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The Paramount Deal Is in Trouble. It’s Not About the Movies.

The Paramount Deal Is in Trouble. It’s Not About the Movies.

It’s a thorn in the side of David Ellison’s paused dream.

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Sharon Waxman

Trump’s Chaos Is a Job Killer

Trump’s Chaos Is a Job Killer

The administration’s capriciousness and the long tail of federal funding cuts.

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Jessica Grose

Is More Data About Your Body Actually Good for You?

Is More Data About Your Body Actually Good for You?

The Silicon Valley health trend making doctors nervous.

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Jillian Weinberger

Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society

Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

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Jamelle Bouie

I Hope This Column Ages Poorly

I Hope This Column Ages Poorly

You may as well say that history ages poorly, too, or demand warning signs outside museums.

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Carlos Lozada

The Hidden Cost of China’s Free A.I.

Whoever supplies the world’s A.I. will shape how the world thinks.

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Tal Feldman

112 Degrees in Paris, Flames Near Bordeaux. France Can’t Go On Like This.

The frightening heat and wildfires this summer should be an impetus to those in charge to reckon with how quickly the risks are changing.

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Madeleine Schwartz

An Alaskan Pilot. A Six-Pack of Beer. An Important Supreme Court Precedent.

An upcoming case will determine whether the Supreme Court treats an ordinary person with the same care it has long shown corporations.

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James J. Sample

Jewish Terrorism Is Also a Threat to Zionism

A blunt warning for Israel.

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Bret Stephens

Congress Stepped Up on Housing. Now It’s Trump’s Turn.

Congress Stepped Up on Housing. Now It’s Trump’s Turn.

What happens when a good law meets a seemingly indifferent administration?

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Jim Parrott

Who Does JD Vance Think He Is?

Who Does JD Vance Think He Is?

The chameleon effect is endangering the vice president’s political prospects.

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Thomas B. Edsall

The Democratic Party Needs Change

The Democratic Party Needs Change

Ben Wikler, a former state party chair, thinks the Democratic Party needs to reinvent itself.

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Rollin Hu

Mamdani’s Netanyahu Stunt Was a Waste of His Talent and Our Time

Mamdani’s Netanyahu Stunt Was a Waste of His Talent and Our Time

What if Mamdani actually wanted to be a bridge builder between Israelis and Palestinians, a role for which he has the unique capacity and talent?

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Thomas L. Friedman

Conquest Cannot Be Cost Free

Justice may proceed slowly, and cautiously, but it does proceed.

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Mark Ellis

‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’

Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?

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Chrystia Freeland

A Setback for the MAGA Media Takeover

Trump is beatable if you take a page from his playbook and flood the zone with opposition.

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Michelle Goldberg

Immigration Detention Has a Transparency Problem. Private Companies Will Make It Worse.

Immigration Detention Has a Transparency Problem. Private Companies Will Make It Worse.

The Trump administration has a housing problem.

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Lauren-Brooke Eisen

If You’re Over 40, You’re Ready to Use A.I.

If You’re Over 40, You’re Ready to Use A.I.

A.I. should work like this mystical Jewish practice.

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Debbie Millman

The U.S. Is Still Winning the A.I. Race. Trump Could Blow It.

The U.S. Is Still Winning the A.I. Race. Trump Could Blow It.

America has produced its own kind of Sputnik. We should not squander it.

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The Editorial Board

We Can’t Even Agree on Where to Buy Cereal

We Can’t Even Agree on Where to Buy Cereal

Our grocery stores mirror the mess of America.

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Frank Bruni

This Is the Way Out of Our Ultraprocessed Dystopia

This Is the Way Out of Our Ultraprocessed Dystopia

A teenager’s lawsuit against the food industry shows us the path to a better food system.

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Julia Belluz

What’s the Worst Thing Trump Can Do in the Midterms?

What’s the Worst Thing Trump Can Do in the Midterms?

President Trump could accomplish on Jan. 3, 2027, what he failed to do on Jan. 6. 2021.

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Jeffrey Toobin

A New Security Order Is Taking Shape in Asia

Asian countries are starting to shoulder more of the burden of their own defense, and the region could be stronger and more stable for it.

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Jennifer Kavanagh

‘The Odyssey’ Gives Us the Hero We Deserve

‘The Odyssey’ Gives Us the Hero We Deserve

Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus is a halfway hero: he wrestles with the problems he creates. That makes him a perfect figure for our modern moment.

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B.d. McClay

Obsessing About Our Mental Health Is Part of Our Mental Health Problem

Obsessing About Our Mental Health Is Part of Our Mental Health Problem

We need to support psychological well-being without fixating on it.

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Clay Routledge

Why Odysseus Turned on the Trojan Horse

Why Odysseus Turned on the Trojan Horse

This “Odyssey” takes us somewhere we didn’t know we were going.

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David French

Are You a Jerk or a Sucker?

Are You a Jerk or a Sucker?

Do only creeps or chumps still believe in the American dream?

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Robin Givhan

Ukraine Is Fighting for Freedom. Freedom Is for Everyone.

