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New York Magazine

The Opinion That Ate the Paper

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In the summer of 2020, as James Bennet, the head of the New York Times’ ...
The Cornell Daily Sun

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Every writer knows the moment. It’s often late at night, when words blur together on your screen and you wonder why you thought you could pin down such a slippery thought. You read a sentence aloud, ...
The New York Times

‘African American’ Is Awkward. It’s Time to Use ‘Black.’

The linguist John McWhorter on how language around racial identity is evolving. By David Leonhardt and John McWhorter Produced by Jillian Weinberger In this episode of “The Opinions,” the linguist and ...