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Nov 26, 2025
California and eight other states have outdated restrictions on building nuclear power plants.
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Nov 25, 2025
An opportunity for families and friends and, by extension, communities, states, and the country itself to have a national reset.
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Nov 25, 2025
The president has a very big immunity umbrella.
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Nov 25, 2025
Readers express sorrow about her cancer and dismay at her cousin's actions as health secretary. Also: Revenge prosecutions; Mark Kelly; donors to universities.
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Nov 25, 2025
The Trump administration is using its antitrust powers mostly to protect Mr. Trump.
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Nov 25, 2025
The president has a very big immunity umbrella.
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Nov 25, 2025
Like your astrological sign, what you bring says a lot about who you are.
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Nov 25, 2025
This holiday season, I am donating to nonprofits that help make community ecosystems and nature's ecosystems more resilient.
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Nov 25, 2025
A journey to the fringe of MAHA.
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Nov 25, 2025
To stay relevant for 2028, the party needs to figure one out.
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Nov 25, 2025
The Trump administration is using its antitrust powers mostly to protect Mr. Trump.
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Nov 24, 2025
The administration's drug war rhetoric seems like a pretext. But a pretext for what?
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Nov 24, 2025
Readers strongly object to David Brooks's argument that we should focus on more important issues. Also: Firings at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Nov 24, 2025
Democrats also have to shed the last vestiges of woke.
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Nov 24, 2025
Aren't his apologists exhausted by their moral calisthenics?
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Nov 24, 2025
Aren't his apologists exhausted by their moral calisthenics?
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Nov 24, 2025
It has a little something to do with Donald Trump.
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Nov 24, 2025
Democrats also have to shed the last vestiges of woke.
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Nov 24, 2025
The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning.
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Nov 24, 2025
Caregivers are at the brink of despair.
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Nov 24, 2025
"If America hasn't broken your heart, you don't love her enough," the New Jersey senator argues.
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Nov 23, 2025
Readers respond to a guest essay about the religious feelings inspired by Fra Angelico's painting. Also: Down times at the movies.
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Nov 23, 2025
Who should take responsibility for the president's undeclared war in the Caribbean?
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Nov 23, 2025
If we want more places for people to live, we're going to have to get more creative.
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Nov 23, 2025
All you need is common sense.
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Nov 23, 2025
This power elite was already used to ignoring the powerless. Redeeming a disgraced sex offender was a logical next step.
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Nov 23, 2025
Making America less hospitable to newcomers will eventually make our country poorer.
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Nov 23, 2025
This is not your average chatbot.
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Nov 23, 2025
The war in Ukraine has become a fateful conflict of Russia and the West.
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Nov 23, 2025
We need to let go of our legacy print snobbery.
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Nov 22, 2025
Once again, we see how far this country will go to maintain the power of men at the expense of women's bodies.
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Nov 22, 2025
"You need this renewal. You need new figures who are untouched, who were never part of these awful power games," the columnist Lydia Polgreen argues.
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Nov 22, 2025
If Ukraine is forced to surrender to these terms by Thursday, Thanksgiving will no longer be an American holiday. It will become a Russian holiday.
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Nov 22, 2025
It's not a winning strategy.
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Nov 22, 2025
There are no easy answers for the current economic discontent.
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Nov 22, 2025
The Epstein files are coming. But will Americans be able to fully trust them?
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Nov 22, 2025
The release of more Epstein files could take down many prominent men in Washington — both Republicans and Democrats. But for the columnist Lydia Polgreen, the purge is not a bad thing. "You need this renewal," she says on this episode of "The Opinions."
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Nov 22, 2025
Trump, remarkably, finds a new low.
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Nov 22, 2025
On Tuesday, victims of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein gathered to bring attention to the House vote to release the Epstein files. On this episode of "The Opinions," the contributing Opinion writer Molly Jong-Fast describes the connection these women felt with one another and with their Republican advocate Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. "They're not faking it," Jong-Fast says. "They had a real camaraderie."
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Nov 22, 2025
Once again, we see how far this country will go to maintain the power of men at the expense of women's bodies.
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Nov 22, 2025
The story begins in the 1970s.
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Nov 22, 2025
Readers respond to a guest essay proposing a shortened three-year course of study for aspiring doctors.
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Nov 22, 2025
Each dollar you donate through my holiday guide will generate $4 to nonprofits that are making our world a better place.
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Nov 22, 2025
The war in Ukraine has become a fateful conflict of Russia and the West.
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Nov 22, 2025
"You need this renewal. You need new figures who are untouched, who were never part of these awful power games," the columnist Lydia Polgreen argues.
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Nov 21, 2025
Since his election, Zohran Mamdani has made some surprisingly pragmatic or traditional choices — including his surreal meeting with President Trump.
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Nov 21, 2025
Thoughts on current and future of "a coalition uniquely built by Trump."
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Nov 21, 2025
War and diplomacy: Readers react to developments on Russia and Ukraine. Also: A global democracy deficit; a sad phone.
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Nov 21, 2025
Conspiracy mongering about Epstein is making the progressive project impossible.
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Nov 21, 2025
Thoughts on current and future of "a coalition uniquely built by Trump."
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Nov 21, 2025
The United States, not China, seems determined to upend the global order.
