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Apr 29, 2026
In the name of disentangling race from politics, the court has given white voters more power at the expense of racial minorities.
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Apr 29, 2026
It's been a big year for the abundance movement, but what has it really achieved? Ezra Klein talks with his "Abundance" co-author Derek Thompson and with Marc Dunkelman, the author of "Why Nothing Works."
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Apr 29, 2026
In the Iran war, we have two overconfident administrations facing off, each believing that time is on its side.
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Apr 29, 2026
Rents are falling in Texas — and the reason is simpler than you think. Derek Thompson, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, tells the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein how Dallas and Austin have shown that the only real cure for a housing crisis is an aggressive, unrelenting surge in supply.
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Apr 29, 2026
How can the left deliver on its promises if it can't even navigate its own "horrendous" bureaucracy? On "The Ezra Klein Show," the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein reflects on Senator Bernie Sanders's frustrations with government, and argues that government efficiency is the essential "common sense" foundation for a radical vision of American abundance.
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Apr 29, 2026
It won't be so easy to extract ourselves from this conflict.
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Apr 29, 2026
Readers discuss the James Comey indictment and the Jimmy Kimmel joke. Also: The U.S.A.I.D. tragedy; privatizing the mail.
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Apr 29, 2026
Body camera footage reveals a disturbing pattern of state and federal officials using minor traffic stops to target Black and brown drivers.
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Apr 29, 2026
Steven Rattner argues that Trump's effort to bail out the ailing carrier makes no sense.
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Apr 29, 2026
This is a man who rarely travels beyond the confines of the White House compound or Mar-a-Lago.
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Apr 29, 2026
Washington should govern prediction markets as if national security were at stake, because it is.
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Apr 29, 2026
New body camera footage from Nashville reveals a disturbing pattern of ICE and state troopers using minor traffic stops to target Black and brown drivers.
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Apr 29, 2026
NATO countries need to get their act together.
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Apr 28, 2026
The distinguishing feature of Cole Tomas Allen's manifesto is its insipidity.
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Apr 28, 2026
Assassination attempts against sitting presidents have tended to compound their political problems and isolate them from the public.
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Apr 28, 2026
"I would not wish measles upon my fiercest enemy," a reader writes of the recent resurgence.
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Apr 28, 2026
The resonance of the pontiff-versus-president imbroglio reveals a hunger for moral authority at a time that feels deeply disoriented and spiritually thin.
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Apr 28, 2026
Social media helped put Trump over the top. What's A.I. going to do to us?
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Apr 28, 2026
It's been a big year for the abundance movement, but what has it really achieved? Ezra Klein talks with his "Abundance" co-author Derek Thompson and with Marc Dunkelman, the author of "Why Nothing Works."
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Apr 28, 2026
Nobody can afford to be relaxed about their digital security anymore.
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Apr 28, 2026
The resonance of the pontiff-versus-president imbroglio reveals a hunger for moral authority at a time that feels deeply disoriented and spiritually thin.
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Apr 28, 2026
The far right is conflating Israel with Jewishness.
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Apr 28, 2026
Haiti's revolution shocked the world. America still isn't over it.
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Apr 28, 2026
Haiti's revolution shocked the world. America still isn't over it.
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Apr 27, 2026
Each act of political violence further frays our threadbare social fabric, laying the foundation for authoritarianism.
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Apr 27, 2026
Each act of political violence further frays our threadbare social fabric, laying the foundation for authoritarianism.
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Apr 27, 2026
Trump built his political brand on being the ultimate negotiator, but in his second term that image is crumbling. On "The Opinions," the columnist Carlos Lozada argues that we're witnessing "the limits to his deal-making prowess, especially internationally."
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Apr 27, 2026
Courtesy can be tactical as well as virtuous.
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Apr 27, 2026
Readers discuss political violence, online rumors, gun control and security measures.
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Apr 27, 2026
Readers discuss political violence, online rumors, gun control and security measures.
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Apr 27, 2026
The feed makes everything, bombs and nachos and the dead, weigh the same. Which is to say: nothing.
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Apr 27, 2026
Revenge-based criminal cases against the president's enemies have not come to fruition. That's where the U.S. attorneys come in.
