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The Justice Department is finally beginning to enforce the federal law requiring states to provide voter registration at welfare and food stamp offices.
Editorials
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There is time for lawmakers to reform and strengthen Medicare and Social Security for the long haul.
Faint Progress on Drug Payoffs
Legislation that would end a devious tactic used by some pharmaceutical companies to delay the introduction of cheaper generic drugs deserves passage.
A Destructive Epidemic
A fungus is killing off bats with astonishing speed, and possibly changing an entire ecosystem.
Editorial Series
Letters
Christopher Brand
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Multimedia
Bloggingheads: Progressive Faith
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, left, of Christianity Today and Frances Kissling of RH Reality Check debate the impact of the religious left.
Op-Art
Still Life With Flotsam
An artist depicts objects that have washed ashore on the North Fork of Long Island.
Columnists
BOB HERBERT
The Horror Show
Policy makers seem intent on allowing the employment crisis to fester. As bad as the July employment numbers were, a deeper look into them shows a seriously scary situation.
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Op-Ed Contributors
Wesley Allsbrook
Slumdog Tourism
By KENNEDY ODEDE
Slum tourists may think they’re doing good, but the activity hurts more than it helps.
Texting With Terrorists
By RICHARD A. FALKENRATH
The United Arab Emirates’ ban on BlackBerries is a prudent security measure.
Opinionator
Living Rooms
Rebirth of a City
By ROBERTA BRANDES GRATZ
Gentrification used to be about neighborhoods. In Syracuse, it’s about the entire city.
Plagiarism Is Not a Big Moral Deal
By STANLEY FISH
Appropriating the words of others is not a moral or philosophical transgression. It’s a professional one.
The Stone
The Rigor of Love
By SIMON CRITCHLEY
Can the experience of faith be shared by those unable to believe in God?
The Thread
Obama's Endangered Economists
By TOBIN HARSHAW
First Peter Orszag, now Christina Romer — the White House’s economic gurus are heading to the exits. Is Lawrence Summers pushing them out the door?
Home for Life
By ALLISON ARIEFF
Let’s hope the age of designing houses for their resale value is over.
Still Paying for Lehman's Demise
By WILLIAM D. COHAN
Why are executives bleeding their former firm's estate to cover their own legal fees?
In Fire Country
By TIMOTHY EGAN
In the West, wildfires shroud the landscape in smoke and flame, and memories of the Big Burn of 1910 still smolder.
The Conversation
All-American Roulette
By GAIL COLLINS and ROSS DOUTHAT
Left and right unite: failing casinos should not receive government bailouts.
Today’s Highlights
Stanley Fish
Plagiarism Is Not a Big Moral Deal
Appropriating the words of others is not a moral or philosophical transgression. It’s a professional one.
Bloggingheads
Progressive Faith
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway and Frances Kissling debate the impact of the religious left.
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From the Archive
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James Reston imagines Leonid Brezhnev’s state of the union speech to the former Soviet Socialist Republic.
Freakonomics
Freakonomics on NYTimes.com
Authors Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner and guest contributors blog about the hidden side of the economy.
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