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October 16, 2026
Trump’s Attempt to Deport Ilhan Omar Is Another Leap Toward the Abyss
This is more than just another persecution of one of the president’s political enemies.
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October 9, 2026
No One Was Paying Attention to Gina Hinojosa a Month Ago. Now Republicans Are Worried.
The Texas Democrat who says the culture wars are over.
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September 19, 2026
Trump’s Political Instincts ‘Are Clearly Fading’
Three Opinion writers discuss the developing A.I. story and whether Trump is losing touch with reality.
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September 18, 2026
Israel Is Going to War Against a Documentary
It’s hard to tell whether Israelis are enraged by “NAZA” because they think it’s full of lies, or because they know or fear it’s true.
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September 15, 2026
They Could Afford to Stand Up to Trump. Why Didn’t They?
The more the logic of capitalism pervades the rest of life, the less room there is for compassion, honor or heroism.
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September 12, 2026
Why Tech Oligarchs Are Willing to Risk Apocalypse
Silicon Valley’s strange new theology.
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September 4, 2026
What Gloria Steinem Can Teach Us
Steinem has died at the end of a decade that undid some of what she struggled for.
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August 31, 2026
How El-Sayed Could Dispatch His Hasan Piker Problem
Republicans hold their trolls close. For Democrats, it’s more complicated.
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August 21, 2026
Why Do We Keep Imagining a New Civil War?
Art doesn’t predict the future, but it can be an early warning system.
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August 18, 2026
After Jason Arday’s Death, Mistaken Calls for Censorship
Some who once championed Arday seem to be trying to deflect from their own embarrassing credulity.
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August 11, 2026
He Fired a Nazi Gun and Joked About Killing Old People. Republicans Don’t Seem Concerned.
Thanks to Trump, G.O.P. extremism has become so ordinary that it breaks through only when it reaches an absurdly high level.
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August 5, 2026
Abdul El-Sayed Thinks Progressives Have a Way to Win. I Hope He’s Right.
Abdul El-Sayed is quick, magnetic, overflowing with infectious confidence. But he also has a blind spot endemic to his movement.
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July 27, 2026
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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July 24, 2026
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Shows That Epics Are Better Without A.I.
A.I. has rendered eye candy cheap. Viewers long for the visceral.
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