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America and China Have Placed Their Wagers. Now We Wait.

America and China Have Placed Their Wagers. Now We Wait.

The two superpowers have made different wagers. But their fates are intertwined.

28.08.2025 20

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We’re Already Living in the Post-A.I. Future

We’re Already Living in the Post-A.I. Future

Artificial intelligence may change the world, but it probably won’t remake it.

21.08.2025 20

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A Warning From Across the Atlantic for Both Democrats and Republicans

Labour’s collapse in Britain should scare both parties.

14.08.2025 30

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You Are Contaminated

The toxic byproducts of human civilization are everywhere. Even in our bodies.

04.08.2025 300

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Why Rising Rates of Autism and ADHD Might Be a Good Sign

There might be a kind of optimism in diagnosis creep.

31.07.2025 40

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The Epstein Story Is Both Conspiracy Theory and Genuine Scandal

More than a client list, MAGA is looking for meaning.

17.07.2025 80

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10 Ways of Making Sense of Zohran Mamdani’s Win

New York City’s surprising primary result has ramifications for the whole country.

03.07.2025 80

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The Judgment of History Won’t Save Gaza

The airstrikes on Iran seem to have closed a chapter.

26.06.2025 40

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Kennedy’s Purge Is a ‘Code Red’ for Vaccines in America

The H.H.S. secretary is destroying the public trust.

19.06.2025 100

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Protest Is Underrated

We can’t forget what protests are supposed to do: bring change over time.

15.06.2025 50

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Trump’s Budget Tells Three Unhappy Truths About America

Features of the budget: A supercharged ICE, school vouchers and no relief for a warming planet.

12.06.2025 30

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Our Regression on Gender Is a Tragedy, Not Just a Political Problem

Progress seemed inevitable just a few years ago. Now it is in danger.

05.06.2025 70

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Why Does It Matter Whether Covid Came Out of a Lab?

The shifting consensus says more about our politics than the science of Covid.

22.05.2025 10

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‘Trump Is Not Crazy’: Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Beating the Right

The French radical believes that France has something to teach the world.

08.05.2025 40

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Can We Really Fight Climate Change When We’re Not Scared?

The state of the climate, Part II.

01.05.2025 20

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‘He’s Often Working Backward From a Conclusion’: Three Opinion Writers on Kennedy

A conversation about the health secretary’s first two months.

27.04.2025 30

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We’re All Conspiracy Theorists Now. Why?

We are caught up in a vast web. But the strands are visible.

27.03.2025 40

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The Entire Future of American Public Health Is at Risk

Trump’s appointees don’t believe in the concept of a public in the first place.

20.03.2025 100

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Where Trump Is Giving Liberals a Hand

Being known as an enemy of Trump has become great politics in Canada and Mexico

13.03.2025 20

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How Covid Remade America

It feels as if the pandemic is behind us. But we’re living in the world it made.

04.03.2025 40

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Five Years Ago, We Were Terrified of Covid. We Were Right to Be Afraid.

Five years since a novel virus spread everywhere, its hard to remember what the beginning was like.

27.02.2025 100

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Are We Just Going to Forget About Climate Justice?

A provocative new book asks what we owe one another in a heating world.

20.02.2025 7

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This Isn’t Reform. It’s Sabotage.

Musk and Trump are launching a frontal assault on the concept of democratic governance

06.02.2025 50

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‘Performing for an Audience of One’: Three Opinion Writers on Kennedy’s Confirmation Hearing

Opinion writers discuss issues from vaccines to Medicaid.

30.01.2025 30

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After the L.A. Fires, a New Menace Lingers

Urban firestorms leave behind the detritus of entire neighborhoods in the air.

30.01.2025 20

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Wars and Rumors of Wars

Hollywood’s silence reveals the contours of our escalating conflict with China; we’re digesting the war on TikTok, instead.

24.01.2025 10

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‘Grab, Grab, Grab’: Trump’s First 100 Days

In this first episode of a new series, David Wallace-Wells joins Patrick Healy to examine what President Trump’s position on climate change tells us...

23.01.2025 10

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‘The Best Government Money Can Buy’

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By David Wallace-Wells Opinion Writer For a while, it seemed, the future had disappeared from American...

12.12.2024 20

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The False Premise Shaping Trump’s Public Health Picks

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By David Wallace-Wells Opinion Writer To look at the short list of names Donald Trump is hoping to appoint...

28.11.2024 30

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Why You May Be Wrong About Harris’s Loss

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By David Wallace-Wells Opinion Writer The presidential election was two weeks ago, and the country’s...

23.11.2024 70

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Climate Change Is Losing Its Grip on Our Politics

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By David Wallace-Wells Opinion Writer When the COP29 climate conference comes to an end next week, it will...

17.11.2024 40

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What Happens if China Stops Trying to Save the World?

Much of the good news about green energy is coming out of one country.

16.09.2024 5

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We All Live in Vegas Now

Advertisement Supported by David Wallace-Wells By David Wallace-Wells Opinion Writer In 2022, Americans lost $60 billion betting at licensed...

22.08.2024 30

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Does Harris Actually Need to Move Democrats Right?

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By David Wallace-Wells Opinion Writer The ascension of Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic ticket...

14.08.2024 2

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