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Who Owns the ‘Victorious Youth’?
There is widespread agreement, even in museums, that questionable pieces in collections should be returned. But returned to whom?
By Adam Kuper
There is widespread agreement, even in museums, that questionable pieces in collections should be returned. But returned to whom?
By Adam Kuper
A second Biden term would be unusually dangerous for the country in a very significant way.
By Ross Douthat
With Israel possibly winding down its war in Gaza, we should be paying more attention to the crisis building in the more populous West Bank.
By Nicholas Kristof
Do the Democrats really want to stop Trump? What are they prepared to do?
By Maureen Dowd
Readers discuss a column by Nicholas Kristof.
The president’s inadequate performance in the debate made it clear he is not the man he was four years ago.
By The Editorial Board
None of the options ensure victory against Trump — and some of them could badly split the party.
By Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Goldberg, Patrick Healy and Bret Stephens
Everyone in our system, including judges and members of Congress, will be nudged to do their proper constitutional work.
By Yuval Levin
The vice president is the obvious path out of the mess Joe Biden has created.
By Lydia Polgreen
Schools ground migrant children and their families when everything else — the language, the city, the culture, the people — is brand-new.
By Bliss Broyard and Mateo Arciniegas Huertas
Donald Trump is too grave a threat to America. Democrats need a nominee who can unite the country and articulate a compelling vision for it.
By Thomas L. Friedman
Our kids’ lingo is not only better than any we used; it’s a useful window into the way they think.
By Stephen Marche
Universities that cataloged election lies and disinformation are being targeted with the same tactics they sought to uncover.
By Renée DiResta
The breathless catastrophizing of Trump and his allies is not an expression of ignorance as much as it is a statement of intent.
By Jamelle Bouie
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The participants talk about their frustrations with the two-party system, the appeal of third-party candidates and the issues most important to them in voting for president.
By Adrian J. Rivera, Patrick Healy and Margie Omero
Her political future will be decided in Tuesday’s Republican congressional primary. Is there a limit to MAGA antics?
By Michelle Cottle
It is looking more and more like a project to universalize the un-universalizable.
By Christopher Caldwell
The candidates have no shortage of flaws.
By Ross Douthat
By averting his eyes as his red lines are ignored, Biden is wasting his leverage over Israel.
By Nicholas Kristof
He’s just as intense, but a bit more mellow. Or is he?
By Maureen Dowd
Olympic hopefuls are a group of exceptional people held together by athletic tape and hope, who leap without sight of where they will land.
By Charlotte Drury
Readers discuss a column by David Brooks about “The Sins of the Educated Class.”
The former president is no more prepared for a second term than he was for a first. He may even be less prepared.
By Jamelle Bouie
Democrats should rally around a bill to overhaul the 1873 anti-vice law.
By Michelle Goldberg
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Can populist leaders actually fix the world’s unsolvable problems?
By Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat, Carlos Lozada and Lydia Polgreen
We had a chance to treat sex categories in sports with curiosity and compassion instead of condemnation. We still can.
By Michael Waters
The U.S. bombings that ended World War II didn’t mark the close of atomic warfare. They were just the beginning.
By W.J. Hennigan
Here’s who needs to worry right now.
By Jennifer B. Nuzzo
Infected with ideological purity, the West Coast is focused more on intentions than on oversight and outcomes.
By Nicholas Kristof
The experience of living with my father’s dementia ranged from tragic to tragicomic to vaudevillian, often within the span of a few minutes.
By Cornelia Channing
The future is uncertain. But it feels less scary surrounded by feathered friends.
By Andy Rementer and George Rementer
After a profound national rupture, forgiveness may be impossible. But the long-overlooked act of oblivion could offer a solution.
By Linda Kinstler
“When you live in the past, the people around you hate you, don’t understand and don’t accept you,” Valentyna Odnoviu wrote.
By Frankie Mills
Hollywood shouldn’t pre-emptively capitulate to the MAGA movement.
By Michelle Goldberg
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In a long conversation, the first-term senator from Ohio talks about Trump, populism, the 2020 election, Ukraine and the Republican V.P. slot.
By Ross Douthat
In calling snap elections, Emmanuel Macron has taken a dangerous gamble.
By Cole Stangler
Even the weak regulatory grasp of capitalist democracy is too strong for, well, capitalists.
By Jamelle Bouie
Never has the country looked less like a leader and more like the head of a faction.
By Stephen Wertheim
Progressives need to stop thinking of family as a conservative hobbyhorse.
By Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman
The Unabomber personified how we use the West as a mirror for the dark, untamed aspects of our national character.
By Maxim Loskutoff
No matter what seemingly hopeless mess you have made, everything can still work out.
By Megan K. Stack
His executive order limiting asylum seekers may be political, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
By Nicholas Kristof
Officials should have told us what they knew, or at least leveled with us about what they didn’t know.
By Zeynep Tufekci
As the country becomes increasingly divided, Brownsville comes together.
By Cecilia Ballí and Thalía Gochez
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Readers discuss a column by Pamela Paul about college protesters’ job prospects and future careers.
In a democracy, how far is too far?
By Jon Grinspan
This is what happens when you say it’s the legal system that’s indefensible.
By Jamelle Bouie
A vitally important public policy was derailed over political concerns.
By Mara Gay
The voters have spoken: They want to keep their democracy.
By Lydia Polgreen
Trump sort of photosynthesizes any and all attention to grow bigger and stronger. What’s Biden to do?
By Frank Bruni, Josh Barro and Olivia Nuzzi
Modern boyhood is an apprenticeship in loneliness.
By Ruth Whippman
It’s corrupt, rotten and hurting America.
By Maureen Dowd
The group discusses the trial, the verdict and its possible influence on the 2024 election.
By Patrick Healy, Adrian J. Rivera and Frank Luntz
The world must not continue to bear the intolerable risks of research with the potential to cause pandemics.
By Alina Chan
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The hotter it gets, the more difficult it is for our bodies to cope.
By Jeff Goodell
This is how judges can remain pillars for the rule of law in America.
By George Grasso
A photographer captured the crowds outside the courthouse during Trump’s trial — and as the historic verdict came down.
By Lucia Buricelli
The country’s story of liberation has been both a symbol of hope and a burden. Now it’s time for reality.
By Lydia Polgreen
But the real verdict comes on 11/5.
By Maureen Dowd
It’s not a black-and-white morality tale.
By Nicholas Kristof
Readers discuss reports of a decline in deaths in the U.S. but a rise in Baltimore.
Times Opinion writers reflect on an extraordinary development in American political history.
By New York Times Opinion
Betting puts pressure on pro athletes. The cracks are starting to show.
By Leigh Steinberg
The stakes for our democracy should be obvious.
By Paul Krugman
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He has spent much of his lifetime and all of his political career preparing for a chapter like this.
By Frank Bruni
The defense failed to focus on the most important things.
By Renato Mariotti
The former president’s conviction in a New York criminal trial revealed, yet again, why he is unfit for office.
By The Editorial Board
Can they really decide for themselves whether they can be impartial?
By Jamie Raskin
These tiny biological powerhouses can help us cure deadly diseases, and tell us how life itself started.
By Thomas Cech
Let’s spare universities from having to decide which world events deserve official statements.
By Noah Feldman and Alison Simmons
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