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Jan 03, 2026
Retiring from opera has its own set of challenges, but there is plenty I share with the other millions of Americans ending careers.
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Jan 03, 2026
"This is a plainly illegal war, a plainly illegal action, one that violates international law, one that is plainly unconstitutional, even anti-constitutional," says the Times columnist Jamelle Bouie about the U.S. attack on Venezuela.
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Jan 03, 2026
His administration just decapitated the country's leadership; he's now responsible for what comes next there.
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Jan 03, 2026
"If you're feeling contradictory about all of this, you're not alone," says Times columnist Nicholas Kristof about the U.S.'s attack on Venezuela. President Nicolás Maduro "was a disaster for Venezuela and for the entire region," says Kristof. But at the same time, "its much easier to topple a dictator than to institute a democratic populist government in its place."
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Jan 03, 2026
Alzheimer's stole my mother's words. She spoke poetry instead.
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Jan 03, 2026
People's ability to make new friends reflects the strength of the "friendship market" they are in.
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Jan 03, 2026
We know that Mr. Trump's warmongering violates the law.
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Jan 03, 2026
With Trump's health care cuts, I traveled to Ohio, Mississippi and Alabama — and encountered devastated families bracing for even more difficult challenges.
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Jan 03, 2026
We need stories that capture how we live — in the touch, the embrace, the everyday if boring intimacies that were never meant to be translated.
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Jan 03, 2026
I often wonder if I tried hard enough to understand my mother as she lost her memory.
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Jan 03, 2026
People's ability to make new friends reflects the strength of the "friendship market" they are in.
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Jan 03, 2026
Retiring from opera has its own set of challenges, but there is plenty I share with the other millions of Americans ending careers.
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Jan 02, 2026
Readers share their hopes and anxieties as New York's new mayor takes office. Also: Unsubscribing from the Kennedy Center; protesting Trump.
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Jan 02, 2026
Readings that the podcast's guests say shaped their thinking.
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Jan 02, 2026
Tell us how you're managing increases to your health care insurance costs.
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Jan 02, 2026
If anyone should be prepared to know how to handle my dad's ashes, it's me.
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Jan 02, 2026
The mayor's résumé looks like the broad coalition he built when he swept to victory in November.
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Jan 02, 2026
America is becoming more loveless: less dating, less marriage, less friendship, less patriotism. But love outside of self is what makes life meaningful.
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Jan 02, 2026
Drawing on a Buddhist meditation, the writer Stephen Batchelor asks: What is this?
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Jan 02, 2026
The unseen workers who help train A.I.
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Jan 02, 2026
The unseen workers who help train self-driving cars to see.
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Jan 02, 2026
The unseen workers who help train self-driving cars to see.
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Jan 01, 2026
Ukraine's president should stop pressing for U.S. security guarantees and pursue more effective means of self-protection.
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Jan 01, 2026
Readers challenge a Republican politician's views on prejudice and intolerance in the conservative movement. Also: The harm caused by organ transplant tourism.
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Jan 01, 2026
How did we get here? I don't want to know.
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Jan 01, 2026
The new year will pose numerous problems that won't be so easily overcome.
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Jan 01, 2026
Hope is a virtue to be practiced, not an aspiration to be managed.
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Jan 01, 2026
Testosterone neither ensures dominance nor acts as a straightforward trigger for aggression.
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Jan 01, 2026
Ukraine's president should stop pressing for U.S. security guarantees and pursue more effective means of self-protection.
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Jan 01, 2026
The new mayor is an entirely familiar type of New York politician.
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Dec 31, 2025
Readers reflect on her life and the tragedies that have befallen the Kennedy family. Also: Protecting Planned Parenthood.
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Dec 31, 2025
The next three years will require a vigilant defense of free speech and open debate.
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Dec 31, 2025
The next three years will require a vigilant defense of free speech and open debate.
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Dec 31, 2025
If Netflix acquires HBO, it will have won the streaming wars. But that's not what will determine if TV shows get better, or worse.
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Dec 31, 2025
Tragically, America is still living in a political era that began on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Dec 31, 2025
A second Gilded Age, a single solution.
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Dec 31, 2025
How much more chaotic could a second Trump term be? 2025 did not disappoint.
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Dec 31, 2025
A tale of two cities, told through its pubs.
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Dec 30, 2025
The president feels no guilt and has no qualms.
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Dec 30, 2025
Readers find a classroom trend of assigning shorter texts "troubling." Also: Reaction to President Trump's naming of a special envoy to Greenland.
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Dec 30, 2025
He failed not only himself but also other Black politicians.
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Dec 30, 2025
How, and why, does the president get away with it?
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Dec 30, 2025
America could all but lose vaccine access. Here's how.
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Dec 30, 2025
It's Sweden's longest criminal trial. I was there because of a different historic distinction.
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Dec 30, 2025
Our year-end food web describing who and what devoured who and what.
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Dec 29, 2025
The technology Is ruining much of what makes life worth living.
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Dec 29, 2025
In Brigitte Bardot's death I see the passing of a generation: the Frenchwomen who tried to find a path to autonomy in the 1950s and '60s.
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Dec 29, 2025
Readers react to Mitt Romney's call to raise taxes on the wealthy. Also: the moral bankruptcy revealed by the Epstein files.
