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Jan 06, 2026
Trump's increasing belligerence abroad should raise alarm about more than the fate of Venezuela.
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Jan 06, 2026
"The United States has a problem with elite impunity," says the Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie, as he looks back on the five years since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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Jan 06, 2026
But taking Venezuela's oil while leaving the regime in place weren't among them.
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Jan 06, 2026
There is no simple procedural mechanism for lawyers, or the public, to challenge the fitness of judges.
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Jan 06, 2026
Readers respond to an essay by Representative Jamie Raskin and to an editorial. Also: Risky changes in vaccine policy; a new Kennedy Center.
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Jan 06, 2026
The president is deploying his domineering tactics in unexpected places.
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Jan 06, 2026
As states disregard limits on the lawful use of force, this may be just the beginning of a slide into frequent war.
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Jan 06, 2026
Trump's increasing belligerence abroad should raise alarm about more than the fate of Venezuela.
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Jan 06, 2026
As states disregard limits on the lawful use of force, this may be just the beginning of a slide into frequent war.
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Jan 06, 2026
Jan. 6 is a symptom. Elite impunity is the cause.
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Jan 06, 2026
The president is deploying his domineering tactics in unexpected places.
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Jan 06, 2026
The journalist Jonathan Blitzer explains the various interests and factions at play in the Trump administration's strike against Venezuela.
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Jan 06, 2026
Five years after Jan. 6, 2021, we are still caught up in a struggle over the meaning of that day.
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Jan 05, 2026
We turn to art to make sense of a life that is heartbreakingly fragile.
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Jan 05, 2026
President Trump made a bold decision, and it was a stunning success.
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Jan 05, 2026
David French and M. Gessen on why the ends do not justify the means in Venezuela.
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Jan 05, 2026
To understand what's unfolding in Venezuela, you have to look to the mob, not traditional foreign policy doctrines.
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Jan 05, 2026
To understand what's unfolding in Venezuela, you have to look to the mob, not traditional foreign policy doctrines.
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Jan 05, 2026
The high cost of forgetting what world war is really like.
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Jan 05, 2026
Producers seem uninterested and consumers might not notice
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Jan 05, 2026
Readers worry about the repercussions and a resurfacing of "America's imperialist past."
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Jan 05, 2026
The high cost of forgetting what world war is really like.
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Jan 05, 2026
Abandoning restraint, the president is growing reckless.
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Jan 05, 2026
We turn to art to make sense of a life that is heartbreakingly fragile.
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Jan 05, 2026
One year later, we haven't really begun to reckon with the real meaning of the Los Angeles fires.
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Jan 05, 2026
Americans want affordability. Here's how politicians can deliver.
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Jan 05, 2026
Naïve faith and wholesale pessimism are not your only options.
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Jan 05, 2026
We need stories that capture how we live — in the touch, the embrace, the everyday if boring intimacies that were never meant to be translated.
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Jan 04, 2026
Allies? Who needs allies?
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Jan 04, 2026
Many are celebrating the ouster of a brutal dictator, but the Maduro regime may survive the loss of Maduro.
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Jan 04, 2026
Readers weigh in on the military raid, the seizing of President Nicolás Maduro and what comes next.
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Jan 04, 2026
Trump's true intentions finally come clear after talk of fighting drugs and instability.
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Jan 04, 2026
We are all in a constant state of grief, even though we don't always admit it.
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Jan 04, 2026
That's not a criticism of Brady. It's a criticism of how greatness is considered.
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Jan 04, 2026
On a vacation abroad, my family started dancing in public. We haven't stopped.
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Jan 04, 2026
We have long faced a brutal paradox: an absent yet omnipotent state.
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Jan 03, 2026
Retiring from opera has its own set of challenges, but there is plenty I share with the other millions of Americans ending careers.
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Jan 03, 2026
"This is a plainly illegal war, a plainly illegal action, one that violates international law, one that is plainly unconstitutional, even anti-constitutional," says the Times columnist Jamelle Bouie about the U.S. attack on Venezuela.
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Jan 03, 2026
His administration just decapitated the country's leadership; he's now responsible for what comes next there.
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Jan 03, 2026
"If you're feeling contradictory about all of this, you're not alone," says Times columnist Nicholas Kristof about the U.S.'s attack on Venezuela. President Nicolás Maduro "was a disaster for Venezuela and for the entire region," says Kristof. But at the same time, "its much easier to topple a dictator than to institute a democratic populist government in its place."
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Jan 03, 2026
Alzheimer's stole my mother's words. She spoke poetry instead.
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Jan 03, 2026
People's ability to make new friends reflects the strength of the "friendship market" they are in.
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Jan 03, 2026
We know that Mr. Trump's warmongering violates the law.
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Jan 03, 2026
With Trump's health care cuts, I traveled to Ohio, Mississippi and Alabama — and encountered devastated families bracing for even more difficult challenges.
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Jan 03, 2026
We need stories that capture how we live — in the touch, the embrace, the everyday if boring intimacies that were never meant to be translated.
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Jan 03, 2026
I often wonder if I tried hard enough to understand my mother as she lost her memory.
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Jan 03, 2026
People's ability to make new friends reflects the strength of the "friendship market" they are in.
