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Trump’s latest betrayal strengthens the case for impeachment

The president’s willingness to take campaign help from Russia in 2020 is another disturbing sign of his unfitness for office.

Tweets of the Week: Trump at the Olive Garden, #MeToo Advice, and Praise for Papi

A look back at the week in 280 characters.

Readers React: ‘This sounds nice, but it ignores a huge upcoming phenomenon: the “birth dearth”’

Can we really recruit more rural students to colleges and universities?

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That’s a lot of pictures.

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Breakfast on the beach.

Ideas | Peg Tyre
How to survive in an AI world
While American schools move away from a humanities-centered education — and embrace science and math — Japan is tacking in the opposite direction. Who’s right?

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OPINION | BARRY BLUESTONE

Finally — the tiny apartments that millennials need

For years, I’ve been calling for the compact, affordable, amenity-rich apartments that could solve our housing crisis. Now, it looks like they’re on the way.

RuPaul, I owe you an amen

Historically, drag is entertainment by men for men, with queens coopting an exaggerated male view of femalehood to uproarious laughter. Was it okay to chuckle at an all-too-easy version of womanhood, one that denied the complexity of the female conundrum?

Ideas | Tony Rehagen

How educational gatekeepers are overlooking rural kids

We’re starting to understand how educational gatekeepers are overlooking rural kids like me. And that’s become an American-size problem.

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By the number: Put down the bottled water

If you are what you eat, then every single one of us is a little bit plastic.

Ideas | A.J.B. Lane

Godzilla takes on Fenway

The truth is, we have a history of falling for unstoppable titans of one kind or another.

Ideas | Rachel Slade

Elaine Chao’s conflicts of interests could have major consequences

The zealously anti-regulation Trump administration may be open to undermining centuries-old maritime laws that have protected American industry and the country itself since this nation’s founding. And Elaine Chao, mired in conflicts of interest, may be helping to steer that ship.

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Readers react: ‘His calling for Trump’s impeachment has brought him a great deal of press’

Is Justin Amash a profile in courage?


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