Jonathan Zimmerman

Snow, cars and politics are a slippery mix for city mayors

Snowstorms have become devastating to American cities — thanks to a commonplace technology: the private automobile. ...

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Why we still love the Beatles

Almost 21 years ago, my wife gave birth to our first child. I had been awake for about 24 hours, ...

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Is it possible to legalize marijuana, without promoting its use?

Like alcohol prohibition before it, marijuana prohibition has been a failure. But will hawking the product compound the proble ...

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Title IX, women’s sports and the myth of the level playing field

In 1975, Nebraska Sen. Roman Hruska warned a Congressional hearing that American college football was in mortal danger. The th ...

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Mandela’s South Africa makes case for potency of economic sanctions

In 1993, on the eve of black majority rule in South Africa, Time magazine asked Nelson Mandela if economic sanctions ...

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The first ‘war on Christmas’

There’s a nip in the air, and you can see your breath. The trees are bare. Couples bundle against the cold, walking han ...

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Riley Cooper and the N-word

Note: The following article uses racial epithets that some reader’s may find offensive. Over ...

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Why the JFK conspiracy theory still haunts us

A few years ago, I found myself on an airplane sitting next to an elderly gentleman. Talk turned to a recent election, and he ...

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Halloween and the new naughty

In 1975, anthropologist Margaret Mead published a plaintive article about Halloween. It was once a night of youth rebellion, M ...

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Republicans for gay rights

In a notorious 2003 interview, GOP Sen. Rick Santorum likened gay sex to bestiality. And just last week, GOP Gov. Tom Corbett compared ga ...

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The college drinking game

A few years ago, during a discussion in my office, one of my undergraduate students volunteered that she did not drink alcohol. “Be ...

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A meaningful intersection with politics could make Miss America more than a beauty contest

So here’s a question for Miss America’s organizers: Why do the contestants receive only 30 seconds to answer your questions? ...

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