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Theunis Bates

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News Editor at LinkedIn. Does words for a living.
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Editor's letter Jan. 2022

Editor's letter Jan. 2022

The Week — “I have no way to defend my borders but to extend them.” That was the supposed justification given by Russian Empress Catherine the Great, who considered herself an enlightened reformist, for her unenlightened annexation spree in the 18th century.
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Editor's letter Dec. 2021

Editor's letter Dec. 2021

In the spring of 1940, my grandfather was patching up wounded British troops on the beaches of Dunkirk when a German shell exploded nearby. Shrapnel ripped apart Philip’s left leg below the knee and he was carried, unconscious and bleeding profusely, by his fellow soldiers to an evacuation ship.
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Editor's letter Nov. 2021

Editor's letter Nov. 2021

For the first time in nearly two years, my kids got to hug their grandpa this week. My wife and I are British expats, and so for the entirety of the pandemic Covid restrictions have blocked our U.K.-based family from entering the U.S. ...
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Editor's letter Oct. 2021

Editor's letter Oct. 2021

Moving into a new house is always an education. In the past few months, I’ve learned more than I ever expected, or wanted to, about French drains (they’re good), 4-inch gutters (they’re not), and wood-burning stove regulations (they’re a nightmare) ...
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Editor's letter Sept. 2021

Editor's letter Sept. 2021

The stories of sacrifice from 9/11 are almost endless. There were the passengers and crew on board Flight 93 ...
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Editor's letter Aug. 2021

Editor's letter Aug. 2021

When Sunisa Lee won gold in the all-around gymnastics final at the Tokyo Olympics last week, her family and supporters back home in St. Paul, Minn., erupted in a burst of hugs and cheers ...
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Editor's letter July 2021

Editor's letter July 2021

If our fight against Covid-19 were a horror movie, then we’d probably be in that clichéd second-to-last scene right now. You know the one: The villain has been thrown off a building, blown up, or crushed by a truck ...
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Editor's letter June 2021

Editor's letter June 2021

To be a house hunter in 2021 is to live in a near-constant state of disappointment ...
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Editor's letter May 20201

Editor's letter May 20201

The stuff of science fiction is once again becoming the stuff of reality. In a breakthrough study, researchers in the U.S. and China have created for the first time embryos that contain both human and monkey cells ...
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Editor's letter April 2021

Editor's letter April 2021

There’s a specific feeling I get whenever I fly into New York’s JFK airport and start to make the drive home. It feels exactly like turbulence ...
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Editor's letter March 2021

Editor's letter March 2021

It pains me to write this, but I’ve become obsessed with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s showdown with the royal family. I was born and raised in Britain and have spent my life being passionately uninterested in all things Windsor ...
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Editor's letter Feb. 2021

Editor's letter Feb. 2021

Ancient Crete. Seventeenth-century Bohemia. Revolutionary Cuba. The planet Gethen. Those are just some of the places that books have allowed me to visit over the past year, even as the pandemic has largely kept me locked down at home ...
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Editor's letter Jan. 2021

Editor's letter Jan. 2021

“This is not who we are.” That was the cry that went out from politicians of all stripes after last week’s deadly pro-Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol ...
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Editor's letter Dec. 2020

Editor's letter Dec. 2020

I have never seen two children so happy to go to school. When in-person teaching resumed in New York City in early October, my 5- and 7-year-old skipped, ran, and bounced the four blocks to their elementary school ...
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Editor's letter Oct. 30 2020

Editor's letter Oct. 30 2020

Call it a tale of two systems. In authoritarian China, where the pandemic first emerged, the coronavirus is now a mere inconvenience ...
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Editor's letter Oct, 2020

Editor's letter Oct, 2020

“Of course, it’s 2020.” That was the first thought that entered my mind last week when a news alert lit up my phone announcing that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died...
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Editor's letter Aug, 2020

Editor's letter Aug, 2020

Last weekend, I decided it was time to upgrade my wheels. For the past few years I’ve been driving a 1998 Honda Accord, a wonderfully reliable machine that my family has named Betty (because she’s white) ...
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Editor's letter July 2020

Editor's letter July 2020

Like so many other parents across America, I’m dreading the arrival of the new school year. What should have been a moment of celebration for my family ...
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Editor's letter June 2020

Editor's letter June 2020

The Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws are in revolt. J.K. Rowling sparked outrage among many Harry Potter fans last week when she waded into the cultural clash ...
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Editor's letter May 29 2020

Editor's letter May 29 2020

Like many other people, I’m starting to have second thoughts about my urban love affair...
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Editor's letter May 2020

Editor's letter May 2020

In the years leading up to A.D. 542, the Eastern Roman Empire— known by many today as the Byzantine Empire—was on a winning streak. Emperor Justinian had crushed the barbarians...
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Editor's letter April 2020

Editor's letter April 2020

I live in a two-bedroom Brooklyn apartment that many realtors would generously describe as “oversize.” But after nearly two weeks of pandemic lockdown...
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Editor's letter March 2020

Editor's letter March 2020

Afghanistan in 2020 is starting to look a lot like Vietnam in 1973. That year, with no input from South Vietnam’s pro-U.S. government, President Richard Nixon signed a deal with North Vietnam to speed America’s exit from a deeply unpopular “forever war.”
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Editor's letter Feb. 2020

Editor's letter Feb. 2020

Voters across the West have sent the same message again and again in recent years: We want the outside world to go away...
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