The legal gap for gay Ukrainians has always been unbearable. Then the war with Russia seemed to make the disparity untenable. But the gap remains.

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Alex Averbuch

When Girls Get to Be Boy Scouts

When Girls Get to Be Boy Scouts

What I know from six years of leading Troop 163 is that these girls invigorate scouting rather than weaken it.

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Paola Chapdelaine

The Flawed Case Against Data Centers

The Flawed Case Against Data Centers

Our animosity toward data centers is really more about our anxieties about A.I.

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Adam Mastroianni

The Coming Peptide Free-for-All

The Coming Peptide Free-for-All

Welcome to the new Wild West of peptides.

25.07.2026 9

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Julia Belluz

The New Tactic Trump Thinks Will Rally Voters

The New Tactic Trump Thinks Will Rally Voters

Three Opinion writers discuss whether the president’s Red Scare strategy will work.

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Vishakha Darbha

Why Vance Still Trumps Rubio

Why Vance Still Trumps Rubio

There’s no evidence that the president regards his vice president more skeptically because of his initial opposition to the war.

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Ross Douthat

Nolan’s Zero-Eros ‘Odyssey’

Nolan’s Zero-Eros ‘Odyssey’

Homer’s Odysseus was hardly a man of remorse and shame.

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Maureen Dowd

Trump’s War Was ‘Perfect’ Until It Wasn’t

Trump’s War Was ‘Perfect’ Until It Wasn’t

Worst of all, the result may be that both Iran and Saudi Arabia end up with nuclear weapons.

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Nicholas Kristof

Help! I Might Be a Tradwife!

Help! I Might Be a Tradwife!

I’m not the target audience for online content about frontier chores and child-rearing. But if I’m honest, domestic rituals help to keep me sane.

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Joanna Novak

Please Don’t Thank Us for the Land

Please Don’t Thank Us for the Land

Conservatives who critique land acknowledgments aren’t acting in good faith, but they do have a point.

24.07.2026 10

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Reid Walker

Platner’s Top Campaign Strategist on What Went Wrong

Platner’s Top Campaign Strategist on What Went Wrong

Morris Katz helped Zohran Mamdani win, and then tried to do the same for Graham Platner. What has he learned?

24.07.2026 10

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Marie Cascione

No Wonder Elon Musk Hates ‘The Odyssey’

No Wonder Elon Musk Hates ‘The Odyssey’

A.I. has rendered eye candy cheap. Viewers long for the visceral.

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Michelle Goldberg

Maybe the Biggest Problem With A.I. Is People

Maybe the Biggest Problem With A.I. Is People

Learning to use A.I. effectively at work is all about using the same tried-and-true skills we use to be a better manager and collaborator.

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Keith Ferrazzi

Our Vast Collective Jeffrey Epstein Failure

Our Vast Collective Jeffrey Epstein Failure

We need to hold accountable the web of accomplices who enabled his crimes.

24.07.2026 10

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Rachel Louise Snyder

China’s A.I. Has a Winning Formula. America, Don’t Panic.

China’s A.I. Has a Winning Formula. America, Don’t Panic.

Open-weight models have been the underlying strength of Chinese artificial intelligence strategy. America should take cues.

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Jason Hsu

We Live With the Violent Mayhem Carlos the Jackal Unleashed

We Live With the Violent Mayhem Carlos the Jackal Unleashed

The type of terrorism that was his signature brand is having a remarkable resurgence, and Americans are nowhere near prepared to deal with it.

23.07.2026 7

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Joby Warrick

Trump’s New Tariffs: Just as Bad as the Old Tariffs

Trump’s New Tariffs: Just as Bad as the Old Tariffs

The administration will keep trying to run around rulings against import fees.

23.07.2026 8

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Natasha Sarin

Iran, China, Canada? A Defense of Trump’s Grand Strategy

Iran, China, Canada? A Defense of Trump’s Grand Strategy

A Pentagon official argues that “people can no longer take the United States for granted.”

23.07.2026 10

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Sophia Alvarez Boyd

This Is What’s Keeping Me Up at Night

This Is What’s Keeping Me Up at Night

Stop the steal before it starts.

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David French

Gen Z Has Lost Its Ambition. Maybe It’s Found Something Better.

Gen Z Has Lost Its Ambition. Maybe It’s Found Something Better.

For Gen Z college graduates, the way millennials lived out their ambitions no longer makes sense.

23.07.2026 10

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Emi Nietfeld

How Can Anyone Trust This Crew With Anything?

How Can Anyone Trust This Crew With Anything?

JD Vance isn’t going to save us. Neither is Pete Hegseth.

23.07.2026 20

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Bret Stephens

Haiti Is a War Zone. Why Are We Banishing Our Neighbors There?

Deporting Haitian migrants will further destabilize a country in crisis.

22.07.2026 7

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Russel L. Honoré

‘The Five-Star Weekend’ Makes Middle Age Look Magical

‘The Five-Star Weekend’ Makes Middle Age Look Magical

Lately, the media loves to humiliate women in their 40s and 50s; this show reveres them.

22.07.2026 10

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Jessica Grose