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Apr 27, 2026
The midterms look promising. Looks can deceive.
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Apr 27, 2026
Federal judges have a duty to enforce the War Powers Act.
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Apr 27, 2026
Revenge-based criminal cases against the president's enemies have not come to fruition. That's where the U.S. attorneys come in.
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Apr 27, 2026
As the environment becomes more treacherous, stuff won't keep us safe.
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Apr 26, 2026
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Eric Alterman, about the power of the Arthur Miller play. Also: Patients and chatbots.
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Apr 26, 2026
The world is looking to Volodymyr Zelensky for leadership.
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Apr 26, 2026
There's more to Derrick Adams's paintings than Black joy. But that complicated emotion is what tugs at the heart.
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Apr 26, 2026
A revealing glimpse of the state of the Supreme Court, on the verge of momentous rulings in the weeks ahead.
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Apr 26, 2026
How ICE transformed a Chicago neighborhood.
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Apr 26, 2026
The Iran conflict resembles others the United States has been involved in recently: easy to start and hard to end.
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Apr 26, 2026
The short answer: not really. The long answer: maybe with a little help.
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Apr 25, 2026
Trump owes the world an agreement with Iran to curb its pursuit of a bomb.
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Apr 25, 2026
Reversing the new vaccine skepticism will require a dedicated effort.
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Apr 25, 2026
We're on a #fitnessjourney together.
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Apr 25, 2026
His political malpractice will loom large in the history of Trump 2.0.
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Apr 25, 2026
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Clifford Winston on the death of the affordable car.
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Apr 25, 2026
The president is buried in the graveyard of vanity.
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Apr 25, 2026
I've been a lifelong follower of Michael Jackson, a stance that sometimes I can't defend, even to myself.
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Apr 25, 2026
Trump owes the world an agreement with Iran to curb its pursuit of a bomb.
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Apr 25, 2026
Reversing the new vaccine skepticism will require a dedicated effort.
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Apr 25, 2026
What moving deadlines — and red lines — in Iran means for America's leverage.
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Apr 24, 2026
How did looking back at the Earth for the first time change humanity's perspective? The legendary thinker Stewart Brand tells the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein why we need to shift our focus from "looking outward" to the essential, constant work of maintaining our civilizations and the planet itself.
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Apr 24, 2026
Stewart Brand, an author and visionary, deeply influenced the internet era from the 1960s onward. Yet the systems he inspired have become fundamentally unintelligible to their creators. The Opinion columnist Ezra Klein explores the tension between Brand's "how to" philosophy and the black-box reality of modern A.I. on "The Ezra Klein Show."
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Apr 24, 2026
The counterculture icon Stewart Brand is advocating values that are more countercultural than ever.
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Apr 24, 2026
Readers discuss why there are relatively few young people protesting against President Trump. Also: Psychotherapy for a change; Denmark and Ukraine.
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Apr 24, 2026
Two recent fatal shootings underscore the need to encourage the use of an assessment tool.
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Apr 24, 2026
They championed diversity, equity and inclusion policies for years. Now they have complicated feelings about what they built.
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Apr 24, 2026
To salvage a decent peace with Iran, President Trump must learn the lessons of his war.
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Apr 24, 2026
The counterculture icon is advocating values that are more countercultural than ever.
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Apr 24, 2026
Rather than honestly reckoning with their role in America's derangement, MAGA apostates are creating a scapegoat to explain it away.
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Apr 24, 2026
Here's how President Trump can get us out of the mess in Iran.
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Apr 24, 2026
In our constitutional system, we have to think about what will happen when the tables are turned.
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Apr 24, 2026
In "Divided," four former D.E.I. leaders come together to examine the system they once built — and question what it's really doing.
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Apr 24, 2026
The trucking industry captured its regulator, and safety suffered.
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Apr 24, 2026
They championed diversity, equity and inclusion policies for years. Now they have complicated feelings about what they built.
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Apr 24, 2026
Nearly five years in Cuban prison have taught me that the government won't loosen its hold on power.
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Apr 23, 2026
Is there inherent corruption in Trump's approach to cryptocurrency? Ross Douthat unpacks the Trump family's crypto holdings with Bitcoin investor Anthony Pompliano and debates whether crypto is just an "investment in vibes" that's "bound up in Trump's political fortunes."
