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Oct 27, 2025
Since their devastating defeat in the 2024 election, Democrats have been confronting the party's shortcomings, including their failure to connect with the working class. Tim Shenk, a historian and assistant professor at George Washington University, explains how Democrats can win back voters: combining the populism of the Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn and the progressivism of the New York City Democratic nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
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Oct 27, 2025
Sampling the outpouring of responses to a column by Ross Douthat about the East Wing and the ballroom. Also: Everyday acts of grace; Canada and President Trump.
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Oct 27, 2025
It starts with bad auto loans. It spirals out quickly.
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Oct 27, 2025
Republicans aren't just gerrymandering my state. They're erasing its political identity.
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Oct 27, 2025
The Harvard historian on why change requires "determination and imagination."
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Oct 27, 2025
Obsessive fandom must not become its own sort of conservatorship.
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Oct 27, 2025
Trump's immigration tactics violate both the law and human decency.
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Oct 27, 2025
It starts with bad auto loans. It spirals out quickly.
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Oct 27, 2025
His rise is both a symptom and a cause of the newly febrile mood in Britain.
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Oct 27, 2025
Will Donald Trump learn Gerald Ford's bitter lesson?
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Oct 27, 2025
Jared Abbott, the director of the Center for Working-Class Politics, explains what polling data reveals about the Democratic Party's brand.
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Oct 27, 2025
The Times editorial board critiques the Supreme Court's overuse of the emergency docket to deliver consequential decisions without explaining its reasoning.
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Oct 27, 2025
Washington must dedicate itself to making sure an international stabilization force is established for Gaza. It's the linchpin.
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Oct 26, 2025
I thought our frenzied quest to find the trendy doll would teach my daughter a lesson. It did, just not the one I expected.
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Oct 26, 2025
Sampling the outpouring of responses to an Opinion video about the boomers and their successors. Also: The Democrats' message.
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Oct 26, 2025
Jared Abbott, the director of the Center for Working-Class Politics, explains why working-class voters feel a "representation gap" from the Democratic Party despite shifting left on most issues over the last few decades.
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Oct 26, 2025
Whether he is negotiating a deal in the Middle East, bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela or deploying troops to American cities, it's always about power.
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Oct 26, 2025
Kids fell hard for Springsteen because he didn't provoke or challenge, boast or tease; he inhabited and affirmed.
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Oct 26, 2025
The N.B.A. should have known this was coming.
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Oct 26, 2025
What can go wrong in an economy built on speculation and risk.
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Oct 26, 2025
It's actually great to be in my 80s.
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Oct 26, 2025
The first time photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn saw a portrait of Omar ibn Said, she felt he was speaking to her.
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Oct 25, 2025
History suggests that an effort to overthrow Nicolás Maduro could be disastrous for the region and ultimately harm the U.S.
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Oct 25, 2025
Innovation comes from a less centralized tech sector.
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Oct 25, 2025
From Venezuela to the East Wing of the White House.
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Oct 25, 2025
The arguments against it illustrate a consistent problem with progressive stewardship of American cities.
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Oct 25, 2025
A new system next season will help perfect decisions around balls and strikes. But baseball's charm has always been tied to its imperfections.
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Oct 25, 2025
What happens when the state doesn't curb predatory private powers?
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Oct 25, 2025
Demolition Man builds a monument to his wrecking-ball style.
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Oct 25, 2025
History suggests that an effort to overthrow Nicolás Maduro could be disastrous for the region and ultimately harm the U.S.
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Oct 25, 2025
As of Oct. 24, the White House's East Wing is all but a pile of debris. The New York Times Opinion's editor Kathleen Kingsbury unpacks the public outrage and reveals why you should be concerned about this move by President Trump.
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Oct 25, 2025
Three measures on the ballot would revise cumbersome approval procedures.
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Oct 25, 2025
Innovation comes from a less centralized tech sector.
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Oct 25, 2025
Reporting on pregnancy didn't stop me from experiencing its joy.
