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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 5m
“For women who’d gone to college decades ago, the ones who’d spent their undergraduate years marching and protesting,” Jennifer Weiner writes, fury over the Cornell sexual assault case “was laced with a kind of bewildered exhaustion. How is this still happening? Shouldn’t things be better by now?”
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Opinion | I Thought Things Had Gotten Better. The Cornell Case Breaks My Heart.
How could so little have changed?
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1h
“Research reveals that the frequency of interaction does not determine the quality of a relationship,” Adam Grant writes. “In fact, time apart can actually bring us closer together.”
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Opinion | The Scientific Case for Being Less in Touch With Your Friends
Prioritize the contact that really makes a difference.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 2h
Commentary from A.I. executives “suggests they currently operate in a legal vacuum, as if A.I. has wiped clean the regulatory map,” Lina Khan writes. “In fact, their business practices — including how they develop and deploy their technologies — are already subject to longstanding laws.”
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Opinion | Trump Wants Our A.I. Titans to Police Themselves. What Can Go Wrong?
Government enforcers have the laws and the experience to control A.I.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 3h
“Trump’s attempt to seize spending power from Congress is not just about his preferred policies; it is also about his effort to etch himself into the nation’s built landscape with new structures and monuments,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.
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Opinion | Trump Wants to Get His Hands on the Power of the Purse
The search for fraud in the federal government must always end in the same place.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 5h
“How on earth did The New York Times, a seemingly ossified institution in a dying industry, survive the most destabilizing period in its history — and emerge stronger?” A.G. Sulzberger asks.
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Opinion | So You Want to Publish a Newspaper
How on earth did The New York Times, a seemingly ossified institution in a dying industry, survive the most destabilizing period in its history — and emerge stronger?
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 6h
“While dating has always been challenging and provided fodder for complaint, today’s teenagers and 20-somethings have a starting point of greater suspicion, which can be poison for the creation of romantic relationships,” Jessica Grose writes.
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Opinion | ‘Attention Infidelity’ Is Ruining Romance
Your full attention is a gift. Give it more often.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 9h
An upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case on freedom of religion “puts to the justices the question of whether they are satisfied with what they have accomplished so far,” Linda Greenhouse writes.
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Opinion | Religion Is the Roberts Court’s Unfinished Business
This case has flown under the radar, but it won’t stay there.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 9h
What would John Maynard Keynes, the founder of modern macroeconomics, say about what A.I. means for our economy? To find out, a Princeton economist built an A.I. model of Keynes and asked it.
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Opinion | What Would John Maynard Keynes Say About A.I.? The Keynes Bot Told Us.
Nearly a century ago, Keynes predicted that technology would liberate us from work. To imagine what he would think of artificial intelligence today, a Princeton economist used A.I.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 18h
“This week on ‘The Ezra Klein Show,’ Bill Gates gave a blistering assessment of the risks that artificial intelligence poses and how unprepared the world is for the technology we’re building,” Jack McCordick, the episode’s producer, writes. “Here are six takeaways from the conversation.”
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Opinion | 6 Takeaways From Ezra Klein’s Interview With Bill Gates
The technologist and philanthropist offers a blunt warning on A.I. risks.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 19h
On Wednesday, Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike for a murder she committed when she was 18. At that age, many essential brain systems are not fully developed, Sophia Laurenzi writes. “This matters when we decide whether the most irrevocable punishment is proportionate to the crime.”
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Opinion | Governor Lee, This Woman Should Not Be on Death Row
Our brains don’t finish developing until we’re well into our 20s. That matters when deciding who gets the death penalty.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 20h
“Trump is leaving America exposed to dangerous viruses: digital, biological and diplomatic,” our columnist Thomas Friedman writes. “Something bad is going to happen to us as a result. We and our children are going to pay for this, and not only at the gas pump.”
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Opinion | Trump Is Going Viral in the Worst Ways
On the technological, diplomatic and biological fronts, Trump is creating a disaster.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 21h
For years, Trump “got a lot of mileage out of his supporters thinking of him as a singular figure — a tycoon who put his glitzy life on hold in order to fix a broken Washington,” Kristen Soltis Anderson writes. “Some of them are beginning to draw a different conclusion.”