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Apr 23, 2026
Stability is the single biggest lie in financial markets, the investor and Bitcoin evangelist Anthony Pompliano tells the columnist Ross Douthat on "Interesting Times." The "volatility generation" is embracing Bitcoin because traditional assets like Treasuries are actually designed to lose money, he argues.
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Apr 23, 2026
Complications of spelling in English can lead to complications in pronunciation.
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Apr 23, 2026
Readers respond to The Times's front-page investigation of the court. Also: Lee Zeldin and the E.P.A.; talking to Iran.
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Apr 23, 2026
Big parts of the Rio Grande Valley turned against the party in recent years. One candidate is trying to win it back, one quinceañera at a time.
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Apr 23, 2026
What the crypto currency promises that the dollar doesn't.
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Apr 23, 2026
What fighting an unjust war really means.
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Apr 23, 2026
Tim Cook made Apple a juggernaut, but he did so by risking America's economic and political security.
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Apr 23, 2026
Normal language is inadequate and precedents are irrelevant when it comes to appraising the senior administration officials of the president's second term.
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Apr 23, 2026
Israel isn't just targeting Hezbollah in the latest war. It is also targeting the multireligious fabric of Lebanese society.
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Apr 23, 2026
Scenes from life in a global era increasingly shaped by confrontations with authoritarian power.
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Apr 22, 2026
America's social contract has broken down, Hasan Piker argues, and the wealthy steal, too — just in ways that the system protects. So can shoplifting by the 99 percent be a form of political protest? Watch this episode of "The Opinions" to hear the debate.
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Apr 22, 2026
Would you steal from Whole Foods? On "The Opinions," Jia Tolentino and Hasan Piker join the Opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman for a candid conversation about microlooting, petty theft and the moral lines people draw, from shoplifting from big corporations to whether they'd ever dine and dash.
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Apr 22, 2026
Don't retreat from the world; engage it.
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Apr 22, 2026
How the war's disruptions are accelerating the shift to green energy.
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Apr 22, 2026
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Roger Rosenblatt. Also: The pianist András Schiff shows a way to protest.
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Apr 22, 2026
Trump is betting on a quick victory, but Iran's higher pain threshold means his blockade will prolong the war.
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Apr 22, 2026
Why petty theft might be the new political protest.
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Apr 22, 2026
It's the most iconic image of our planet. Decades before the Artemis II mission, a group of astronauts experienced an Earth rising for the first time. This Earth Day, hear their story and the story of a photograph that changed the way we think about our place in the universe.
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Apr 22, 2026
It's not just because of A.I. This started 40 years ago.
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Apr 22, 2026
It's not just because of A.I. This started 40 years ago.
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Apr 22, 2026
Jason Furman, Neera Tanden and Elizabeth Wilkins discuss.
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Apr 22, 2026
The president is one of a kind.
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Apr 22, 2026
At campaign stops, he talks about high gas prices and Trump's incompetence. But the core of his message is an unflinching disgust for forever war.
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Apr 21, 2026
A super PAC that's funded by co-founders of Palantir, OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz is spending millions on attack ads opposing Alex Bores's campaign for Congress. On "The Ezra Klein Show," the New York state assemblyman explains how tech companies have targeted his pro-regulation positions, despite publicly claiming to welcome A.I. oversight.
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Apr 21, 2026
What if the A.I. boom takes not just your job, but most jobs? The congressional candidate Alex Bores joins the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein to pitch an "A.I. Dividend" — a policy devised to fund a universal basic income if A.I. begins to outmatch human labor.
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Apr 21, 2026
Americans hold Israel to a higher standard than their other allies. That's a good thing.
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Apr 21, 2026
A Yale report offers some honest self-reflection on where the university went wrong.
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Apr 21, 2026
The smashing of a statue of Jesus by an Israeli soldier and the founding of four provocative settlements together show Israel's thoughtless path forward.
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Apr 21, 2026
The attack against Sam Altman reflects how badly Silicon Valley needs to address the societal consequences of its products.
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Apr 21, 2026
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by David Plouffe. Also: Why mothers are burned out; national referendums.
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Apr 21, 2026
There is a contest Trump is winning.
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