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Oct 22, 2025
Massive cuts to health, education and immigration are disproportionately taking a toll.
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Oct 22, 2025
Why Mikie Sherrill's chances in New Jersey are much better than you might be hearing.
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Oct 22, 2025
Share your story and we'll get you some advice for how to ease the tension.
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Oct 22, 2025
Who's the patriot now?
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Oct 22, 2025
Term limits would help bring our divided nation together.
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Oct 22, 2025
Small colleges secure the fraying social fabric that holds towns together.
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Oct 22, 2025
Without a plan for what comes next, the United States is not only hastening its own decline but also forcing the world into a new era of disorder.
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Oct 22, 2025
Without a plan for what comes next, the United States is not only hastening its own decline but also forcing the world into a new era of disorder.
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Oct 21, 2025
Coarseness and conservative impulses in "The Life of a Showgirl."
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Oct 21, 2025
A candidate who stands out for his monomania, double standards and affinity for extremists.
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Oct 21, 2025
Races in New Jersey and Virginia are testing the power of the moderate lane.
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Oct 21, 2025
The political scientist Suzanne Mettler examines the roots of America's urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back rural voters.
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Oct 21, 2025
The United States isn't exceptional because of our common culture; it's exceptional because Americans have been able to cohere despite cultures that set us apart.
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Oct 21, 2025
Readers respond to a guest essay by Danielle Sassoon about her experience at N.Y.U. Also: A crackdown on science; a plea to the former presidents.
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Oct 21, 2025
Races in New Jersey and Virginia are testing the power of the moderate lane.
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Oct 21, 2025
False humor is simply a technique to neutralize the unpalatable.
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Oct 21, 2025
The political scientist Suzanne Mettler examines the roots of America's urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back rural voters.
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Oct 21, 2025
Tariffs don't seem to be working as planned.
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Oct 21, 2025
The United States isn't exceptional because of our common culture; it's exceptional because Americans have been able to cohere despite cultures that set us apart.
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Oct 20, 2025
A perverse delight in degradation has always coursed through MAGA circles.
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Oct 20, 2025
A perverse delight in degradation has always coursed through MAGA circles.
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Oct 20, 2025
More than any other presidential actions, clemencies tell us who presidents are.
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Oct 20, 2025
While what is happening to us is as serious as a guillotine, we must harness our best humorous selves in order to keep it from falling.
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Oct 20, 2025
Participants reflect on the "No Kings" demonstrations across the country.
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Oct 20, 2025
Since the first election of President Trump, Hollywood has fretted about portraying rural and red state Americans. Some new TV series show how to get it right.
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Oct 20, 2025
Lessons from a Democrat who won in a Republican state.
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Oct 20, 2025
While what is happening to us is as serious as a guillotine, we must harness our best humorous selves in order to keep it from falling.
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Oct 20, 2025
Telling stories is how we make sense of life and what it means to be human.
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Oct 20, 2025
Spanish has become a sanctioned indicator of potential criminality in the United States of America.
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Oct 20, 2025
Senator Ruben Gallego says Democrats must strategize more shrewdly. President Trump's base has "already set up the field to fight in," he says. "They have all the information and we're just playing catch-up.
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Oct 20, 2025
"The troquita - the truck - it's symbolic," Senator Ruben Gallego tells David Leonhardt on "The Opinions." "It really is a status symbol that you have succeeded in this country."
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Oct 20, 2025
Lessons from a Democrat who won in a Republican state.
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Oct 20, 2025
Smartphones are becoming casinos. Trump, whose son is invested in the industry, is only goosing the business.
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Oct 20, 2025
The antidote to our polarized politics is a creative, re-energized political center.
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Oct 20, 2025
The administration's plan would defund the very intervention that has ended homelessness for people across the country.
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Oct 20, 2025
Literature is fragile. It serves no obvious purpose. But it is also as close to immortal as any cultural endeavor has ever been.
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Oct 19, 2025
Language policing. Cancel culture. Victimhood contests and cultural grievances. Despite attacking the left for partaking in such practices, there's an emerging set of individuals on the right who have became exactly what they've criticized. Meet the woke right.
