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China Looks Strong. Life Here Tells a Different Story.

Despair about dimming economic and personal prospects has created an outwardly strong, inwardly brittle nation.

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Helen Gao

Welcome to the Washington Demolition Derby

And yet, a little, precious seedling of hope is emerging.

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Bret Stephens

Voters View Republicans as ‘Strong’ and a Party of Action. Democrats Need Some of That.

Though G.O.P. members are more likely to be viewed as “extreme,” they trounce their opponents on who is more effective.

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Kristen Soltis Anderson

Trump v. James and Maurene Comey

The legal precedent established by Maurene Comey’s case may turn out to be far more consequential than the finding in her father’s.

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Jeffrey Toobin

The Business Elite Needs Mamdani. They Just Don’t Know It Yet.

The threat from Washington is going to require teamwork.

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Neil Barsky

Most Women Can Still Get Abortion Pills. That May Soon Change.

Most Women Can Still Get Abortion Pills. That May Soon Change.

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Africa Is Rising. The World Shouldn’t Turn Its Back.

Lydia Polgreen speaks to the former New York Times bureau chief Howard W. French about the cost of not engaging with Africa.

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Derek Arthur

You’re a Computer Science Major. Don’t Panic.

We taught a generation how to write code. Now we need to teach future generations how to edit code.

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Michael Hilton

Democrats Are Teaching Trump the Wrong Lesson

They need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal.

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Jamelle Bouie

What the Movies Need From Sydney Sweeney

Only stardom can save Hollywood.

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Ross Douthat

Tim Kaine: Why I Voted to End the Shutdown

Extending the government shutdown would not have worked.

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Tim Kaine

I’m a Psychoanalyst. This Is What Technology Is Doing to Us.

We’ve lost the capacity to feel the grief technology brings.

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Steven Barrie-Anthony

Chuck Schumer Is a Convenient Punching Bag. There Was No Happy Outcome for the Shutdown.

The shutdown still may be a net gain for Democrats.

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Josh Barro

Steve Bannon Thinks Zohran Mamdani Is a Genius. It’s Not a Feint.

Key elements of the mayor-elect’s campaign have enormous potential for a party that was badly beaten in 2024.

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Thomas B. Edsall

Meet the New Antisemites, Same as the Old Antisemites

A bigotry for morons will always be political gold in a world of morons.

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Bret Stephens

Alex Karp Went From Biden Donor to Trump Enabler. Why?

A tech billionaire professes to hate identity politics, but they seem in some ways to consume him.

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Michelle Goldberg

‘Thanks, U.S.A.’

To imagine the cost of an “America First” policy, walk through World War II cemeteries in Europe.

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Jonathan Darman

This Is No Way to Rule a Country

Governments shouldn’t hand over decision-making to A.I.

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Andrew Sorota

There Is No Cease-Fire in the West Bank

Violence in the occupied territories continues even if hostilities in Gaza have cooled.

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Mairav Zonszein

The Promise of the Bronx River Parkway

A pioneering road shows what highways were and what they can be as it turns 100.

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Thomas J. Campanella

Make Medical School Three Years

Medicine shouldn’t be a career for the wealthy alone.

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Vitor B. De Souza

Democrats Were on a Roll. Why Stop Now?

Democrats Were on a Roll. Why Stop Now?

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We’re In a New Everything-Is-Connected Epoch. But What to Call It?

We have arrived at a “Polycene” moment where binary systems are giving way to multiple interconnected ones.

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Thomas L. Friedman

Now We Know Trump’s Kryptonite

Democratic election victories should kill the myth that Trumpism is invincible.

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E. J. Dionne Jr

‘We Have a Border for a Reason’

Cecilia Muñoz on how to solve America’s biggest political challenge.

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Jillian Weinberger

What Is Kennedy’s Problem With Medication?

Shaming people for being on medication is dangerous.

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Maia Szalavitz

What Even Is a ‘Good’ Job?

What Even Is a ‘Good’ Job?

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Dani Rodrik

Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do

Murderous attacks on Christians and Muslims alike are a real problem in Nigeria. Cutting humanitarian assistance there is even more lethal.

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Nicholas Kristof

Cruelty, Bigotry and Rage. What’s Not to Like?

This is what happens when the fringe becomes the mainstream (and vice versa).

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David French

Josh Shapiro Knows What the Democrats Need

Josh Shapiro Knows What the Democrats Need

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America Is Losing the Fight for the Teenagers of the World

Pop culture exports have long been a potent source of American soft power. What happens when the U.S. is no longer the global capital of cool?

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Stephen Marche

Exercising Is the Worst

Exercise has never been fun, but our expectations for physical performance, what it means to be healthy, and what it means to age have gotten too...

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Rachel Feintzeig

The Aesthetic That Won New York City

Zohran Mamdani made the city glow, bringing a beauty to the everyday fixtures we ceased to register.

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Zaina Arafat

A.I. Is on Its Way to Something Even More Remarkable Than Intelligence

A.I. Is on Its Way to Something Even More Remarkable Than Intelligence

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Barbara Gail Montero

Bruce Springsteen’s Father Complicates a Powerful American Narrative

He had a good factory job that helped him raise a family. But it didn’t save him from despair.

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Mitchell Duneier