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Beyond Copenhagen
The United States must take the lead in lowering global emissions by delivering on any promises made at the talks in Denmark.
A Bishop’s Words
It is chilling to read Bishop Edward Egan’s response to the alleged accounts of child abuse by priests in recently released documents.
Concerns About Comcast-NBC
The pairing of the nation’s largest cable company with one of the leading television broadcasters could limit choices and raise prices for viewers and advertisers.
Letters
Shannon Freshwater
Multimedia
Bloggingheads: Tiger and Race
Hanna Rosin, left, of Double X and Ann Althouse of the University of Wisconsin Law School debate Tiger Woods and race.
Columnists
PAUL KRUGMAN
An Affordable Truth
History shows that cap and trade, a system specifically designed to bring the power of market incentives to bear on environmental problems, does work.
ROSS DOUTHAT
Europe’s Minaret Moment
If the more perfect union promised by the Lisbon Treaty is the European elite’s greatest triumph, the failure to integrate Muslim immigrants represents its greatest failure.
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Op-Ed Contributors
Cap and Fade
President Obama’s cap and trade plan does little to slow global warming. A carbon tax would be a better approach.
Opinionator
Home Fires
Interview With an Iraqi Translator
During a chance meeting in London, a U.S. veteran and an Iraqi translator revisit early days of the Iraq war.
The Score
Advice to Young Composers
On surviving rejection, acclaim, midconcert computer crashes and other obstacles to music.
Al Qaeda in the Cross Hairs
Drone strikes in Pakistan may hit the terrorists, but will they hurt America’s cause more in the end?
The Ghost Ship 'W.W.'
The far side of fame is witnessed in a late-in-life Walter Winchell encounter.
Bo-Tax Backlash
When feminists are fighting a tax on cosmetic surgery, you know the movement has reached a new phase.
Selective Empathy
A death sentence ruling by the Supreme Court shows that it dispenses its mercy selectively.
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I learned about the love of one’s country from an African soccer team, wrote Sean Wilsey.
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