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Oct 19, 2025
Trying to find purpose in an endless scroll of A.I.-generated videos.
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Oct 19, 2025
Readers discuss the political battle over health care in America.
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Oct 19, 2025
The Young Republicans' Telegram chat was revealing in so many ways.
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Oct 19, 2025
Since the first election of President Trump, Hollywood has fretted about portraying rural and red state Americans. A new spate of TV series show how to get it right.
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Oct 19, 2025
Shutting out China's best minds will only push them into a homegrown Chinese research ecosystem that is eclipsing American universities.
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Oct 19, 2025
Democrats' vision for the country won't matter unless they can get people to pay attention to it.
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Oct 19, 2025
Virginia Roberts Giuffre spent so much of her life telling the story of her abuse.
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Oct 18, 2025
The Trump administration risks squandering the progress it has made in securing the border.
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Oct 18, 2025
Three Southern Opinion columnists on the region and its outsize role in national politics.
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Oct 18, 2025
Seeing my kid wear my bat mitzvah dress gave me a new outlook on adolescence and sentimental objects.
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Oct 18, 2025
In a supposed effort to crack down on immigration, Trump continues to bombard American cities with federal agents. Chicago is the latest target, and the administration's efforts are only leading to chaos and unrest. The musician and actor Vic Mensa, a Chicago native, breaks down how we got here in the first place and what it means for the city.
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Oct 18, 2025
What explains the Republican Party's posture toward these protests?
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Oct 18, 2025
A lot happened this week. The Opinion editor of The New York Times, Kathleen Kingsbury, highlights one thing you shouldn't miss: OpenAI's chief executive, Sam Altman, announced that the company's new version of ChatGPT will have a more "humanlike" personality — and even offer erotica for verified adults. Watch Kingsbury explain why more regulation of A.I. chatbots is needed.
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Oct 18, 2025
Seeing my kid wear my bat mitzvah dress gave me a new outlook on adolescence and sentimental objects.
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Oct 18, 2025
In a supposed effort to crack down on immigration, Trump continues to bombard American cities with federal agents. Chicago is the latest target, and the administration's efforts are only leading to chaos and unrest. The musician and actor Vic Mensa, a Chicago native, breaks down how we got here in the first place and what it means for the city.
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Oct 18, 2025
Jamelle Bouie says the South's appeal isn't just cheaper living; it's the power to use wealth to control others. Tressie McMillan Cottom calls it "the ‘Yellowstone'-ification of the country." But that kind of dominance also means giving up something: the diversity and cultural egalitarianism of cosmopolitan life.
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Oct 18, 2025
Tressie McMillan Cottom argues that our obsession with Southern culture isn't just about charm or nostalgia. It's about reassurance. We romanticize its music, verandas and magnolias, yet, despite the political drift in other states, insist that "at least we're not the South."
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Oct 18, 2025
Pete Hegseth can't handle the truth.
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Oct 18, 2025
Why Congress should take up Insurrection Act reform.
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Oct 18, 2025
Readers weigh in on the challenges of defining and diagnosing the condition.
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Oct 18, 2025
The Trump administration risks squandering the progress it has made in securing the border.
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Oct 18, 2025
Three Southern Opinion columnists on the region and its outsize role in national politics.
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Oct 18, 2025
Trump's flatterers are sacrificing more than just their dignity.
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Oct 17, 2025
Could President Trump's unorthodox leadership style differentiate the latest Israel-Hamas peace deal from the many failed attempts that came before? The veteran Middle East negotiator Robert Malley thinks so. "He's a politician of intuition," he says.
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Oct 17, 2025
Is Israel still a sovereign nation, given its increased dependence on the United States? On a recent episode of "The Ezra Klein Show," veteran Middle East negotiators Hussein Agha and Robert Malley sit down with the Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein to discuss the recent peace deal and what comes next.
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Oct 17, 2025
The only way to contain Putin is with a resolute show of strength.
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Oct 17, 2025
Readers, many with Parkinson's, respond to an article about Sue Goldie, who has the disease. Also: Tears over Trump's America; losing to China; learning through play.
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Oct 17, 2025
Who lost the debate may be clearer than who won.