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Dec 29, 2025
So much in public health has changed.
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Dec 29, 2025
How a piece of kitchen equipment watched me grow up.
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Dec 29, 2025
Savor the words that made sense of our world.
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Dec 29, 2025
Amid an astonishing wave of anti-Indian animus, Indian Americans are questioning their place in the country.
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Dec 29, 2025
Wasn't this supposed to be the golden era of free expression on college campuses?
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Dec 29, 2025
People don't like to think about their own mortality, but therapists owe it to their patients to make plans.
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Dec 29, 2025
We should know better.
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Dec 28, 2025
A Q & A with N.T. Wright about why Jesus entered into human history.
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Dec 28, 2025
Readers fault Democrats for stalling a report on their 2024 failures. Also: A lawyer's faith in freedom; a rabbi responds to JD Vance's claim of a Christian nation.
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Dec 28, 2025
So much in public health has changed.
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Dec 28, 2025
Rather than try to resist temptation in the moment, many successful people arrange their lives to minimize the need for willpower in the first place.
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Dec 28, 2025
Consider that every book you have is a story of who you are.
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Dec 28, 2025
I was now facing the same reality my working-class neighbors knew well: the world had changed, my work had all but disappeared, and still, the bills wouldn't stop coming.
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Dec 28, 2025
As the year drew to a close, we reached out to Opinion columnists and contributors for personal lists.
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Dec 27, 2025
As the year drew to a close, we reached out to Opinion columnists and contributors for personal lists.
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Dec 27, 2025
A guest essay offered several possible explanations. Young and older readers offer their own.
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Dec 27, 2025
A Korean film resonates in a moment when America has its highest unemployment rate since 2021.
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Dec 27, 2025
OK, 2025 wasn't the best year ever. But we're arguably still in the best decade in the history of humanity.
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Dec 27, 2025
But when I see Demi Moore, 63, looking far younger than me at 48, I wonder if I should be figuring out a way to keep up.
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Dec 27, 2025
Companies benefiting from A.I. should donate a small percentage of their profits to retrain the workers the tech will displace.
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Dec 27, 2025
Policymakers and investors are pursuing what's feasible rather than promising the impossible.
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Dec 27, 2025
A guest essay offered several possible explanations. Young and older readers offer their own.
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Dec 27, 2025
Every year, I choose a university student to accompany me on a reporting trip.
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Dec 26, 2025
Anyone who wants to live in a safe, fair and free country should be alarmed.
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Dec 26, 2025
Readers respond to a guest essay arguing that it is an unfair "racket. Also: An attack on climate research and safety; the value of immigrants to America.
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Dec 26, 2025
A mother's grief is well depicted in "Hamnet" and "The Correspondent."
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Dec 26, 2025
A mother's grief is well depicted in "Hamnet" and "The Correspondent."
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Dec 26, 2025
Here are the best nonfiction essays of the year, according to me.
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Dec 26, 2025
The size of the national debt matters. But so does who America's lenders are — and that is changing.
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Dec 26, 2025
Anyone who wants to live in a safe, fair and free country should be alarmed.
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Dec 26, 2025
It's become easier to imagine the moment when Trump's mystique finally evaporates.
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Dec 26, 2025
For the past decade, every administration in Washington has said Venezuela represents an extraordinary threat to the United States.
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Dec 25, 2025
Readers reflect on a column by David French on religious belief. Also, A Trump order bullies states on A.I.
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Dec 25, 2025
"We had a natural affinity for each other," Martin Scorsese writes of Rob Reiner.
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Dec 25, 2025
One reason Jesus was born human.
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Dec 25, 2025
Hollywood is Hollywood because of its gift for mythmaking.
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Dec 25, 2025
Julia Angwin turns her iPhone screen to gray and learns a lot about her relationship with her phone.
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Dec 25, 2025
Populist rhetoric is numbing us to the plight of others.
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Dec 25, 2025
A long-neglected one-act from a theatrical master offers the key to enjoying your family gatherings.
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Dec 24, 2025
The fight was supposed to be about releasing them. But the way it's being done seems designed to obscure the truth.
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Dec 24, 2025
A militia accused of genocide has seized a city of a quarter-million people, and it now appears from satellites to be a ghost town.
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Dec 24, 2025
Trump has begun to recede from the movement he created.
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Dec 24, 2025
They complicate the narrative about political violence as well as our hopes for safety and justice.
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Dec 24, 2025
Readers offer personal stories in response to a guest essay critical of home-schooling.
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Dec 24, 2025
A fitting poem for a transformative year.
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Dec 24, 2025
Voters keep resolving to change our country and yet we are increasingly disappointed in those we elect.
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Dec 24, 2025
The 2025 revolt against process signaled the final collapse of a powerful idea that once promised to hold the country together.
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Dec 24, 2025
Standing together on behalf of those who flee oppression is a very Christmas thing to do.
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Dec 24, 2025
After winning an Emmy, Stephen Colbert spoke about creating a "show about love." In its homestretch, "The Late Show" is fulfilling that promise.
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Dec 24, 2025
Few things can calm a savage heart like being genuinely listened to.
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Dec 24, 2025
Three lessons from a London commune.
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Dec 23, 2025
Far-right mobilization is not an inevitable consequence of the precariousness of our times.
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