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Hold the Halo
A sorrowful mystery: the ascension of Pope John Paul II. 
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Gregory Nemec
Op-Ed Contributor
Poor Jane’s Almanac
By JILL LEPORE
Benjamin Franklin’s sister and the path to poverty.
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
What About American Girls Sold on the Streets?
Teenage prostitution is grossly misunderstood in the United States, with the victims treated like criminals.
Editorial
A Real Choice on Medicare
The Republicans suddenly embrace needed cuts, but mainly want to shift burden to beneficiaries.
The Bipartisan March to Fiscal Madness
By DAVID A. STOCKMAN
While bond markets rumble, President Obama and Representative Ryan ignore reality. Comment
- Thomas L. Friedman is off today.
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A Slogan, Not a Plan
By RAMESH PONNURU and YUVAL LEVIN
The Republicans should revive the McCain tax credit plan.
Editorial
Quick Help for the Gulf
In partial atonement, BP agrees to provide $1 billion for Gulf restoration.
Op-Ed Contributor
Fast Train to Nowhere
By RICHARD WHITE
High-speed rail subsidies could repeat a 19th-century folly.
Op-Ed Contributors
Spring Again
Poems by Kiki Petrosino, Ellen Bryant Voight, Li-Young Lee and Billy Collins on spring fever — twig to bud to blossom to pollen — to hay fever.
Op-Ed Contributor
Jesus Christ Rock Star
By DAVID W. STOWE
Christianity and pop music once went hand in hand. Then politics came along.
Opinionator | Disunion
Union Proud
By GARY W. GALLAGHER
Why did Unionism motivate millions of Americans to fight the Civil War?
Editorial | The Rural Life
What the Season Returns
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
There is something beautiful, at once frugal and profligate, in the sight of a frame full of honey just as the bees have left it.
ARTHUR S. BRISBANE
Picking On the Competition
Times reports on other news organizations are often less than flattering. Comment
Op-Classic, 2004
Chernobyl’s Dead Zone
The novelist Martin Cruz Smith on life around the old reactor.
Opinionator | Disunion
‘Out of the Briars’
By RONALD S. CODDINGTON
The story of Alexander Herritage Newton, an African-American Union Civil War volunteer from the South, via Brooklyn.
Opinionator | Video
‘Spring City’
By JEFF SCHER
A short film, made using still images from an iPhone, celebrates the curves of urban spring.
VIDEO
Historical Parallels
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The Op-Ed columnist Roger Cohen compares the Balkan conflict to present-day Libya and Syria.
Opinionator | Fixes
When Math Makes Sense (To Everyone)
By DAVID BORNSTEIN
More ideas on the best ways to teach math to elementary school students, with input from readers.
