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Aug 29, 2025
By turning away from evidence when it doesn't suit, the administration is showing that it doesn't think it matters whether it has the better argument.
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Aug 29, 2025
Readers react to the firing of the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Also: facing U.S. history without shame; shutting ‘Alligator Alcatraz."
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Aug 29, 2025
The brutality of our immigration policy is not longer quarantined to the border. Both parties are at fault.
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Aug 29, 2025
We drag around our brokenness in the same container as our holiness.
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Aug 29, 2025
Losing loudly has been a crucial feature of successful political movements.
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Aug 29, 2025
By turning away from evidence when it doesn't suit, the administration is showing that it doesn't think it matters whether it has the better argument.
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Aug 29, 2025
Where the center of American politics may be alive and well.
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Aug 29, 2025
Urban wildfires are becoming public health emergencies.
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Aug 28, 2025
The goal of love is to enhance the life of another, not feel good about ourselves.
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Aug 28, 2025
The firing of the C.D.C. director is the latest in a series of questionable decisions.
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Aug 28, 2025
It comes down to a single word, but one that speaks volumes.
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Aug 28, 2025
Readers lament the school shooting in Minnesota. Also: The Capitol Police ignored by President Trump; a possible cancer risk for runners.
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Aug 28, 2025
The president has raised the stakes.
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Aug 28, 2025
Who is offering an instructive example to help lead the party out of a very deep hole?
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Aug 28, 2025
Trump's budget law effectively undoes much of the good that the Affordable Care Act did in reducing opioid deaths.
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Aug 28, 2025
The president has dropped an "atomic bomb" on the Department of Justice.
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Aug 28, 2025
Trump's meddling in our most important economic institutions is so extreme that at times it resembles China's state-directed capitalism.
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Aug 28, 2025
Trump's budget law effectively undoes much of the good that the Affordable Care Act did in reducing opioid deaths.
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Aug 28, 2025
Who is offering an instructive example to help lead the party out of a very deep hole?
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Aug 28, 2025
This isn't policing. It's political theater.
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Aug 28, 2025
The theme-park operator, like so many other companies, is abandoning America's middle class.
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Aug 27, 2025
The prevalence of mass shootings in America is not normal, no other country has to deal with it to this extent, but we are not powerless to act.
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Aug 27, 2025
"A Marriage at Sea" provides a kind of rebuke to the current extreme cultural narratives about heterosexual romance.
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Aug 27, 2025
Readers react to the Trump administration's deployment of U.S. military in cities. Also: A California voter's choice on gerrymandering; the impact of ICE raids.
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Aug 27, 2025
The White House is not the president's property. Neither is the Smithsonian. Nor Washington itself.
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Aug 27, 2025
The two superpowers have made different wagers. But their fates are intertwined.
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Aug 27, 2025
"A Marriage at Sea" provides a kind of rebuke to the current extreme cultural narratives about heterosexual romance.
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Aug 27, 2025
A new paradigm for the old pairing of male athlete and beautiful female star.
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Aug 27, 2025
The White House is not the president's property. Neither is Smithsonian. Or Washington itself.
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Aug 27, 2025
Trump's effort to oust Lisa Cook could have all sorts of worrisome consequences.
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Aug 27, 2025
The party is counting on a new type of leader to counteract Trump.
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Aug 27, 2025
The journalist Radley Balko explains the mechanisms Trump is using to create a personal army.
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Aug 27, 2025
New Orleans after Katrina is a cautionary tale for every place in America that will one day face its own disaster.
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Aug 27, 2025
It starts with flattery.
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Aug 26, 2025
The solution is deceptively simple.
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Aug 26, 2025
A retreat from partisan politics, wokeness and optimism.
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Aug 26, 2025
Trump's personalized control of growing swaths of the economy will harm American economic freedom and competitiveness.
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Aug 26, 2025
Readers react to an essay on how President Trump's speaking style is changing our language. Also: A warning from Canada; an argument for shutting down the N.I.H.
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Aug 26, 2025
In the space of a summer, Trump has changed or is trying to change what the National Guard generally does.
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Aug 26, 2025
If the courts allow Trump to get away with firing Lisa Cook, the Fed will be stripped of its insulation from political pressure.
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Aug 26, 2025
Trump's move to fire a Federal Reserve governor threatens the independence of the central bank. Its autonomy is not lost, but three institutions must act.
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Aug 26, 2025
Since A.I. has made the mental effort of writing and problem solving optional, universities need new ways to require the work needed for learning.
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Aug 26, 2025
It will be effective if people who work at big tech companies start quitting their jobs.
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Aug 26, 2025
The Make America Healthy Again movement offers a simple belief system: Healthy choices are self-evident in aesthetically pleasing bodies.
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Aug 26, 2025
Since A.I. has made the mental effort of writing and problem solving optional, universities need new ways to require the work needed for learning.
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Aug 26, 2025
The solution is deceptively simple.
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Aug 26, 2025
The jarring juxtapositions in Richard Misrach's photographs of New Orleans whiplash the viewer between bleak slapstick and horror.
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Aug 26, 2025
Brazil, India and other emerging countries are hedging their bets against the United States.
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Aug 25, 2025
Israel is well on its way to making itself a pariah state — to the point that Israelis will think twice about speaking Hebrew when traveling abroad.
