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Max Tiefer, Copy Chief
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![A beret, a top hat, a cowboy hat, a floppy hat and a sun hat against a light green background.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ops-offthird-tiefer-hats-Susan-01-900x675.png)
Through the looking-hat: What we as a society can learn from hats
My journey from hattraction to hatdiction to hatving no more puns to put in this description.
Max Tiefer, Copy Chief and WSN’s Unofficial Rabbi
• May 4, 2022
![There are other adjectives we can use to celebrate holidays — not just “merry” Christmas. (Staff Illustration by Manasa Gudavalli)](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ops-copy-holidays-900x675.jpg)
Opinion: Christmas is a lexical glutton
All holidays are not created equal, and this inequality has been compounded by our very vocabulary. This Christmas season, let us right this wrong.
Max Tiefer and Lorraine Olaya
• December 3, 2021
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America’s press should not be the arbiter of Bolivian democracy
News outlets have created a narrative around the latest political developments in Bolivia. However, there’s good reason to be skeptical of media interpretations.
Max Tiefer, Contributing Writer
• March 30, 2021
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