lose sight of how much work we did to […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 22, 2020, 11:30 pm
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Opinion | The E.U. Puts Its Foot Down on the Rule of Law

After years of passively watching nationalist governments in Hungary and Poland undermine democratic rule, the European Union finally drew the line this year and declared that disbursements from the E.U. budget and a special coronavirus relief fund would be contingent on each member’s adherence to the rule of law. Hungary and Poland have shamelessly retaliated […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 22, 2020, 8:17 pm
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Opinion | An Orderly Transition Is Essential for National Security

Together, along with eight others in a bipartisan group of commissioners, we worked to understand the circumstances that led to the attacks, and to provide recommendations to guard against future ones. We understood then what should be evident now: Matters of national security must transcend domestic political division. Today, as our country faces vast foreign […] More

by Tonya Frazier November 22, 2020, 8:00 pm

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