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Reading Two Chapters of ‘The Great Gatsby’ Is Not Enough

Why U.S. Conservatives Should Fall in Love With France

Musk Doesn’t Understand Why Government Matters

Meet Trump’s Anti-D.E.I. Crusader

The F.D.A.’s New Boss Will Face an Age-Old Dilemma

How Covid Remade America

20 Years Ago, Democrats Found a Way Out of the Wilderness. They Can Again.

How Democrats’ Bad Messaging Could Ensure Another Republican Win

Ukraine Is Europe’s War Now

Trump Is Borrowing Argentina’s Chain Saw. America Will Suffer.

‘My Problem Was Not With Grief With a Capital G. My Problem Was That Eric Was Dead.’

I Broke Up With My Abusive Mother. I Don’t Regret That Decision.

The Democrats Need a Project 2029. Here’s a Start.

America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness

Trump and Vance Are Stripping Away Foreign Policy Illusions

A Federal Judge Says: Knock Off the Threats

The Department of Education Threatens to Pull the Plug on Colleges

On Seeing Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan at the AMC Clifton Commons

What You Hear if You Listen to the Costumes in ‘A Complete Unknown’

How to Fix Retirement Insecurity

I Teach at Harvard. Store Managers See Me as a Threat.

What This Tariff War Is Really About

Germany’s Big Fascist Comeback

Trump and Musk, the ‘Co-Presidents’

Pay Attention to the Words Elon Musk Uses with DOGE

There’s One Lie I Will Never Tell My Children

Some Trumpian Realpolitik Is Needed With Afghanistan

Every 100 Years America Produces a Robert Kennedy Jr.

Choosing My Religion (or Not)

Trump’s Education Plans and America’s Most Vulnerable Students

The End of the Blurb. Thank God.

Can MAGA Run the American Empire?

The Dangerous A.I. Nonsense That Trump and Biden Fell For

The Impossible Math of Philanthropy

The Republicans’ Choice: Tax Cuts for the Rich or Health Care for Americans

Isolationist? Nationalist? No, Trump Is Something Else Entirely.

Something Extraordinary Is Happening All Over the World

Corporate Leaders Need to Keep Their Mouths Shut

‘It Cannot Go On Like This’: Voices From Europe’s Swing to the Right

Our Kids Cannot Learn About Sex Just From Squeamish Gym Teachers

We Can Make A.I. Work for Us

It’s All Good and You’re Perfect

How Tyranny Begins

Sorry, No Secret to Life Is Going to Make You Live to 110

Sean Spicer on Trump 2.0: ‘It’s Going to Be Cataclysmic’

Attention Is Power

The Decline in Geriatric Care Hurts Us All

‘Where’s Our Place in Society?’: 12 Men Who Backed Trump Grapple With America

The Catholic Church Must Challenge Trump on Deportations

Revenge Is a Dish Best Served From the White House