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Don’t Blame College Students for Feeling Adrift. I’m Right There With Them.

Don’t Blame College Students for Feeling Adrift. I’m Right There With Them.

We’re supposed to give students a map. I don’t even know the terrain.

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Frank Bruni

What’s the Point of Sending People Into Space? An Astronaut, Scientist and Journalist Debate.

What’s the Point of Sending People Into Space? An Astronaut, Scientist and Journalist Debate.

Should we just send robots?

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Stephen Stromberg

San Francisco Sobers Up

San Francisco Sobers Up

San Francisco gets its act together.

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German Lopez

Enough With the Nepo Candidates, Democrats

Enough With the Nepo Candidates, Democrats

Democrats smother their best message — change — when they try to reserve public offices for relatives and cronies.

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Michelle Cottle

The War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World Power

The War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World Power

Its newfound might derives from its control the Strait of Hormuz.

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Robert A. Pape

Iran Is Ending the Dream of Remote-Controlled War

Iran Is Ending the Dream of Remote-Controlled War

A.I.’s significant targeting improvements aren’t enough to overcome geography in Iran.

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Justin kosslyn

Want to Change? Maybe Stop Trying So Hard.

Want to Change? Maybe Stop Trying So Hard.

The self-transformation industry sells control. Real change is messier.

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Benoit denizet-lewis

Always Be Posting: The New Rules for Democratic Candidates

Always Be Posting: The New Rules for Democratic Candidates

Is this a great way to audition and select our leaders, especially for executive offices? Not particularly.

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David Plouffe

A Smoldering Wick in the Darkness

A Smoldering Wick in the Darkness

The light that changed my life.

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David French

Women Need Treatment for Hot Flashes. Why Is This So Hard?

Women Need Treatment for Hot Flashes. Why Is This So Hard?

Hormone patches are in scarce supply because of increased demand — that’s mostly a good thing.

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Gillian goddard

Resurrection Is Everywhere

Resurrection Is Everywhere

Marriages, careers, reputations, financial stability and dreams can all die. But that’s not the end of the story.

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P.g. sittenfeld

‘Cats’ Were Always Meant to Vogue

‘Cats’ Were Always Meant to Vogue

I was onstage for the first Broadway version of ‘Cats.’ A new reimagining showed me something about the show I never expected.

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Betty buckley

Trump Needs Smarter Sycophants

Trump Needs Smarter Sycophants

Loyal losers don’t go very far with this president.

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Ross Douthat

Why This Tax Day Is Even Harder and More Annoying Than Usual

Why This Tax Day Is Even Harder and More Annoying Than Usual

Tax preparation companies and Republicans are pursuing their shared interest in torturing taxpayers

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Binyamin Appelbaum

Trump May Be Turning Iran Into Another North Korea

Trump May Be Turning Iran Into Another North Korea

As one expert puts it, this war is “an operational success but a huge strategic failure.”

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Nicholas Kristof

All the President’s Wars — at Home and Abroad

All the President’s Wars — at Home and Abroad

From Tehran to the Supreme Court, a look at Trump’s relentless battles.

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Derek Arthur

Pam and Kristi, Kicked to the Curb

Pam and Kristi, Kicked to the Curb

Trump girls gone wild — or just gone.

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Maureen Dowd

Finish the Job: How Trump Can Still Win in Iran

Finish the Job: How Trump Can Still Win in Iran

Our strength and leverage over events in Iran are growing, not diminishing.

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John R. Bolton

Is Iran Winning?

Is Iran Winning?

The Iran expert Suzanne Maloney explains why Iran believes it has the upper hand.

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Rollin Hu

Trump Has Lost Control of Events in Iran

Trump Has Lost Control of Events in Iran

The pain inflicted on Iran has not forced it into submission. It is not clear what will.

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Ali Vaez

What Trump Is Doing to the English Language

What Trump Is Doing to the English Language

There is a morality to verbs, especially in political speech.

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Sarah l. kaufman

Is It Legal to Bully the Supreme Court?

Is It Legal to Bully the Supreme Court?

It may be a new world, but “it’s the same Constitution.”

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David French

Why Does Gavin Newsom Sound Like a Right-Wing Troll?

Why Does Gavin Newsom Sound Like a Right-Wing Troll?

He seems to have concluded that progressive models of manliness are passé.

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Matthew Schmitz

The Epstein Emails Show #MeToo Never Stood a Chance

The Epstein Emails Show #MeToo Never Stood a Chance

The files reveal the mechanics of doubt that the #MeToo movement had to contend with.

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Claire wilmot

How Giorgia Meloni Fell to Earth

How Giorgia Meloni Fell to Earth

For more than three years, Giorgia Meloni’s leadership of Italy has seemed unshakable. Now she suddenly seems vulnerable.

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Anna Momigliano

Eloquence Has Grown Passé. Let’s Bring It Back Into Fashion.

Being authentic or relatable shouldn’t mean being inarticulate.

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John Mcwhorter

No Plan. No Allies. No End in Sight.

No Plan. No Allies. No End in Sight.

The president failed to provide any meaningful strategy on the two central issues that define the war on Iran: reopening the Strait of Hormuz and what...

