Opinion Today: In Baltimore, We're All Freddie Gray

Oliver Munday
Op-Ed Contributor
In Baltimore, We're All Freddie Gray

Like most blacks here, I've faced police aggression all my life.

Baltimore police and a protester on Monday.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
Goodbye to Freddie Gray and Goodbye to Quietly Accepting Injustice

How could people destroy their own neighborhood? The real question is: How could they not?

Baltimore police on Monday.
Editorial
What Came Before Baltimore's Riots

The tension between the black community and the police that exploded in Baltimore this week could develop in other cities across the country.

Room for Debate
Police Silence in Baltimore

Does the Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights protect due process or simply impede investigations of possible wrongdoing?

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Today's Columnists
FRANK BRUNI
Love, Marriage and Music

The Supreme Court should give us an anthem of true equality.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
On Trade: Obama Right, Critics Wrong

President Obama's trade agreements can enhance our national security as much as our economic security.

Demonstrators near the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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Editorial
A Landmark Gay Marriage Case at the Supreme Court

The justices need to resolve the question the court has been dodging for decades - is there a constitutional right to same-sex marriage?

Pope Francis
Editorial
The Pope Joins the Climate Wars

Much to the dismay of some conservatives, Pope Francis is confronting human-caused global warming.

Scott Walker at a National Rifle Association event in Nashville earlier this month.
THOMAS B. EDSALL
Enter Scott Walker, Stage Right

In his nascent presidential campaign, the Wisconsin governor wants to position himself as a deeply conservative alternative to Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.

UKI GOÑI
What Greece Faces if It Defaults

When Argentina canceled its foreign debt, the result was ugly.

Op-Ed Contributor
Sabeen Mahmud, Martyr for Free Speech
By RAZA RUMI

The assassination of a leading rights advocate is the latest attempt to silence liberals in Pakistan.

Opinionator | The End
The Right Paperwork for Your End-of-Life Wishes
By JESSICA NUTIK ZITTER

Once the patient has been lifted onto the conveyor belt of life support, it can be very hard to take him off. A Polst form can help.

Opinionator | Disunion
How Lincoln Became Our Favorite President
By JOSHUA ZEITZ

The Great Orator wasn't always our most revered leader.

Cristóbal Schmal
Op-Ed Contributor
Whose Vietnam War?

While the government talks of its victory in 1975, the Vietnamese people talk of its failures today.

Op-Ed Contributor
From Saigon to America
By BICH MINH NGUYEN

They gathered us up. They filled a knapsack with clothes and food. And then we left our home for good.

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Demonstrators in Lahore, Pakistan hold pictures of Sabeen Mahmud.
Taking Note
With an Activist's Death, Pakistan's Violence Continues
By CAROL GIACOMO

The killing of the activist Sabeen Mahmud is just the latest in a recent string of attacks.

A goldfinch in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
Taking Note
Kill the Lights, Not the Birds
By ELEANOR RANDOLPH

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has promised to turn off excess lights in state buildings to help save the lives of migrating birds.

Conscience of a Liberal
The Last Austerians
By PAUL KRUGMAN

Me in the Guardian.

Ross Douthat
The Wild Ideas of Social Conservatives
By ROSS DOUTHAT

On the predictive power of disreputable arguments.

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