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101

In the Epstein Saga, Trump Is His Own Worst Enemy

102

Africa Is Rising. The World Shouldn’t Turn Its Back.

103

America's Next Story: Cecilia Muñoz

104

Are Post-Trump Politics Emerging?

105

How Should Trump Approach China? A Debate.

106

America's Next Story: Senator Bernie Sanders

107

Congress Is Dying in Real Time

108

We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust

109

People Still Want to Get Married. Why Aren't They?

110

America's Next Story: Jill Lepore

111

Trump Has a Religion. What Do Democrats Have?

112

America's Next Story: Senator Ruben Gallego

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113

There Is No Trump Without the South

114

What Trump’s Peace Deal Really Means for Gaza

115

America’s Next Story: Pete Buttigieg

116

Who Can Stop a President Deploying Troops?

117

Tom Friedman on the Only Way to Solve the Israel-Hamas War

118

America’s Next Story: Trumpism After Trump

119

‘If You Don’t Want This Consequence, Don’t Vote for Republicans’

120

The ‘Thursday Murder Club’ Author Wants Us to Rethink Aging

121

Ken Burns on America’s Next Story

122

What a Book of Excuses Reveals About the Democrats’ Future

123

Trump Is America’s First Meme President

124

Elizabeth Warren on America's Next Story

125

‘We’re in the Most Dangerous Point for Free Speech in America’

126

Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Is a Calamity

127

America Was Defined by a Story. It’s Time for a New One.

128

The ‘Fork in the Road’ After Charlie Kirk’s Death

129

When Authoritarianism Looms, Old Friends Reunite

130

What Germany Did That America Still Hasn’t

131

Three Opinion Writers on Whether Congress Can Rein in Trump

132

Tom Friedman’s A.I. Nightmare and What the U.S. Can Do to Avoid It

133

Replay: This Jail in Rural Maine Is a Model for Treating Opioid Addiction

134

Replay: Kristi Noem and the MAGA Beauty Aesthetic

135

Trump’s Political Theater Won’t Save D.C.

136

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Impact So Far: ‘The Worst Possible Case’

137

A.I. Is Fueling a ‘Poverty of Imagination.’ Here’s How We Can Fix It.

138

Trump Is a Totem For Wealth. What Happens If the Economy Crashes?

139

This Pastor Thought Being Gay Was a Sin. Then His 15-Year-Old Came Out.

140

Is There a Smart Way to Cede Power to Donald Trump?

141

Why Starvation in Gaza Has Reached a Tipping Point

142

Thin, White and Right: The Ideal Christian Woman

143

‘African American’ Is Awkward. It’s Time to Use ‘Black.’

144

What the Democratic Party Still Doesn’t Get About Deportations

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I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

146

There Is Hope for Democrats. Look to Kansas.

147

Trump, Epstein and a Stinging SCOTUS Dissent

148

‘Jeopardy!’ Is a Reminder that Facts Are Fun — and Essential

149

Are the Courts Checking Trump — or Enabling Him?

150

Elon Musk’s Revenge Campaign

151

The World’s Best and Brightest Are Moving, but Not to America

152

The G.O.P. Fought for This Bill. When Trump’s Cuts Came? Silence.

153

U.S.A.I.D. Might Be Dead, but the Waste Is Alive and Well

154

Trump May Get His ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ but the G.O.P. Will Pay a Price

155

Trump, Iran and the Slow Creep of Presidential Power

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Is Iran Really a Threat to the United States? A Debate.

157

Are We Headed For Another Endless Middle Eastern War?

158

Trump Is Vulnerable. Democrats Still Need a Strategy.

159

Tom Friedman: ‘This Is One of the Most Remarkable Dramas in the Middle East’

160

It’s Not Just Trump Voters. Both Parties Are in Denial.

161

Three Opinion Writers on the L.A. Protests and Trump’s Spectacle of Control

162

The Israeli Hostage Who Refused to Embrace Revenge

163

The Beautiful Danger of Normal Life During an Autocratic Rise

164

Is the Ukraine War the Next Afghanistan?

165

A Punk Survival Guide for Gen Z

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166

Why Politics Feels So Cruel Right Now

167

Tom Friedman: Will Israel’s War Ever End?

168

How to Turn the Middle Against Trump

169

The Good News About a Bad G.P.A.

170

Are We in a New Era of Presidential Regalism?

171

Michelle Goldberg: ‘More Democrats Need to Be Doing This’

172

Trump’s Era of International Bullying

173

Four Legal Immigrants Offer a Warning for America

174

Are Trump’s Tariffs Trying to Solve a Problem That Doesn’t Exist?

175

How Three Democrats Who Saved the Party Before Would Do It Again

176

Kristi Noem and the MAGA Beauty Aesthetic

177

Why a Good Political Argument Is Like Good Sex

178

‘Donald Trump Will Not Be President Four Years Hence’

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Maureen Dowd and Carlos Lozada on 100 Days of Trump’s ‘Fake Reality’

180

Tariffs Could Ruin My Small Business

181

Lydia Polgreen on What’s Missing in Our Conversation About Immigration

182

After Pope Francis: A Round Table With David French

183

Welcome to Trump’s Mafia State

184

The Trump Administration Is Disappearing People Like the Soviet Union

185

Bret Stephens on What Trump Gets Right, Wrong and Really, Really Wrong

186

Larry Summers on Trump: ‘The First Rule of Holes Is Stop Digging’

187

‘They're Coming After All of Us. So You Might As Well Tell the Truth.’

188

‘We’re Playing With Fire’: The Risks of Trump’s Tariffs on China

189

How to Survive in Politically Volatile Times

190

Steve Rattner on Just How Bad Things Will Get Under Trump’s Tariffs

191

To Save Democracy, Here’s a Playbook That Works

192

Obama’s Not Going to Save Democrats, but This Might

193

A Jewish Comedian Walks Into a Theater in Minnesota

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David Leonhardt: 'By the Time Trump Comes for Your University, It's Probably Too Late'

195

The Worst Part of Pete Hegseth’s Group Chat Debacle

196

The Claim Trump Is Making That ‘Could Break the American System’

197

Tom Friedman: Trump Is a ‘Small Man in a Big Time’

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Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.

199

Measles, MAHA Moms and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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They Saved Taxpayers Billions. Trump Fired Them Anyway.