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W.j. Hennigan

Trump Has No Idea How to Clean Up His Own Mess

Trump Has No Idea How to Clean Up His Own Mess

His speech told us very little, at least explicitly, but revealed quite a lot.

02.04.2026 5

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Michelle Goldberg

The Singular Failure of Pam Bondi

The Singular Failure of Pam Bondi

The core of Mr. Trump’s dissatisfaction with the attorney general was apparently her failure to serve his need for revenge against his enemies.

02.04.2026 1

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Jeffrey Toobin

Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? A Debate.

Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? A Debate.

A ‘Christian Atheist’ joins Ross Douthat.

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Emily Holzknecht

It’s a Rare Bipartisan Goal. It’s a Terrible Idea.

It’s a Rare Bipartisan Goal. It’s a Terrible Idea.

What’s really behind all these attempts to revive American industry?

02.04.2026 3

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Jason Furman

To Keep Child Abuse Off the Internet, He Has to Watch It

To Keep Child Abuse Off the Internet, He Has to Watch It

Removing child sexual abuse material from the internet exacts a heavy toll on the workers tasked with reviewing it.

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Jefta varwijk

What Do You Do When a Family Member Commits a Terrible Crime?

What Do You Do When a Family Member Commits a Terrible Crime?

The columnist M. Gessen sits down with the writer Harriet Clark to talk through the complexity of maintaining relationships with family members who...

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Jillian Weinberger

Tastelessness and Classlessness Are the Least of Our Concerns

Tastelessness and Classlessness Are the Least of Our Concerns

Tastelessness and classlessness are the least of our concerns.

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Bret Stephens

The Only Thing Trump Is Missing in Cuba Is a Plan

The Only Thing Trump Is Missing in Cuba Is a Plan

Starving Cubans does nothing to advance American interests.

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Ricardo zúniga

Trump Will Lose the Birthright Citizenship Case. But in a Way, He’s Already Won.

The case is open-and-shut on the merits. But its procedural course still leaves plenty of room for Trump administration overreach.

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Stephen I. Vladeck

Remember the Oil Shocks of the ’70s? This Is Going to Be Worse. Much Worse.

Remember the Oil Shocks of the ’70s? This Is Going to Be Worse. Much Worse.

Higher oil prices and limited supply will accelerate a turn toward cleaner technologies, especially in Asia and Europe.

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Jonathan Mingle

All the Worst People Seem to Want to Be ‘High Agency’

All the Worst People Seem to Want to Be ‘High Agency’

The term “high agency” is an ethos for a gambler’s time.

01.04.2026 5

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Sophie Haigney

The War That Is Way ‘Ahead of Schedule’

The War That Is Way ‘Ahead of Schedule’

In Iran, the schedule is our most malleable illusion.

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Carlos Lozada

The Birthright Con

The Birthright Con

Trump wants to find out just how weak this Supreme Court is.

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Jamelle Bouie

Hoosiers Hate Cheaters, and Other Reasons a Trump Revenge Campaign Might Fail

Hoosiers Hate Cheaters, and Other Reasons a Trump Revenge Campaign Might Fail

In the Indiana primaries, a crucial test of the MAGA loyalty machine.

01.04.2026 6

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Michelle Cottle

Our Troops Deserve More Than This

Our Troops Deserve More Than This

We owe it to American service members and their families to be truthful about the risks involved and why we are at war.

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Leon E. Panetta

Padma Lakshmi: The Decision That Would Create a Permanent American Underclass

Padma Lakshmi: The Decision That Would Create a Permanent American Underclass

President Trump wants to take away a fundamental American promise.

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Padma Lakshmi

Can Christianity Be Restored to the Center of American Life?

Why none of America’s faiths have taken mainline Protestantism’s place.

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Ross Douthat

Yes, This Is Your War, Too

Yes, This Is Your War, Too

Even opponents of the conflict should want to see Iran defanged and defeated.

31.03.2026 10

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Bret Stephens

Trump Has a Way Out of the War

Trump Has a Way Out of the War

Trump should set aside his 15-point peace plan and reduce it to these two points.

31.03.2026 10

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Thomas L. Friedman

Michael Pollan’s Journey to the Borderlands of Consciousness

Michael Pollan’s Journey to the Borderlands of Consciousness

Pollan, a science writer, spent five years trying to understand how consciousness worked. The more he learned, the weirder things got.

31.03.2026 9

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Kristin Lin

It’s Not Going to Get Any Easier for Democrats After Trump

It’s Not Going to Get Any Easier for Democrats After Trump

The party will come up against a demographic cliff in 2032.

31.03.2026 6

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Thomas B. Edsall

The Greatest Threat to Our Elections Is No Longer Foreign

The Greatest Threat to Our Elections Is No Longer Foreign

This is not how American democracy is supposed to work.

31.03.2026 6

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Mark R. Warner

I Wrote a Cesar Chavez Biography. This Is How His Secrets Stayed Buried.

I Wrote a Cesar Chavez Biography. This Is How His Secrets Stayed Buried.

Reckoning with the United Farm Workers founder means reckoning with his movement.

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Miriam Pawel