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Opinion | Trump Has Become Just Another Disappointing Politician
His winning brand — outsider businessman — has withered.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
“Heritage is messy,” Deborah Fries writes in a letter to The Times. “Centuries of residency do not define character.”
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Opinion | Taking the True Measure of America’s Heritage
Readers respond to a column by David French about Heritage Americans. Also: President Trump’s mental fitness; Amazon’s drone invasion; A.I. and the job market.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wrote about the WNBA in its 30th year and the crossroads the league is at. Also there is a lil video! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/o...
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Opinion | It’s Time for the W.N.B.A. to Pick Sides (Gift Article)
The league has an invaluable opportunity right now; it can be a reflection of the world as it could be, not merely as it is.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
“Every week seems to bring a record high for diesel prices — and more trouble for the nation’s truckers,” Adam Wingfield writes.
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Opinion | $6 Diesel Is Hurting Small Truckers. It Could Hurt Trump, Too.
When fuel costs rise, the price of everything rises.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
“It may go too far to speak of the miraculous in an election,” writes E.J. Dionne, “but it is a source of wonder and some amazement” that “Kansas’ Senate race has joined the growing list of 2026 contests in which Republicans are vulnerable.”
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Opinion | Kansas Hasn’t Elected a Democrat to the Senate Since 1932. Adam Hamilton Could Change That.
This campaign could be a compelling model for Democrats.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
“This is the most dangerous thing that humans have ever gone near,” Bill Gates says about A.I. He walks through the technology’s risks and possibilities on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
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Opinion | Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I.
As A.I. capabilities accelerate, the technologist is shocked by the “complete lack of engagement” with the question of how to manage its risks.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
“Someone who figures out how to talk straightforwardly with Americans about the trade-offs will win the votes of a grateful nation,” Bill McKibben writes.
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Opinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This.
A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
“If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to,” writes Joe Cruz.
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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
“The problems of high-tech industries were there before Mr. Trump arrived and will be there after he leaves,” Christopher Caldwell writes.
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Opinion | It Won’t Be So Easy for Democrats to Make Data Centers Their Issue
The problems of technology were there before Trump and will be there after.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
“Voters,” Thomas Edsall writes, “are showing a growing determination to repudiate” the Trump presidency. “Their most direct opportunity to express this determination is electing Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate.”
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Opinion | Trump’s Luck Is Finally Running Out
Voters are showing a growing determination to repudiate his presidency.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
“Take the number of official targets and multiply it by the number of bystanders it’s permissible to kill in order to reach the targets, and pretty soon, Abraham says in the film, ‘you end up with all of Gaza,’” our columnist M. Gessen writes about “NAZA.”
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Opinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once
The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
“Artificial intelligence can indeed be a huge help in the public health arena,” John Stearns writes in a letter to The Times. “However, A.I. bots cannot replace doctors. That is typical Silicon Valley hubris. A.I. is great at searches but is weak at matching human judgment.”
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Opinion | A.I. Is Not a Doctor. We Need Human Ones.
Readers respond to a front-page article, “Doctor A.I. Will See You, in Spite of Misgivings.” Also: Canada won’t yield; the lasting value of collective joy.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
“There are always elites,” says Hugo Drochon in a Q&A with Times Opinion. “The people get to decide which ones rule. That may not be our ideal of democracy, but it’s not nothing, either.”
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Opinion | Trump Revealed Something Essential About Elites
There are always elites. The people get to decide which ones rule.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
Japanese government bonds are “an esoteric part of international finance,” writes Rebecca Patterson. But the subject is “a vital underpinning for markets that matter for your retirement account, savings and household budget.”
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Opinion | The Other Bond Market You Need to Worry About
The revival of Japan’s economy isn’t all good news.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
I “feel extraordinarily bad that I can’t explain divorce to our dog. I might be projecting, but I think she wonders why the five of us aren’t still sitting on the couch together watching ‘Schitt’s Creek,’” Curtis Sittenfeld writes.
