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Editorials
The Controversy Over Mammograms
The recent recommendation on mammographies is guidance for women and doctors, and should not be injected into the partisan debate over health care reform.
Iraq’s Election Law Morass
American officials need to help resolve the impasse over election laws in Iraq, and Iraqis must learn how to forge reliable compromises.
A Gift to Credit Card Companies
A Senate bill to move up the effective date of the law protecting consumers from predatory actions by the credit card industry should have become law already.
Letters
Serifcan Özcan
Multimedia
Bloggingheads: Aimless War?
Andrew Bacevich, left, of Boston Univeristy and David Frum of FrumForum debate President Obama's Afghanistan strategy.
The Minefields of Afghanistan
The filmmaker Oliver Englehart follows a local team working to clear mines from a residential area in Afghanistan, where buried explosives are a finite, but persistent problem
Op-Art
License to Shill
Calvin Trillin and Edward Koren on how old establishments are licensing brands to become “hep.”
Columnists
PAUL KRUGMAN
The Big Squander
By not extracting concessions from bankers during the rescue of A.I.G., policy makers undermined their own credibility — and put the broader economy at risk.
DAVID BROOKS
What Geithner Got Right
Timothy F. Geithner, like others on the White House economic team, is pragmatic and responds flexibly to situations, and that approach has paid off during the economic crisis.
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Op-Ed Contributors
Addicted to Mammograms
The public has been led to believe that breast cancer tumors need to be found as early as possible, so convincing people that we are screening too much is an uphill battle.
The Wet Side of the Moon
We can finally begin to think seriously about establishing a self-sufficient settlement on the Moon because of NASA’s discovery of large quantities of water there.
Opinionator
What the Law Commands
The surprising similarities between Chief Justice John Roberts and his newest colleague, Sonia Sotomayor.
Western Men Are Doomed
Are certain groups of people, because of their culture or style of thinking, better suited to handling the problems of the future?
iPols
Two women, both rich, accomplished, confident and full of ideas, are trying to become the fresh face of the G.O.P.
Think Again
Can I Put You on Hold?
We're surrounded by maddening words and expressions, all of them seemingly designed to make us miserable, or at least grumpy.
Home Fires
Scenes From a Marriage
A soldier with P.T.S.D. writes about his relationship with his wife, in sickness and health, in good times and bad.
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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS
Introducing Opinionator
Timothy Egan looks at two leading Republican women, and Gail Collins and David Brooks discuss how groups think.
Linda Greenhouse
What the Law Commands
The similarities between Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Bloggingheads: Aimless War?
Weekend Competition: Thingummyjig
November 20, 2009,
Schottcast: Oulipo
November 20, 2009,
Psalm 109:8 'Let His Days Be Few'
November 19, 2009
From the Archive
Op-Classic, 2002: The Sniper Next Door
In the wake of sniper shootings around Washington, the novelist Patricia Cornwell wrote, fear is normal, but action is necessary.
Freakonomics
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Authors Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner and guest contributors blog about the hidden side of the economy.
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