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Help! I Might Be a Tradwife!

Help! I Might Be a Tradwife!

I’m not the target audience for online content about frontier chores and child-rearing. But if I’m honest, domestic rituals help to keep me sane.

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Joanna Novak

Please Don’t Thank Us for the Land

Please Don’t Thank Us for the Land

Conservatives who critique land acknowledgments aren’t acting in good faith, but they do have a point.

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Reid Walker

Platner’s Top Campaign Strategist on What Went Wrong

Platner’s Top Campaign Strategist on What Went Wrong

Morris Katz helped Zohran Mamdani win, and then tried to do the same for Graham Platner. What has he learned?

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Marie Cascione

No Wonder Elon Musk Hates ‘The Odyssey’

No Wonder Elon Musk Hates ‘The Odyssey’

A.I. has rendered eye candy cheap. Viewers long for the visceral.

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Michelle Goldberg

Maybe the Biggest Problem With A.I. Is People

Maybe the Biggest Problem With A.I. Is People

Learning to use A.I. effectively at work is all about using the same tried-and-true skills we use to be a better manager and collaborator.

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Keith Ferrazzi

Our Vast Collective Jeffrey Epstein Failure

Our Vast Collective Jeffrey Epstein Failure

We need to hold accountable the web of accomplices who enabled his crimes.

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Rachel Louise Snyder

China’s A.I. Has a Winning Formula. America, Don’t Panic.

China’s A.I. Has a Winning Formula. America, Don’t Panic.

Open-weight models have been the underlying strength of Chinese artificial intelligence strategy. America should take cues.

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Jason Hsu

We Live With the Violent Mayhem Carlos the Jackal Unleashed

We Live With the Violent Mayhem Carlos the Jackal Unleashed

The type of terrorism that was his signature brand is having a remarkable resurgence, and Americans are nowhere near prepared to deal with it.

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Joby Warrick

Trump’s New Tariffs: Just as Bad as the Old Tariffs

Trump’s New Tariffs: Just as Bad as the Old Tariffs

The administration will keep trying to run around rulings against import fees.

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Natasha Sarin

Iran, China, Canada? A Defense of Trump’s Grand Strategy

Iran, China, Canada? A Defense of Trump’s Grand Strategy

A Pentagon official argues that “people can no longer take the United States for granted.”

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Sophia Alvarez Boyd

This Is What’s Keeping Me Up at Night

This Is What’s Keeping Me Up at Night

Stop the steal before it starts.

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David French

Gen Z Has Lost Its Ambition. Maybe It’s Found Something Better.

Gen Z Has Lost Its Ambition. Maybe It’s Found Something Better.

For Gen Z college graduates, the way millennials lived out their ambitions no longer makes sense.

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Emi Nietfeld

How Can Anyone Trust This Crew With Anything?

How Can Anyone Trust This Crew With Anything?

JD Vance isn’t going to save us. Neither is Pete Hegseth.

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Bret Stephens

Haiti Is a War Zone. Why Are We Banishing Our Neighbors There?

Deporting Haitian migrants will further destabilize a country in crisis.

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Russel L. Honoré

‘The Five-Star Weekend’ Makes Middle Age Look Magical

‘The Five-Star Weekend’ Makes Middle Age Look Magical

Lately, the media loves to humiliate women in their 40s and 50s; this show reveres them.

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Jessica Grose

Gen Z-ers Are Ditching Sex. They Might Be Onto Something.

Gen Z-ers Are Ditching Sex. They Might Be Onto Something.

Is celibacy cool now?

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Vishakha Darbha

Let This Be the Final Word on Culture War Feuding

Let This Be the Final Word on Culture War Feuding

The success of “The Odyssey,” and the potent political ideas at its core, only prove how tiresome the prerelease debate about “woke” really was.

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Sharon Waxman

Trump’s Canada Threats Are Nothing Compared With What’s Coming

Trump’s Canada Threats Are Nothing Compared With What’s Coming

We will be stuck with tariffs long after this president is out of office.

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Josh Lipsky

Joe McCarthy Lives!

Joe McCarthy Lives!

Trump’s attempt to drum up a third red scare is certain to fail.

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Jamelle Bouie

Russia Will Not Yield

Russia Will Not Yield

A journey around the globe showed the country’s relentless adaptation.

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Hanna Notte

Three World Leaders. Three Incredibly Bad Decisions.

The quick-fix fantasies of the world’s strongmen.

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Thomas L. Friedman

Even Under Populism, Elite Failure Is Still a Problem

A new critique of Trumpism is too easy on elites.

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Ross Douthat

Call the Veep, Agent Mulder!

Have the “space Jews” come to get us at last?

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Bret Stephens

This Is a Terrible Way to Address the Risk of A.I. Of Course Trump Loves It.

This Is a Terrible Way to Address the Risk of A.I. Of Course Trump Loves It.

The president has had the government take shares in all sorts of corporations. This approach would be particularly bad for the A.I. industry.

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Sebastian Mallaby

Trump’s Kiss of Death

Trump’s Kiss of Death

On top of everything else, the president is inept.

