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Bottlenecks in Training Doctors
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Our current medical education system is ill-equipped to train the number of professionals we need. 
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Souther Salazar
Opinion
The Future of Robot Caregivers
By LOUISE ARONSON
Elderly people need everyday help, and there aren’t enough humans to provide it.
ROSS DOUTHAT
The Parent Trap
Hover over your children or the neighborhood busybodies and the police may step in. Comments
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
And Now for a Bit of Good News . . .
From taxi rides to overnight stays, the sharing economy is growing rapidly, and creating a village where your reputation is everything. Comments
NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Who’s Right and Wrong in the Middle East?
With Israeli troops in Gaza again, there’s a symmetry in the rhetoric by partisans on both sides of the conflict.
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The End of ‘Genius’
By JOSHUA WOLF SHENK
The idea of the solitary creator is a myth that has outlived its usefulness.
Editorial
The Media Merger Arms Race
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Media companies like Fox try to get bigger and bigger, but consumers are the ones who will pay a heavy price.
Editorial
Payday Lenders Set the Debt Trap
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
In the wake of the ACE settlement, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau needs to attack the entire payday industry.
Op-Art
Usher Signals
By BEN SCHOTT
Many ushers communicate during church services using a sequence of hand signals called the “National Silent Uniform System.” Here are some of the central elements of these signals.
Opinion
Our Love Affair With the Mug Shot
By MEGAN ABBOTT
The Jeremy Meeks phenomenon is the latest episode in America’s long romance with the mug shots of criminal suspects.
Opinion
Putin’s Deadly Doctrine
By TIMOTHY GARTON ASH
The right to protect one’s “people” — where does it end? In blood.
Opinion
Scottish Independence Is Inevitable
By NEAL ASCHERSON
Whether or not Scots opt for independence in September, the referendum will have changed perceptions of what’s possible.
Opinion
Dislocation, Italian Style
By HOLLY BRUBACH
I realized that my assumptions about medicine were in keeping with my American outlook on life, which, like it or not, revolves around money.
Dispatch
Real Adventurers Read Maps
By STEVEN KURUTZ
Listening to a GPS takes all the action and serendipity out of travel.
Black Southern Voters, Poised to Play a Historic Role
By NATE COHN
Thanks to migration and other forces, Southern blacks may play a larger role in 2014 than in any national election since Reconstruction. Comments
ARTHUR C. BROOKS
Love People, Not Pleasure
What do fame, wealth and lots of sex bring? Exactly the opposite of what you think. Comments
Gray Matter
How Tests Make Us Smarter
By HENRY L. ROEDIGER III
Low-stakes quizzing helps people retain more of what they learn.
MARGARET SULLIVAN
Offering Clarity, but Blurring Lines, Too
When Nate Silver left The Times, the paper replaced his blog with The Upshot. For some readers, this has taken a little getting used to. Comments
Quick History
A Week of Agony, From Eastern Ukraine to the Gaza Strip
By SERGE SCHMEMANN
There are times when the endless crises and conflicts of our times reach such paroxysms of senseless tragedy that the world cries out for a halt.
Opinionator | Draft
What Writers Can Learn From ‘Good Night Moon’
By AIMEE BENDER
The children’s book sets up a world and then subverts its own rules even as it follows them.
Sunday Dialogue
Superpowers of the Web
David Jien
Readers discuss the business practices of dominant Internet companies like Facebook and Google.
The Strip
Affordable Infrastructure Improvements
Brian McFadden
We’re letting the invisible hand of the free market fix broken traffic signals from now on.
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Shekhar Garde
By KATE MURPHY
The chemical engineer behind the film “Molecules to the Max” on cricket, ragas and Richard Feynman.
Opinionator | Private Lives
The Mystery in the Machine
By ROBIN RINALDI
I imagined the sonogram: a grainy image of the fetus, and then a thumping sound, like a signal from deep space.
Opinionator | Fixes
When Poverty Makes You Sick, a Lawyer Can Be the Cure
By TINA ROSENBERG
Legal and medical professionals are joining forces to treat the social and environmental factors that make poor people sick.
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President Obama Weighs In on the Malaysian Airliner Crisis
By ANDREW ROSENTHAL
July 18, 2014, 1:32 PM
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