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Why Is China in So Much Trouble?

I Spent 17 Years Photographing One Family’s Grief and Growth

On Their High Horse, Too Many Liberals Disdain Oliver Anthony

‘Freedom’ Is a Word I No Longer Trust

The Paranoid Style in American Plutocrats

Nikki Haley Is the Best Trump Alternative

Winners and Losers of the First Republican Debate

America Is Losing Religious Faith

What Can Replace China as a Global Economic Engine?

‘I Don’t Think Trump Will Be the Nominee’: Three Writers Preview the First G.O.P. Debate

The Trump-Free Debate That’s All About Trump

What It Was Like to Live Through ‘Canada’s Summer of Fire and Smoke’

‘I’d Like to Reinvent What Closeness Means’

Backflip

If Republicans Narrow the Field, We Will Beat Trump

Let’s Stop Pretending College Degrees Don’t Matter

Shakespeare in Full, Including the Bawdy Parts, Except in Florida

Republicans Are Making the Liberal Arts Scarce in the Poorest States

Margot Robbie’s Sly Interpretation of the Feminine Ideal

Enrique Tarrio Is a Curious Case of Latino White Supremacy

Our Economy Thrives on Bad Feelings

They Live in Constant Pain, but Their Doctors Won’t Help Them

Maui and the Age of the Urban Firestorm

Xi, Putin and the Perils of Aging Autocrats

What It’s Like to Swim in an Ocean That’s 100 Degrees

The Book Banners and I Have One Thing in Common

Why Are So Many of Trump’s Alleged Co-Conspirators Lawyers?

Proof That One Life Can Change the World

The Deluge Facing Africa’s Leaders Is Going to Get Worse

I Live in the Europe of My American Dreams

Why an Unremarkable Racist Enjoyed the Backing of Billionaires

The Ultimate Horror Movie Is Really About Heaven and Hell

Can Britain Boom and Bloom at Once?

Where’s the Vicuña Outrage?

Are the Elite Anti-Trumpers the ‘Bad Guys’?

A Hidden Currency of Incalculable Worth

The Montgomery Brawl Was, for Some, a Clarifying Moment

Why Is America Such a Deadly Place?

Why Televising the Trump Trial Is a Bad Idea

Why Barbie and Ken Need Each Other

The ‘Never-Again Trumper’ Sham

Control

Mayor Adams and New York’s Immigration Crisis

As the Planet Bakes, Big Oil’s Support for Clean Energy Is Still Well Short of What’s Needed

A Woman, Teens and a Viral Video

My Hope for American Discourse

A Brief and Futile Argument in Defense of the Incandescent Bulb

Is the Supreme Court Conservative? Yes. Is It MAGA? No.

Legacy Admissions Aren’t Fair. But Are They Wrong?

What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?