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Opinion Learning From the Bomb
Six decades after our nation unleashed the nuclear age by dropping atomic bombs on Japan, fully three-fifths of Americans believe a new world war is likely within their lifetimes. That’s the main finding of a new poll conducted by the Associated Press and a Japanese news agency in early July, to mark the August 6…
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Opinion Judging Roberts
Years from now, when historians try to explain George W. Bush’s influence on the American political landscape, they may well start by pointing to July 19, 2005, the day he nominated John Roberts to the Supreme Court. In choosing Roberts, Bush appears to have found the combination that has eluded conservatives for a quarter-century in…
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Opinion Showdown in the Desert
The running confrontation in the Negev desert this week between Jewish settlers attempting to march into Gaza and Israeli troops determined to stop them was more than just another policy dispute. It was the opening of the deepest fissure yet in a gaping abyss that is dividing Israel in two and could ultimately swallow the…
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Opinion The Illusions of London
Sixteen years ago, the Israeli folk-rocker Chava Alberstein went platinum with a searing song of despair about the unbearable uncertainty of life in Israel and the yearning to move someplace else where life could be simpler and safer. It was called “London.” “Goodbye, I’m going,” she sang. “Not that I have illusions about London. I’ll…
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Opinion Welcoming the New Jews
The question is so obvious, you have to wonder why nobody thought of asking it before: If only one-quarter to one-third of children in interfaith families are raised “in the Jewish faith,” as repeated surveys have shown, what becomes of the others? Do they become Christians? Do they melt into the broader population, with never…
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Opinion The Line of Decency
There’s something tedious about the continual back-and-forth between Republicans and Democrats accusing one another of abusing the memory of the Holocaust. First there was Senator Robert Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat, comparing Republican threats to cancel the filibuster in March with Nazi manipulation of German law during the 1930s. That prompted an angry retort from…
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Opinion Breyer’s Wisdom
Just about everybody seems to have found something to hate in this week’s twinned Supreme Court decisions on public displays of the Ten Commandments. Liberals disliked the 5-4 ruling by which the justices allowed a Commandments monument to remain on the grounds of the Texas state Capitol. Conservatives hated the other 5-4 ruling, barring the…
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Opinion Nickels and Dimes
Given the magnitude of the crisis, there is cause to celebrate this week in the tentative accord on African debt relief that was reached in Washington between President Bush and the visiting British prime minister, Tony Blair. Thanks to Blair’s persuasiveness, Bush has now agreed to lift America’s objections and let the World Bank proceed…
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