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Nov 21, 2025
From the day he took the oath of office, the president has pursued policies that are making life in America less affordable.
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Nov 21, 2025
Something new is happening in the breadth and ferocity of efforts to change the makeup of this country.
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Nov 21, 2025
Trump's show of force toward Venezuela has created a disastrous political trap — for Venezuelans most of all.
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Nov 20, 2025
A brief history of the National Guard in Washington.
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Nov 20, 2025
Why is it so hard for the right to draw a boundary at antisemitism in its coalition? According to Yoram Hazony, an Israeli political theorist, it's because the group wasn't prepared to navigate the "explosion" of antisemitism. In this week's "Interesting Times," he tells Ross Douthat how future leaders can have a bigger tent without giving people like Nick Fuentes "a seat at the table."
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Nov 20, 2025
Is the recent onslaught of antisemitism on the right a result of the Israel-Hamas war? In this episode of "Interesting Times," Yoram Hazony, an Israeli political theorist, explains how foreign policy is just one of the various forms that anti-Jewish messaging can take.
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Nov 20, 2025
Hochul can show how Democrats wary of a mayor-elect's populist brand of socialism can push back against it.
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Nov 20, 2025
The incompetence of the Trump administration is interfering with some of its worst excesses.
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Nov 20, 2025
Understanding the Right's antisemitic turn.
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Nov 20, 2025
Readers discuss what President Trump revealed in his meeting with the Saudi crown prince. Also: Albania's A.I. "civil servant"; bullfighting as torture.
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Nov 20, 2025
Kennedy has a rhetorical advantage in that his deceptions can be definitive while scientific honesty has to come with caveats.
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Nov 20, 2025
Have we been selling her short? Is she paving the way to the after-Trump?
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Nov 20, 2025
It's deeper than Nick Fuentes.
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Nov 20, 2025
The incompetence of the Trump administration is interfering with some of its worst excesses.
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Nov 20, 2025
Hochul can show how Democrats wary of a mayor-elect's populist brand of socialism can push back against it.
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Nov 20, 2025
Investors' excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.
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Nov 19, 2025
Working with imperfect partners does not mean that the United States should cover up and lie about their misdeeds.
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Nov 19, 2025
Working with imperfect partners does not mean that the United States should cover up and lie about their misdeeds.
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Nov 19, 2025
All politics is global now — and that's especially true around immigration.
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Nov 19, 2025
Readers react to the White House meeting between President Trump and the Saudi crown prince. Also: Skin care for little kids; when libraries close.
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Nov 19, 2025
We need to support working-class kids before the 21st century abandons them completely.
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Nov 19, 2025
The internet should enrich people, not advertisers.
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Nov 19, 2025
They came bearing gifts. They left with what they wanted.
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Nov 19, 2025
Women's pain is not entertainment.
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Nov 19, 2025
The internet should enrich people, not advertisers.
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Nov 19, 2025
His ill-conceived tariff war exposed U.S. vulnerabilities, strengthened China's leverage and undermined America at a pivotal time.
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Nov 18, 2025
People with extreme ideology don't care anymore about hiding their excesses or their agendas. It's all out there online or on YouTube.
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Nov 18, 2025
Notes on an unstable but necessary idea.
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Nov 18, 2025
Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy Mace resisted pressure from the president and made the vote to release the Epstein files possible.
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Nov 18, 2025
The view from Dartmouth, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wesleyan.
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Nov 18, 2025
The price of "no enemies on the right" is going up.
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Nov 18, 2025
Readers respond to a guest essay about artificial (and human) intelligence and consciousness. Also: Kennedy Center ripple effects; cobblestone streets.
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Nov 18, 2025
The price of "no enemies on the right" is going up.
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Nov 18, 2025
Ro Khanna argues that even though there is a risk in releasing the documents, it still needs to happen.
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Nov 18, 2025
The election of Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger has deepened the pool of potential Oval Office occupants.
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Nov 18, 2025
In the face of shareholders, corporate boards and even judges, Tesla's chief executive shows what he can get away with.
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Nov 18, 2025
The view from Dartmouth, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wesleyan.
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Nov 18, 2025
Life lessons from the "Godmother of Punk."
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Nov 18, 2025
We should not demand ever more knowledge of newcomers and ever less of our current citizens.
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Nov 18, 2025
My sister and I went on a joint diet. She stopped and I didn't.
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Nov 18, 2025
My sister and I went on a joint diet. She stopped and I didn't.
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Nov 18, 2025
Ukraine understands this. Europe should get on board with it, too.
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Nov 17, 2025
Even if the Epstein files never come out, it's increasingly clear that a Trump coalition is fragmenting.
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Nov 17, 2025
They came to the U.S. legally. ICE jailed them anyway. Jemmy Jimenez Rosa, Ayman Soliman and Jasmine Mooney share their stories from inside a cruel detention system that operates with impunity.
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Nov 17, 2025
Can the right find its way back to small government? Sarah Isgur thinks so.
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Nov 17, 2025
Thinking through the case for intervention in Venezuela.
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Nov 17, 2025
Readers react to developments in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Also: A teacher's suspension.
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Nov 17, 2025
The crown prince will meet President Trump with an agenda aimed at protecting the kingdom's interests.
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Nov 17, 2025
The path is more promising than you think.
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