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Oct 25, 2025
The inordinate gilded privilege of being a member of the royal family takes anything but the strongest character and ruins all the good in it.
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Oct 24, 2025
Readers respond to an essay about whether we can break the present cycle of heated and sometimes violent disagreement.
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Oct 24, 2025
Jared Abbott, the director of the Center for Working-Class Politics, discusses what it would take for Democrats to better appeal to working-class voters.
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Oct 24, 2025
The East Wing was where Eleanor Roosevelt walked. It was where Jacqueline Kennedy planned the Rose Garden. Now it's all but gone.
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Oct 24, 2025
A new system next season will help perfect decisions around balls and strikes. But baseball's charm has always been tied to its imperfections.
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Oct 24, 2025
Trump has bared the corruption at the heart of crypto and the libertarian ideas behind it.
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Oct 24, 2025
What happens when the state doesn't curb predatory private powers?
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Oct 24, 2025
Dangerous close calls are rising, but the U.S. and China still lack the communication channels needed to stop a crisis from becoming a war.
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Oct 23, 2025
Yes, Trump is assaulting democracy, but what worries me more is what has happened to the rest of us — the loss of the convictions and norms that undergird democracy.
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Oct 23, 2025
For the first time in his second term, President Trump is imposing new sanctions, but they may not shift the course of Russia's war in Ukraine.
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Oct 23, 2025
Will the Trump administration offer a financial bailout if the A.I. bubble bursts? Jason Furman, a contributing Opinion writer and an economist at the Harvard Kennedy School, explains what President Trump's investments tell us about his priorities in the event of a crash.
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Oct 23, 2025
Are we living through an A.I. bubble? Or is it all just vibes? Jason Furman, a contributing Opinion writer and an economist at the Harvard Kennedy School, tells Ross Douthat that while it's hard to put a number on it, "there's something enormous going on here."
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Oct 23, 2025
‘A House of Dynamite' presents a terrifying glimpse of the modern nuclear risk.
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Oct 23, 2025
OpenAI is worth more than Goldman Sachs. Here's what that means for the economy.
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Oct 23, 2025
Why has the genius of these Black innovators been consigned to academic conferences?
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Oct 23, 2025
Readers respond to the demolition of the East Wing of the White House. Also: Fending off tyranny; when Black women are fired.
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Oct 23, 2025
There's something in the air: a pro-heist frisson.
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Oct 23, 2025
What's the smart move for Democrats in this political moment? On "The Opinions," the columnist David Brooks says he thinks the party should channel Michelle Obama and "go high."
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Oct 23, 2025
The Opinion columnist David Brooks, a center-right thinker, feels as if there's room for him in the "No Kings" movement. "It's pro-American. It's basically in line with the cultural DNA of this country, and so I'm very impressed by it," he says. And yet, he argues, the movement is still missing something essential.
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Oct 23, 2025
New York has urgent housing needs. Mamdani is leading the race for mayor because of his awareness of this. But all the candidates should have bigger plans.
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Oct 23, 2025
Democrats used to be known as the party of the poor and the working class. Two decades of federal income data show how that changed.
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Oct 23, 2025
Hey, boomers! Younger Americans would like a word. We've noticed that many of you are pretty upset about the state of the nation. And we get it. We really do. But do you ever stop and ask yourselves how we got here?
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Oct 23, 2025
The new right pines for a story that would vindicate its reactionary rage.
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Oct 23, 2025
The Kathryn Bigelow film presents a terrifying glimpse of the modern nuclear risk.
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Oct 23, 2025
Mamdani might be working in Democrats' favor. But what about "No Kings"?
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Oct 23, 2025
We've been here before.
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Oct 23, 2025
Our government is once again committing human rights abuses on the ostensible authority of a legal opinion that is being kept secret from the public.
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Oct 23, 2025
We have a chance to discover the true cost of this war.
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Oct 22, 2025
As children die for want of cheap medicines, the U.S. spends billions on Argentina — thus rescuing rich investors who made bad bets.