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Oct 17, 2025
The veteran Middle East negotiators Hussein Agha and Robert Malley assess the promises and pitfalls of Trump's peace deal.
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Oct 17, 2025
What do we expect from the Supreme Court and what can it actually do? On "Interesting Times," Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Ross Douthat discuss how the court makes decisions, with an eye toward the future, rather than focusing on the moment we live in right now.
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Oct 17, 2025
Abortion isn't a right protected by the Constitution nor is it deeply rooted in the country's history. Justice Amy Coney Barrett describes how the Supreme Court's majority came to that conclusion on this week's episode of "Interesting Times." She tells Ross Douthat the tools she uses to interpret the law.
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Oct 17, 2025
The veteran Middle East negotiators Hussein Agha and Robert Malley assess the promises and pitfalls of Trump's peace deal.
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Oct 17, 2025
The only way to contain Putin is with a resolute show of strength.
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Oct 17, 2025
Who lost the debate may be clearer than who won.
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Oct 17, 2025
Trump's crypto windfall represents a mixing of personal and government interests at an unprecedented scale.
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Oct 17, 2025
The postwar generation had a good run. Now we're all paying for it.
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Oct 17, 2025
Baby boomers had a good run. Now we're all paying for it.
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Oct 17, 2025
The secret of Donald Trump's success with the Israeli prime minister was offering carrots on domestic politics — not sticks on foreign policy.
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Oct 16, 2025
The way to advance his worldview, he argues, is to show that it works.
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Oct 16, 2025
Responses to an essay about President Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." Also: Bikes in the park; a vigil against political violence.
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Oct 16, 2025
The Supreme Court justice isn't making decisions based on public opinion.
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Oct 16, 2025
Francesca Albanese's provocative allegations have made her a villain to some and a hero to others.
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Oct 16, 2025
The way to advance his worldview, he argues, is to show that it works.
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Oct 16, 2025
Don't mistake a revolution for a revival.
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Oct 16, 2025
Ten years into the Trump era, Democrats still don't seem to know how to respond.
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Oct 16, 2025
Generative A.I. can do many things human beings can do. But that misses the point about how A.I. can truly benefit us.
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Oct 16, 2025
I fear that the my daughter's experience is too often sidelined in favor of a more palatable version.
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Oct 15, 2025
It seemed that last year's wildfire in Los Angeles had been extinguished safely after two days. But it had just gone underground.
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Oct 15, 2025
Who would have imagined I'd ever praise something Trump did in the world of foreign policy?
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Oct 15, 2025
Thousands of hostages are still awaiting freedom.
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Oct 15, 2025
The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky says that what A.I. wants most is not for humanity to live "happily ever after." "What the entity, the organism, the A.I. ends up wanting has been and will be weird and twisty." Yudkowsky sits down with the Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein to discuss.
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Oct 15, 2025
It seemed that last year's wildfire in Los Angeles had been extinguished safely after two days. But it had just gone underground.
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Oct 15, 2025
Readers respond to a Page A1 article about the lack of class attendance at Harvard. Also: Canceling a report on threats; America today.
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Oct 15, 2025
Will Black voters continue to have an opportunity to elect representatives of their choice, or will decades of hard-won progress disappear?
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Oct 15, 2025
The best safeguard against tyranny is a legion of people who believe in an authority higher than any political program.
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Oct 15, 2025
The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence's existential risks.
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Oct 15, 2025
Circumcision is the latest example of Kennedy seizing on a hot-button issue that already has entrenched and aggressive internet partisans.
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Oct 15, 2025
Will Black voters continue to have an opportunity to elect representatives of their choice, or will decades of hard-won progress disappear?
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Oct 15, 2025
The war might have ended, one lawyer argues, but the occupation remains.
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Oct 15, 2025
The best safeguard against tyranny is a legion of people who believe in an authority higher than any political program.
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Oct 15, 2025
An American bailout can carry the country only so far.
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Oct 14, 2025
Message to Trump: As hard as Stage 1 was for Gaza peace, you have not even seen hard yet.
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Oct 14, 2025
A pious vision of political economy should get more concrete.
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