Opinion
I Have Covered This March Before. It Loses Every Time.
The senior correspondent at large files a history of men in matching outfits announcing the future, and of the archive drawer that collects them.
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Opinion
Columnists in public intellectual reckoning, plus the Wire Desk opinion files that treat binders and escalators with unusual seriousness.
Opinion
The Non-Condemnation: A Style Guide For The Professionally Careful
The opinion desk publishes a construction manual for the statement that condemns everything, names nothing, and survives every news cycle.
Opinion
Trump Considers Writing Own Testament For Bible After Concluding One Book Was Not Enough
Prof. Eleanor Watts treats the proposed Trump Testament as an executive-power problem, a publishing problem, and an assignment she would like the record to show she resisted.
Opinion
The Correction Cycle, or: How I Learned to Stop Fact-Checking and Read the Actual Data
A former cable anchor looks at the spreadsheet and discovers that the cleanest sentence is also the most irritating one.
Opinion
My Predictive Model Has Required Significant Recalibration
Prof. Eleanor Watts explains why her model failed, why she still stands by her values, and why the spreadsheet now opens with less hostility.
Opinion
Eight Presidents. One Typewriter. Some Notes.
The senior correspondent at large compares presidents, errors, and press habits without raising his voice.
Opinion
In Defense of the Well-Done Steak, Part II: I Was Right and Jean-Pierre Knows It
The steak discourse continues, Jean-Pierre writes in, and Simone follows the thread from Miami to Mar-a-Lago.
Opinion
I Was Wrong: The Big Binder Was Right About Everything
Buck Ledger reflects on the rare policy document that seemed to nod back.
Opinion
The Media Still Refuses To Cover How Presidential That Escalator Looked
Our media desk revisits a descent that allegedly changed vertical transportation forever.