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Oct 22, 2025
Massive cuts to health, education and immigration are disproportionately taking a toll.
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Oct 22, 2025
The adventurism and impunity of the Cold War live on in the modern military.
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Oct 22, 2025
Trump should pay a political price for his brazen corruption. Instead, he is telling American taxpayers to pay a price, directly to him.
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Oct 22, 2025
Readers respond to the makeover of the East Wing of the White House. Also: President Trump's demand for compensation from the Justice Department.
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Oct 22, 2025
President Trump's deployment of the National Guard from red states into blue cities isn't just a partisan attack; it's also a geographic one.
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Oct 22, 2025
Who's the patriot now?
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Oct 22, 2025
Massive cuts to health, education and immigration are disproportionately taking a toll.
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Oct 22, 2025
Why Mikie Sherrill's chances in New Jersey are much better than you might be hearing.
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Oct 22, 2025
Share your story and we'll get you some advice for how to ease the tension.
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Oct 22, 2025
Who's the patriot now?
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Oct 22, 2025
Term limits would help bring our divided nation together.
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Oct 22, 2025
Small colleges secure the fraying social fabric that holds towns together.
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Oct 22, 2025
Without a plan for what comes next, the United States is not only hastening its own decline but also forcing the world into a new era of disorder.
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Oct 22, 2025
Without a plan for what comes next, the United States is not only hastening its own decline but also forcing the world into a new era of disorder.
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Oct 21, 2025
Coarseness and conservative impulses in "The Life of a Showgirl."
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Oct 21, 2025
A candidate who stands out for his monomania, double standards and affinity for extremists.
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Oct 21, 2025
Races in New Jersey and Virginia are testing the power of the moderate lane.
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Oct 21, 2025
The political scientist Suzanne Mettler examines the roots of America's urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back rural voters.
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Oct 21, 2025
The United States isn't exceptional because of our common culture; it's exceptional because Americans have been able to cohere despite cultures that set us apart.
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Oct 21, 2025
Readers respond to a guest essay by Danielle Sassoon about her experience at N.Y.U. Also: A crackdown on science; a plea to the former presidents.
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Oct 21, 2025
Races in New Jersey and Virginia are testing the power of the moderate lane.
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Oct 21, 2025
False humor is simply a technique to neutralize the unpalatable.
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Oct 21, 2025
The political scientist Suzanne Mettler examines the roots of America's urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back rural voters.
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Oct 21, 2025
Tariffs don't seem to be working as planned.
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Oct 21, 2025
The United States isn't exceptional because of our common culture; it's exceptional because Americans have been able to cohere despite cultures that set us apart.
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Oct 20, 2025
A perverse delight in degradation has always coursed through MAGA circles.
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Oct 20, 2025
A perverse delight in degradation has always coursed through MAGA circles.
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Oct 20, 2025
More than any other presidential actions, clemencies tell us who presidents are.
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Oct 20, 2025
While what is happening to us is as serious as a guillotine, we must harness our best humorous selves in order to keep it from falling.
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Oct 20, 2025
Participants reflect on the "No Kings" demonstrations across the country.
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Oct 20, 2025
Since the first election of President Trump, Hollywood has fretted about portraying rural and red state Americans. Some new TV series show how to get it right.
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Oct 20, 2025
Lessons from a Democrat who won in a Republican state.
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Oct 20, 2025
While what is happening to us is as serious as a guillotine, we must harness our best humorous selves in order to keep it from falling.
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Oct 20, 2025
Telling stories is how we make sense of life and what it means to be human.
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Oct 20, 2025
Spanish has become a sanctioned indicator of potential criminality in the United States of America.
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Oct 20, 2025
Senator Ruben Gallego says Democrats must strategize more shrewdly. President Trump's base has "already set up the field to fight in," he says. "They have all the information and we're just playing catch-up.
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Oct 20, 2025
"The troquita - the truck - it's symbolic," Senator Ruben Gallego tells David Leonhardt on "The Opinions." "It really is a status symbol that you have succeeded in this country."
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