The Week in Ideas: What strange things does 2022 have in store for us? Take this quiz and find out.
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| | | |  |  | | Opinions you may have missed. | | | | | | | Post columnist David Ignatius has long made a specialty of squeezing information from the darker corners of Washington — and from sources overseas. Recently, David has been greeting each Jan. 1 with an artful blueprint for the coming year that masquerades as a quiz. I urge you to read it and test your luck. The franchise was pioneered years ago by William Safire of the New York Times, and David's version is not for the fainthearted; I can guarantee you his interactive rendering of 2022 includes a few outcomes that you will not have imagined. That's partly because tucked into the multiple-choice questions is a great deal of reporting about people and places that David has been covering for a generation. David helpfully provides his own best guesses before the column concludes. But he notes, as Safire once said, that if you get all the answers right, "You belong in jail." Good luck on the quiz — and thanks for reading.  (Photo by Bandar Al-Jaloud/Saudi Royal Palace/AFP via Getty Images) Predicting the future is hard, whether it's about North Korea, space warfare or presidential politics. By David Ignatius ● Read more » |    | | | Northam talked about "the yearbook incident" with the refreshing humility of someone who has been through and learned from a searing experience. By Jonathan Capehart ● Read more » | | | This is not a normal legal argument. It's certainly not a conservative one. By Ruth Marcus ● Read more » | | | Amid the pain and loss of the pandemic, there are also joys — small, everyday pleasures that make me weep. By Catherine Rampell ● Read more » | | | Russia can try to liquidate Memorial, but it can't eliminate the memory of Stalin's crimes, nor those of Mr. Putin today. By the Editorial Board ● Read more » | | | He is being eulogized for his coaching and TV careers — not to mention the video game — but here in Monterey, we knew him mainly as a good guy. And a great eater. By Peter Funt ● Read more » | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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