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David Wallace-Wells

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Why So Much of America Loves Mamdani

The new mayor is having a sunny honeymoon with New Yorkers. Will it last?

11.03.2026 9

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Data Centers Are a Distraction. The Real Fight Is Elsewhere.

We are trying to decide what role A.I. will have in our lives.

04.03.2026 9

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Don’t Look Now, but the Green Transition Is Still Happening

It feels as if our political institutions have abandoned the climate, but the clean energy economy is still growing.

26.02.2026 20

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The MAHA Coalition Is Falling Apart

A political movement cannot survive on spite alone.

19.02.2026 450

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Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics

A California policy proposal would mark a genuinely new era of the politics of extreme wealth in the U.S.

12.02.2026 70

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ICE’s New Surveillance State Isn’t Tracking Only Immigrants

The nationwide nativist dragnet has a long list of targets.

05.02.2026 150

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The Real Reason MAHA Hates Vaccines

Vaccines are a social safety net, too.

29.01.2026 2

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ICE Is Waging War on Blue Cities

Will the agency’s brutality and capriciousness create blowback?

15.01.2026 60

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Trumpism Is Global Culture War

The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy is a pivot to the agenda of online reactionaries.

11.12.2025 40

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When the Next Pandemic Comes, MAHA Says, You’re on Your Own

The N.I.H. director has learned all the wrong lessons from Covid.

27.11.2025 10

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Why Mamdani Won

A triumph in New York City has a lesson for the Democrats

05.11.2025 9

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The Connection Between the Fort Bragg Cartel and the ‘Department of War’

The adventurism and impunity of the Cold War live on in the modern military.

23.10.2025 10

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‘What Can Burn Will Burn’

It seemed that last year’s wildfire in Los Angeles had been extinguished safely after two days. But it had just gone underground.

16.10.2025 10

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‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

Authoritarian creep reaches a new phase.

09.10.2025 10

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Is Kennedy’s War on Vaccination Over?

The health secretary promised a revolution but delivered minor changes. Why?

02.10.2025 8

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China’s Pivot From Green Tech Could Be Bad News for the Climate

China had fueled climate optimism. But now the story seems to be changing.

25.09.2025 10

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Who Is MAHA Even For?

The movement is tearing down America’s health care institutions. To what end?

11.09.2025 10

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America and China Have Placed Their Wagers. Now We Wait.

The two superpowers have made different wagers. But their fates are intertwined.

28.08.2025 20

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We’re Already Living in the Post-A.I. Future

Artificial intelligence may change the world, but it probably won’t remake it.

21.08.2025 9

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A Warning From Across the Atlantic for Both Democrats and Republicans

Labour’s collapse in Britain should scare both parties.

14.08.2025 10

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You Are Contaminated

The toxic byproducts of human civilization are everywhere. Even in our bodies.

04.08.2025 150

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Why Rising Rates of Autism and ADHD Might Be a Good Sign

There might be a kind of optimism in diagnosis creep.

31.07.2025 40

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The Epstein Story Is Both Conspiracy Theory and Genuine Scandal

More than a client list, MAGA is looking for meaning.

17.07.2025 10

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10 Ways of Making Sense of Zohran Mamdani’s Win

New York City’s surprising primary result has ramifications for the whole country.

03.07.2025 50

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The Judgment of History Won’t Save Gaza

The airstrikes on Iran seem to have closed a chapter.

26.06.2025 20

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Kennedy’s Purge Is a ‘Code Red’ for Vaccines in America

The H.H.S. secretary is destroying the public trust.

19.06.2025 9

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Protest Is Underrated

We can’t forget what protests are supposed to do: bring change over time.

15.06.2025 7

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Trump’s Budget Tells Three Unhappy Truths About America

Features of the budget: A supercharged ICE, school vouchers and no relief for a warming planet.

12.06.2025 6

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Our Regression on Gender Is a Tragedy, Not Just a Political Problem

Progress seemed inevitable just a few years ago. Now it is in danger.

05.06.2025 10

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Why Does It Matter Whether Covid Came Out of a Lab?

The shifting consensus says more about our politics than the science of Covid.

22.05.2025 20

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‘Trump Is Not Crazy’: Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Beating the Right

The French radical believes that France has something to teach the world.

08.05.2025 10

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Can We Really Fight Climate Change When We’re Not Scared?

The state of the climate, Part II.

01.05.2025 9

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‘He’s Often Working Backward From a Conclusion’: Three Opinion Writers on Kennedy

A conversation about the health secretary’s first two months.

27.04.2025 10

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We’re All Conspiracy Theorists Now. Why?

We are caught up in a vast web. But the strands are visible.

27.03.2025 7

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The Entire Future of American Public Health Is at Risk

Trump’s appointees don’t believe in the concept of a public in the first place.

20.03.2025 9

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Where Trump Is Giving Liberals a Hand

Being known as an enemy of Trump has become great politics in Canada and Mexico

13.03.2025 6

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How Covid Remade America

It feels as if the pandemic is behind us. But we’re living in the world it made.

04.03.2025 20

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Five Years Ago, We Were Terrified of Covid. We Were Right to Be Afraid.

Five years since a novel virus spread everywhere, its hard to remember what the beginning was like.

27.02.2025 8

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Are We Just Going to Forget About Climate Justice?

A provocative new book asks what we owe one another in a heating world.

20.02.2025 7

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This Isn’t Reform. It’s Sabotage.

Musk and Trump are launching a frontal assault on the concept of democratic governance

06.02.2025 20

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‘Performing for an Audience of One’: Three Opinion Writers on Kennedy’s Confirmation Hearing

Opinion writers discuss issues from vaccines to Medicaid.

30.01.2025 10

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After the L.A. Fires, a New Menace Lingers

Urban firestorms leave behind the detritus of entire neighborhoods in the air.

30.01.2025 10

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Wars and Rumors of Wars

Hollywood’s silence reveals the contours of our escalating conflict with China; we’re digesting the war on TikTok, instead.

24.01.2025 10

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‘Grab, Grab, Grab’: Trump’s First 100 Days

In this first episode of a new series, David Wallace-Wells joins Patrick Healy to examine what President Trump’s position on climate change tells us...

23.01.2025 9

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