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Jan 03, 2026
Retiring from opera has its own set of challenges, but there is plenty I share with the other millions of Americans ending careers.
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Jan 02, 2026
Readers share their hopes and anxieties as New York's new mayor takes office. Also: Unsubscribing from the Kennedy Center; protesting Trump.
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Jan 02, 2026
Readings that the podcast's guests say shaped their thinking.
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Jan 02, 2026
Tell us how you're managing increases to your health care insurance costs.
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Jan 02, 2026
If anyone should be prepared to know how to handle my dad's ashes, it's me.
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Jan 02, 2026
The mayor's résumé looks like the broad coalition he built when he swept to victory in November.
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Jan 02, 2026
America is becoming more loveless: less dating, less marriage, less friendship, less patriotism. But love outside of self is what makes life meaningful.
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Jan 02, 2026
Drawing on a Buddhist meditation, the writer Stephen Batchelor asks: What is this?
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Jan 02, 2026
The unseen workers who help train A.I.
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Jan 02, 2026
The unseen workers who help train self-driving cars to see.
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Jan 02, 2026
The unseen workers who help train self-driving cars to see.
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Jan 01, 2026
Ukraine's president should stop pressing for U.S. security guarantees and pursue more effective means of self-protection.
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Jan 01, 2026
Readers challenge a Republican politician's views on prejudice and intolerance in the conservative movement. Also: The harm caused by organ transplant tourism.
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Jan 01, 2026
How did we get here? I don't want to know.
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Jan 01, 2026
The new year will pose numerous problems that won't be so easily overcome.
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Jan 01, 2026
Hope is a virtue to be practiced, not an aspiration to be managed.
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Jan 01, 2026
Testosterone neither ensures dominance nor acts as a straightforward trigger for aggression.
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Jan 01, 2026
Ukraine's president should stop pressing for U.S. security guarantees and pursue more effective means of self-protection.
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Jan 01, 2026
The new mayor is an entirely familiar type of New York politician.
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Dec 31, 2025
Readers reflect on her life and the tragedies that have befallen the Kennedy family. Also: Protecting Planned Parenthood.
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Dec 31, 2025
The next three years will require a vigilant defense of free speech and open debate.
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Dec 31, 2025
The next three years will require a vigilant defense of free speech and open debate.
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Dec 31, 2025
If Netflix acquires HBO, it will have won the streaming wars. But that's not what will determine if TV shows get better, or worse.
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Dec 31, 2025
Tragically, America is still living in a political era that began on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Dec 31, 2025
A second Gilded Age, a single solution.
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Dec 31, 2025
How much more chaotic could a second Trump term be? 2025 did not disappoint.
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Dec 31, 2025
A tale of two cities, told through its pubs.
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Dec 30, 2025
The president feels no guilt and has no qualms.
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Dec 30, 2025
Readers find a classroom trend of assigning shorter texts "troubling." Also: Reaction to President Trump's naming of a special envoy to Greenland.
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Dec 30, 2025
He failed not only himself but also other Black politicians.
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Dec 30, 2025
How, and why, does the president get away with it?
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Dec 30, 2025
America could all but lose vaccine access. Here's how.
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Dec 30, 2025
It's Sweden's longest criminal trial. I was there because of a different historic distinction.
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Dec 30, 2025
Our year-end food web describing who and what devoured who and what.
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Dec 29, 2025
The technology Is ruining much of what makes life worth living.
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Dec 29, 2025
In Brigitte Bardot's death I see the passing of a generation: the Frenchwomen who tried to find a path to autonomy in the 1950s and '60s.
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Dec 29, 2025
Readers react to Mitt Romney's call to raise taxes on the wealthy. Also: the moral bankruptcy revealed by the Epstein files.
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Dec 29, 2025
So much in public health has changed.
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Dec 29, 2025
How a piece of kitchen equipment watched me grow up.
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Dec 29, 2025
Savor the words that made sense of our world.
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Dec 29, 2025
Amid an astonishing wave of anti-Indian animus, Indian Americans are questioning their place in the country.
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Dec 29, 2025
Wasn't this supposed to be the golden era of free expression on college campuses?
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Dec 29, 2025
People don't like to think about their own mortality, but therapists owe it to their patients to make plans.
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Dec 29, 2025
We should know better.
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Dec 28, 2025
A Q & A with N.T. Wright about why Jesus entered into human history.
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Dec 28, 2025
Readers fault Democrats for stalling a report on their 2024 failures. Also: A lawyer's faith in freedom; a rabbi responds to JD Vance's claim of a Christian nation.
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Dec 28, 2025
So much in public health has changed.
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Dec 28, 2025
Rather than try to resist temptation in the moment, many successful people arrange their lives to minimize the need for willpower in the first place.
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Dec 28, 2025
Consider that every book you have is a story of who you are.
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Dec 28, 2025
I was now facing the same reality my working-class neighbors knew well: the world had changed, my work had all but disappeared, and still, the bills wouldn't stop coming.
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Dec 28, 2025
As the year drew to a close, we reached out to Opinion columnists and contributors for personal lists.
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Dec 27, 2025
As the year drew to a close, we reached out to Opinion columnists and contributors for personal lists.
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Dec 27, 2025
A guest essay offered several possible explanations. Young and older readers offer their own.
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