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Thomas B. Edsall

The Rise of Fashion Slop

The Rise of Fashion Slop

Fast fashion and mall brands used to look to the runways for inspiration. Now, much of their output has been run through an algorithm.

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Amy Odell

The Maduro Case May Be About to Take a Hairpin Turn

The Maduro Case May Be About to Take a Hairpin Turn

It’s a story a century old.

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Michael Rips

I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying New Era.

I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying New Era.

Israel has not been held accountable for its actions in Gaza. The nation and the individuals and countries enabling it to escape punishment may only...

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Omer Bartov

Maine Democrats Are Replacing an Oysterman With a Lumberjack. It Might Just Work.

For the state’s progressives, Graham Platner was tempting. Troy Jackson is tested.

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Matthew Yglesias

Downwardly Mobile in Hollywood

A scriptwriter’s lament about Hollywood’s decline

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Karl Taro Greenfeld

This Is Not the Answer to Soaring Health Care Costs

This Is Not the Answer to Soaring Health Care Costs

A government bureaucrat doesn’t know how much your medicine or doctor’s visit should cost.

20.07.2026 5

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Tony Losasso

This Is Why Our Fresh Produce Keeps Making Us Sick

This Is Why Our Fresh Produce Keeps Making Us Sick

Cyclospora outbreaks are just a small part of a much larger food safety crisis linked to fresh produce.

20.07.2026 6

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Timothy D. Lytton

Taxing New York’s Second Homes Is a Step Toward Fairness

Taxing New York’s Second Homes Is a Step Toward Fairness

The recent debate over the new pied-à-terre tax in the city offers a useful case study.

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The Editorial Board

Enough Democratic Drama. North Carolina Has a Better, Boring Way.

Enough Democratic Drama. North Carolina Has a Better, Boring Way.

There are important lessons in my state’s Senate race.

20.07.2026 6

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Frank Bruni

A.I. Drones Are Coming. We Are Not Ready.

A.I. Drones Are Coming. We Are Not Ready.

World leaders are marching us toward an uncertain era of new warfare — fast.

20.07.2026 7

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W.j. Hennigan

Loyalists, Populists, Optimists … American Politics Doesn’t Have 2 Camps. It Has 8.

Loyalists, Populists, Optimists … American Politics Doesn’t Have 2 Camps. It Has 8.

Think of our two major political parties as two coalitions.

20.07.2026 9

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Kristen Soltis Anderson

How We Watched the World Cup

How We Watched the World Cup

The number of people who attend the World Cup is nothing compared with the sheer world-buckling biomass of those who experience it on a screen.

19.07.2026 10

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Mark O’connell

The Democrats’ ‘Capitalism vs. Socialism’ Debate Is Beyond Useless

The Democrats’ ‘Capitalism vs. Socialism’ Debate Is Beyond Useless

A battle over idealized economic systems doesn’t help Democratic candidates.

19.07.2026 10

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E.j. Dionne Jr

Social Media Hacked Our Attention. A.I. Scares Me More.

Social Media Hacked Our Attention. A.I. Scares Me More.

A.I. plays on our heartstrings, manipulating the systems in our brains that bond us to other people.

19.07.2026 10

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Maia Szalavitz

The Emmy Awards Are Afraid of This Vulgar, Gory, Brilliant Show

The Emmy Awards Are Afraid of This Vulgar, Gory, Brilliant Show

“The Boys” was supersnubbed.

19.07.2026 10

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David Colman

It’s No Longer So Much Fun to Be MAGA in Washington

It’s a vibe shift.

18.07.2026 4

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Sally Quinn

Ketanji Brown Jackson Knows What 1776 Meant

Ketanji Brown Jackson Knows What 1776 Meant

The revolutionary meaning of the Declaration of Independence did not elude her.

18.07.2026 10

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Jamelle Bouie

My Son Was Killed by ICE. I Want Accountability.

My Son Was Killed by ICE. I Want Accountability.

I deserve accountability and transparency, and so does the public.

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Rachel Reyes

The Job Market Is a Game Where Everyone’s a Loser

The Job Market Is a Game Where Everyone’s a Loser

A.I. is destroying the application process for employers and potential employees. We need to fix it.

18.07.2026 4

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Jessica Grose

The ‘Devil’s Bargain’ at the Heart of American Politics Now

This week: the Todd Blanche hearing, Lindsey Graham’s legacy and progressive infighting.

18.07.2026 4

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Derek Arthur

An Eye-Opening Visit to the ‘Little House’ of My Childhood

Laura Ingalls Wilder and the myth of the American West revisited.

18.07.2026 5

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Glynnis Macnicol

Low-T, High Chair

Low-T, High Chair

Where are Hegseth’s hormones when Trump needs them?

18.07.2026 10

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Maureen Dowd

China’s A.I. Play Is Different From America’s

When great powers disagree about the nature of A.I.

18.07.2026 20

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Ross Douthat

How Trump Abused the Power to Declassify America’s Secrets

The president is manipulating the intelligence community into a tool of misinformation.

17.07.2026 6

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Massimo Calabresi

On Fire. Again.

There were orange skies in 2023, 2025 and now again in 2026. Over the last few years, one thing has become glaringly clear: The East Coast is totally...

17.07.2026 6

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David Wallace-Wells