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Aug 25, 2025
Readers suspect motives for the F.B.I. raid of John Bolton's home. Also: Why authoritarians don't like science.
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Aug 25, 2025
Readers suspect motives for the F.B.I. raid of John Bolton's home. Also: Why authoritarians don't like science.
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Aug 25, 2025
Take it from an eyewitness: Our colleges don't deserve this.
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Aug 25, 2025
On the ground in Kharkiv, the choices are starkly different.
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Aug 25, 2025
The crowning achievement of the civil rights era is unlikely to see its 61st birthday.
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Aug 25, 2025
The V.A. expanded women's health benefits in 2022. The Trump administration wants to reverse that.
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Aug 25, 2025
We are deploying digital pseudo-therapists at an unprecedented scale, and those most at risk of negative outcomes are teens.
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Aug 25, 2025
Few are happy with how Congress is performing these days, including its members, with increasingly unpleasant jobs. It's time to recruit better talent.
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Aug 25, 2025
We need a bipartisan solution that ensures a stable farm work force and protects farmworker families and the future of American agriculture.
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Aug 24, 2025
The president and his allies should not be trusted to ensure the integrity of the vote.
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Aug 24, 2025
The president and his allies should not be trusted to ensure the integrity of the vote.
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Aug 24, 2025
Readers respond to a guest essay on the decline of a premium air travel perk. Also: When church and politics meet.
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Aug 24, 2025
What if we come to love and depend on the A.I.s — if we prefer them in many cases to our fellow humans?
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Aug 24, 2025
When Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are looking at maps of Ukraine and deciding which parts Russia should have, it's time to make waffles.
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Aug 24, 2025
Longing for the past can be good news for the future.
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Aug 24, 2025
They hoped to make tomorrow's medicines. Then came Trump.
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Aug 24, 2025
In a decent society, life-or-death decisions are never easy.
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Aug 24, 2025
They hoped to make tomorrow's medicines. Then came Trump.
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Aug 24, 2025
The incessant alerts are annoying, but also feel like community.
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Aug 23, 2025
Tennis can teach us lessons about how America can be first while also staying open to the world.
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Aug 23, 2025
Just how can we tell which of Trump's moves matters?
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Aug 23, 2025
We cannot let this dark moment consume us.
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Aug 23, 2025
If the F.B.I. is seen as a tool of retribution, it will come at the expense of its effectiveness in the long run.
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Aug 23, 2025
The president could learn a lesson from the sisters of Nativity.
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Aug 23, 2025
We've inherited dazzling public lands because of the vision of long-ago leaders. It's our job to preserve their beauty.
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Aug 23, 2025
Just how can we tell which of Trump's moves matters?
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Aug 23, 2025
Tennis can teach us lessons about how America can be first while also staying open to the world.
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Aug 23, 2025
If the president plans to replace Social Security, the American people deserve to know.
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Aug 23, 2025
Spy fiction thrives on vermismilitude — shy are so many writers so incompetent when it comes to naming foriegn characters?
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Aug 23, 2025
Readers react to a column by David Brooks analyzing the gloominess trend in the United States.
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Aug 22, 2025
The recent F.B.I. search of John Bolton's home makes clear that President Trump is perverting the justice system to intimidate his critics.
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Aug 22, 2025
The recent F.B.I. search of John Bolton's home makes clear that President Trump is perverting the justice system to intimidate his critics.
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Aug 22, 2025
It isn't just members of the MAGA faithful who are feeling let down.
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Aug 22, 2025
Readers discuss a column by Nicholas Kristof on the ‘pointless destructiveness' of Israel's war on Hamas. Also: Trump's mail-in ballot block.
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Aug 22, 2025
Rachael Bedard and David Wallace-Wells on Covid disillusionment and the rise of the MAHA movement.
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Aug 22, 2025
Community violence intervention programs are reducing crime. Trump's funding cuts and National Guard deployments will probably increase it.
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Aug 22, 2025
Gerrymandering is a form of cheating. And it is preventable.
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Aug 22, 2025
Surprise someone. Make them laugh and cry.
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Aug 21, 2025
The killing of Anas al-Sharif marks an ominous new phase of the war in Gaza.
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Aug 21, 2025
Rather than conserve or build, some people just want to destroy.
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Aug 21, 2025
Readers respond to a column by Maureen Dowd on crime in Washington and the federal takeover of the city's police department. Also: President Trump's intemperance.
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Aug 21, 2025
Artificial intelligence may change the world but probably won't remake it.
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Aug 21, 2025
The killing of Anas al-Sharif marks an ominous new phase of the war in Gaza.
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Aug 21, 2025
An amendment that can help save our democracy.
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Aug 21, 2025
What do data integrity, tariffs, inflation and debt add up to?
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Aug 21, 2025
Williamstown Theater Festival gets a reboot.
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Aug 21, 2025
The uncertainty around the future of Medicaid is paralyzing for families like mine.
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Aug 21, 2025
Let's go back to the good old days when students had only flip phones and were learning more.
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Aug 21, 2025
The killing of Anas al-Sharif marks an ominous new phase of the war in Gaza.
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Aug 21, 2025
A U.S. strike on cartels in Mexico won't fix the deep problems that allow organized crime to flourish.
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Aug 20, 2025
In Oklahoma City we're not put off by rhetoric about reverse discrimination that attacks equal opportunity and celebrations of our residents' unique identities.
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