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The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute

Having “real estate deal guys” as America’s negotiators on the war in Ukraine is a liability, not an advantage. You want a statesman.

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Thomas L. Friedman

I’m an Immigration Lawyer. Trump Is Shattering My Clients’ Lives.

The administration is pausing asylum and upending families.

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Elora Mukherjee

Where Does the Transgender Rights Movement Go From Here?

The lawyer and activist Chase Strangio on cultural divisions and common ground.

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Victoria Chamberlin

Why Republicans Are Starting to Inch Away From Trump

Rare pushback from his party and troubling poll numbers reflect the newly precarious situation in which Trump finds himself.

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Michelle Cottle

Guess Which Presidential Power Trump Likes the Most

In the right hands, the pardon power is too strong. In the wrong hands, it is disastrous.

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Jamelle Bouie

Trump Has Made the Epstein Saga a Case Study in Manipulation

Trump Has Made the Epstein Saga a Case Study in Manipulation

Advertisement Supported by The Editorial Board By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are...

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They Were Supposed to Save Europe. Instead, They’re Condemning It to Horrors.

They Were Supposed to Save Europe. Instead, They’re Condemning It to Horrors.

Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By David Broder Mr. Broder is an expert on European politics and the author of “Mussolini’s...

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David Broder

Robert A.M. Stern Designed New York City Like a 1930s Movie

He was, in the very best way, the Ralph Lauren of architects.

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Paul Goldberger

What the Left Could Learn From Trump’s Brutal Efficiency

Progressives have an opportunity to start thinking boldly again about how to conceive of and use public authority for Americans.

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Marc J. Dunkelman

Should We All Want Lily Allen’s Midlife Crisis?

Should We All Want Lily Allen’s Midlife Crisis?

Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By Lizzy Goodman Ms. Goodman, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, is the author of “Meet...

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Lizzy Goodman

Help a Magazine That Dares to Tell the Truth

Jewish Currents is fighting the good fight.

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M. Gessen

We Had Never Touched. Then Came Our Wedding Night.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish filmmaker asks members of her community about the silent anxieties surrounding intimacy on their wedding nights.

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Rachel Elitzur

The Aesthetic That Explains American Identity Now

The Aesthetic That Explains American Identity Now

Advertisement Supported by The Opinions Why country and cowboys have a hold on our culture and our political imagination. By Meher Ahmad Tressie...

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Vishakha Darbha

This Is How Mamdani Can Pay for Free Buses

This Is How Mamdani Can Pay for Free Buses

Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By Nicolas S. Rohatyn Mr. Rohatyn is the chief executive of the Rohatyn Group, an investment company. New...

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Nicolas S. Rohatyn

Japan Has Changed How the World Must Think About Taiwan

The Japanese leader’s candor over Taiwan brought the shared regional stakes out into the open, and the U.S. must stand behind its ally.

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Craig Singleton

A Serious Journalism Scandal Hiding Inside a Frivolous Sexual One

Olivia Nuzzi doesn’t seem to recognize that her collaboration with Robert Kennedy was a grave professional betrayal.

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Michelle Goldberg

How Congress Should Respond, Right Now, to Trump’s Boat Strikes

Federal lawmakers have ample powers to uncover and end administration abuse.

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Michael Waldman

Ukraine Is Still Worth Fighting For

Ukraine Is Still Worth Fighting For

Advertisement Supported by Bret Stephens By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist The significant fact about Ukraine’s corruption scandal is that it is...

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Bret Stephens

The G.O.P. War on Property Taxes Will Lose Them the Suburbs

The G.O.P. War on Property Taxes Will Lose Them the Suburbs

Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By Aaron M. Renn Mr. Renn is a writer and consultant in Carmel, Ind., and a lifelong Republican. Gov. Ron...

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Aaron M. Renn

Don’t Fear Self-Driving Cars. They Save Lives.

Don’t Fear Self-Driving Cars. They Save Lives.

Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By Jonathan Slotkin Dr. Slotkin is a neurosurgeon. I recently got called to see a teenager ejected in a...

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Jonathan Slotkin

Is There Life for MAGA After Trump?

A field guide to the movement and its future.

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Thomas B. Edsall

The Liberal Order Can’t Heal Itself

The Liberal Order Can’t Heal Itself

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Over Thanksgiving week the talk of the economically focused internet was...

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Ross Douthat

Americans Won’t Have Faith in the Rule of Law Until the Law Works for Them

Americans Won’t Have Faith in the Rule of Law Until the Law Works for Them

Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By Seth Frotman and David Seligman Mr. Frotman was general counsel of the Consumer Financial Protection...

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David Seligman

My Father Died of Hepatitis B Before the Vaccine. We Must Not Go Back.

Changes to the vaccine recommendation could be disastrous.

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Helen Ouyang

How to Prepare Your Kids for the A.I. Revolution

How to Prepare Your Kids for the A.I. Revolution

Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By Soulaiman Itani Dr. Itani is an A.I. developer and a single father to a four-year-old-son. “Daddy, who is...

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Soulaiman Itani

Trump’s New American Empire Won’t Last Forever

Latin Americans have proved surprisingly acquiescent to U.S. aggression — but that won’t last forever.

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Brian Winter

Where Is the Will to Win in Ukraine?

Victory will belong not to the side with more resources, but to the side with the stronger, more adaptive and unyielding will to win.

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Dmytro Kuleba

Farewell to the Beloved Friend in My Window

Winter won’t hold forever, and when it comes, a spider will disappear from the corner where she has made her home.

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Margaret Renkl

This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza

This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza

Supported by Guest Essay Less than two weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, President Joe Biden traveled to Israel and held Prime Minister Benjamin...

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Ben Rhodes

This Holiday Season, Give the Gift That Keeps on Sniffing

This Holiday Season, Give the Gift That Keeps on Sniffing

Advertisement Supported by Frank Bruni By Frank Bruni Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer who was on the staff of The Times for more than 25...

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Frank Bruni

‘I’ve Been Doing This Work for 25 Years and I’ve Never Seen Such Fear’

When ICE arrived in Chicago, this group had an answer.

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David French

America Has Sidelined Education. You Can Help.

The New York Times Communities Fund has partnered with charities that invest in education at critical junctures across people’s life spans.

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How We Became ‘Half in Love With Easeful Death’

Apocalyptic predictions may actually serve as comforting fantasies, at which point our future freakouts become an excuse for inaction.

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Christine Emba

The Medical Case That Still Haunts Me

The Medical Case That Still Haunts Me

Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By Daniela J. Lamas Dr. Lamas, a contributing Opinion writer, is a pulmonary and critical care physician at...

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Daniela J. Lamas

The Fool’s Guide to Major Life Decisions

The Fool’s Guide to Major Life Decisions

Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By Makenna Goodman Ms. Goodman is the author of two novels, “Helen of Nowhere” and “The Shame.” Several...

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Makenna Goodman

We Had a Long, Mostly Good Marriage. It’s OK That It Ended.

Four years ago, my husband and I made an increasingly common choice: We hugged, apologized for our shortcomings and freed each other.

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Cathi Hanauer

Paper-and-Pen Diaries Are Forever

Paper-and-Pen Diaries Are Forever

Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By Lily Koppel Ms. Koppel is the author of “The Red Leather Diary.” I love diaries — physical, bound paper...

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Lily Koppel

These Are the Elements That Define Us

current section: 1/0 offset in current section total progress With its neat grid mapping out all of the chemical elements, the periodic table is a...

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Terra Long