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Jan 08, 2026
Trump's former Venezuela envoy Elliott Abrams argues that America's sudden presence there is not about spreading democracy.
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Jan 08, 2026
"This is not the Middle East": The former Venezuela envoy Elliott Abrams tells the Opinion columnist Ross Douthat to "stop making Iraq analogies."
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Jan 08, 2026
Trump will soon discover that the only way to revive major American oil investments in Venezuela is to revive Venezuela's democracy.
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Jan 08, 2026
We spend billions of dollars on punishing child sexual abusers and far less on prevention. It's not stopping the problem. We must rethink our approach.
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Jan 08, 2026
In the Trump era, there are a lot of contenders for the 51st state.
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Jan 08, 2026
Newly released dietary guidelines emphasize protein and full-fat dairy.
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Jan 08, 2026
Trump will soon discover that the only way to revive major American oil investments in Venezuela is to revive Venezuela's democracy.
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Jan 08, 2026
Tressie McMillan Cottom, Jessica Grose and Meher Ahmad on why plastic surgery and fillers no longer feel like a secret — or a stigma.
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Jan 08, 2026
Our future resilience depends on more than how much we spend on disaster response. It depends on when we spend it.
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Jan 08, 2026
We spend billions of dollars on punishing child sexual abusers and far less on prevention. It's not stopping the problem. We must rethink our approach.
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Jan 08, 2026
The opposition leader's uncompromising style explains her political rise. But will that brand of politics work as well when it comes to running a country?
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Jan 07, 2026
The sacrament of penance's 21st-century allure.
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Jan 07, 2026
Facing death is a core part of making meaning of one's life. To struggle through this universal contemplation without a community can be brutal.
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Jan 07, 2026
Will anyone be in charge?
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Jan 07, 2026
Whether or not the Venezuelan raid was advisable, it was Trumpian.
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Jan 07, 2026
Readers discuss comments by Stephen Miller about U.S. power and by the Danish prime minister about NATO. Also: Deaths on subway tracks.
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Jan 07, 2026
A Republican House member argues that the Maduro raid was good — but the operation's success still hangs in the balance.
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Jan 07, 2026
The former envoy Elliott Abrams says the administration should push harder for regime change.
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Jan 07, 2026
The former envoy Elliott Abrams says the administration should push harder.
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Jan 07, 2026
The specter of welfare fraud haunted Democrats under Reagan. It could do so again.
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Jan 07, 2026
Facing death is a core part of making meaning of one's life. To struggle through this universal contemplation without a community can be brutal.
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Jan 07, 2026
The world must not stop supporting dissidents in Belarus despite the release of some from prison.
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Jan 06, 2026
Trump's increasing belligerence abroad should raise alarm about more than the fate of Venezuela.
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Jan 06, 2026
"The United States has a problem with elite impunity," says the Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie, as he looks back on the five years since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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Jan 06, 2026
But taking Venezuela's oil while leaving the regime in place weren't among them.
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Jan 06, 2026
There is no simple procedural mechanism for lawyers, or the public, to challenge the fitness of judges.
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Jan 06, 2026
Readers respond to an essay by Representative Jamie Raskin and to an editorial. Also: Risky changes in vaccine policy; a new Kennedy Center.
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Jan 06, 2026
The president is deploying his domineering tactics in unexpected places.
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Jan 06, 2026
As states disregard limits on the lawful use of force, this may be just the beginning of a slide into frequent war.
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Jan 06, 2026
Trump's increasing belligerence abroad should raise alarm about more than the fate of Venezuela.
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Jan 06, 2026
As states disregard limits on the lawful use of force, this may be just the beginning of a slide into frequent war.
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Jan 06, 2026
Jan. 6 is a symptom. Elite impunity is the cause.
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Jan 06, 2026
The president is deploying his domineering tactics in unexpected places.
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Jan 06, 2026
The journalist Jonathan Blitzer explains the various interests and factions at play in the Trump administration's strike against Venezuela.
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Jan 06, 2026
Five years after Jan. 6, 2021, we are still caught up in a struggle over the meaning of that day.
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Jan 05, 2026
We turn to art to make sense of a life that is heartbreakingly fragile.
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Jan 05, 2026
President Trump made a bold decision, and it was a stunning success.
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Jan 05, 2026
David French and M. Gessen on why the ends do not justify the means in Venezuela.
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Jan 05, 2026
To understand what's unfolding in Venezuela, you have to look to the mob, not traditional foreign policy doctrines.
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Jan 05, 2026
To understand what's unfolding in Venezuela, you have to look to the mob, not traditional foreign policy doctrines.
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Jan 05, 2026
The high cost of forgetting what world war is really like.
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Jan 05, 2026
Producers seem uninterested and consumers might not notice
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Jan 05, 2026
Readers worry about the repercussions and a resurfacing of "America's imperialist past."
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Jan 05, 2026
The high cost of forgetting what world war is really like.
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Jan 05, 2026
Abandoning restraint, the president is growing reckless.
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Jan 05, 2026
We turn to art to make sense of a life that is heartbreakingly fragile.
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Jan 05, 2026
One year later, we haven't really begun to reckon with the real meaning of the Los Angeles fires.
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Jan 05, 2026
Americans want affordability. Here's how politicians can deliver.
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Jan 05, 2026
Naïve faith and wholesale pessimism are not your only options.
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Jan 05, 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 04, 2026
Allies? Who needs allies?
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Jan 04, 2026
Many are celebrating the ouster of a brutal dictator, but the Maduro regime may survive the loss of Maduro.
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Jan 04, 2026
Readers weigh in on the military raid, the seizing of President Nicolás Maduro and what comes next.
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Jan 04, 2026
Trump's true intentions finally come clear after talk of fighting drugs and instability.
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Jan 04, 2026
We are all in a constant state of grief, even though we don't always admit it.
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Jan 04, 2026
That's not a criticism of Brady. It's a criticism of how greatness is considered.
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Jan 04, 2026
On a vacation abroad, my family started dancing in public. We haven't stopped.
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Jan 04, 2026
We have long faced a brutal paradox: an absent yet omnipotent state.
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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
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
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
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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