DAVID BROOKS
The Role of Uncle Sam
The debate over Hamilton’s governing philosophy should focus less on whether government is good or evil and more on what government actually does. 
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My one, brief, not-so-shining moment at the National Spelling Bee.
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JOE NOCERA
The Simplicity Solution
One expert has some clever ideas about how to fix the banks. Comment
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End of the Charade
The Chamber of Commerce, and its donors, can’t deny their partisan interests. Comment
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Our Imbecilic Constitution
By SANFORD LEVINSON
The worst single part of the Constitution is surely Article V, which has made it among the most difficult to amend of any in the world.
Frank Bruni is off today.
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Sentences Crisp, Sassy, Stirring
By CONSTANCE HALE
Different sentences carry different weight, and we can craft them not just to get an idea across, but also to convey attitude or elicit emotion.
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When Do Kids Become Adults?
Do the age requirements for certain rights — voting, drinking, legal consent — need to be lowered or raised? Shouldn’t they at least be consistent?
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Unsafe Behind Bars
Long-delayed mandatory rape prevention policies from the Justice Department should help curb the epidemic of sexual assaults.
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Political Money Talks
A look at the motives behind a $500,000 donation to Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin, who faces a recall vote next month, should give voters no doubt about the real business in the state capitol.
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A Fair Way to Handle Trash
It is time for all residents of New York City to accept their share of the city’s garbage problem, including those on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
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Russia's Temps
By MASHA GESSEN
The people running Russia and its cities — and its garbage disposal — act as though they’re not planning to stick around past tomorrow.
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‘Mommy Wars’ Redux: A False Conflict
By AMY ALLEN
The conflict is not one between motherhood and feminism, but within feminism itself.
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In Medicine, Falling for Fake Innovation
By EZEKIEL J. EMANUEL
We need to stop glorifying every new technology as an innovation. New matters only when it's proved better than what we had before.
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Symbol of War, Now an American Teenager
A dozen years ago, a girl in Sierra Leone became an unlikely symbol of human depravity. The Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof finds she’s now just a typical high school freshman in Washington.
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The G.O.P.'s Spending Addiction
By JULIET LAPIDOS
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Our Imbecilic Constitution
By SANFORD LEVINSON
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