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Attacking the fentanyl crisis

by Dan Rodricks I once gave a drug dealer some career advice: Sell cars, not cocaine. The guy seemed open to that idea. He had come to me in the summer of 2005, after reading one of several columns in which we offered advice for “getting out of the game.” He was about 30 ...

I was a teenage librarian. Don’t arrest me

Some time ago, I worked after school and during summers at my town’s public library. My supervisor was Mrs. Fowkes, a stunning grandmother who, in summer, wore straw hats with flowers. There I mastered the trick of repairing loose bindings with glue and folded wax paper. Then I was ...