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Opinion | I Once Celebrated Marriage. Things Have Changed.
Eleven years later, the novelist revisits a guest essay she wrote about marriage.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
“An I.C.U. death can be peaceful and dignified. A death at home can be panicked and painful. Yet we have built a culture, and quality metrics, that treat I.C.U. care at the end of life as a failure,” Daniela Lamas writes.
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Opinion | A Good Death Isn’t Always at Home
We have built a culture that views a death in the I.C.U. as a failure.
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David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Transparency is part of the process of democratic governance. It’s irritating for leaders, but indispensable for democracies. It’s what permits the electorate to understand the truth about the wars they’re asked to support and to fight. And it’s what binds the people to the armies that serve them.
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Opinion | What Hegseth Is Hiding
Soldiers want to tell their stories, and we need to hear them.
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The UN is frustrating and disappointing -- but essential. It engineered the child survival revolution that saved 25 million lives. Yet now the US, China, Russia seem eager to marginalize it further, in ways that will cost lives: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/o...
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Opinion | The U.N. Is Terrible. We Need the U.N. (Gift Article)
Trump’s attack on global institutions leaves us helpless before a growing array of challenges.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
“America’s A.I. boom, and the industry’s voracious appetite for electricity, makes the grid a highly attractive target for China and other hostile states seeking to weaken this country,” write Harry Krejsa and Phoebe Benich.
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Opinion | Our Power Grid Is Vulnerable. This Is How to Protect It.
The Trump administration should build a stronger alliance with clean energy companies in spite of its culture war with them.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
“To provide a lasting advantage for the Democrats, the affordability issue can and should be more than about high prices,” Tim Wu writes.
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Opinion | Affordability Is a Winning Message for Democrats. But There’s an Even Better One.
If Democrats can embrace what affordability is really about, they might do even more than win elections.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
“More and more Americans choose to believe whatever the leaders of their tribe tell them and whatever justifies their prejudices or bolsters their sense of victimization or entitlement,” Frank Bruni writes.
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Opinion | Trump’s Most Durable Lie: Election Rigging
Trump’s most durable lie.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
The certainty around “super El Niño” conditions in the Pacific Ocean this year “means that many of the expected impacts — intense rainfall in some regions, drought and wildfire in others and an increase in global warming — are very likely to occur,” Jeffrey Shaman writes.
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Opinion | The Super El Niño Comes Bearing One Gift: Time to Prepare
There’s still time to prepare.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
“Our government is being run by a clique of middle-aged men,” Molly Jong-Fast writes. “Marco and Pete don’t drink identical Iced Banana Bread Matchas or wear pink on Wednesdays, but the social-emotional engine behind our government is the same as the one that runs the popular girls’ clique.”
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Opinion | The Mean Girls Presidency
Our government is being run by a clique of middle-aged guys.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
“What the A.I. companies are really buying when they hire philosophers, whether they know it or not,” Simon Critchley writes, is “a trained skepticism toward our own enthusiasms.”
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Opinion | The Id, the Ego and the Superintelligence
Artificial intelligence isn’t coming for philosophers’ jobs — it needs philosophers, and always will.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
“Organ donation depends on public trust,” Allison Erickson, the president of the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, writes in a letter to The Times.
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Opinion | The State of Organ Donation
Readers respond to “Organ Donation Needs to Be Trustworthy,” an Opinion guest essay by Greg Segal. Also: Don’t eat beef.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
“Human experience is complex and particular,” writes the designer Giorgia Lupi. “Creative work means contemplating and translating that complexity rather than flattening it into the simplest answer.”
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Opinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We Think
Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
How hard would it be for Britons to drop the habit of feeding garden birds “if it turned out to be harmful?" Lia Leendertz writes. “If we are truly a nation of bird lovers, shouldn’t we be able to put their welfare above our enjoyment of them?”
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Opinion | To Feed or Not to Feed the Birds?
One of Britain’s favorite national pastimes is hurting as well as helping.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
“To the extent that the court has put the brakes on the president’s assertions of executive power, it is arguably cleaning up its own mess,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.
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Opinion | Why Does Trump Think He Can Act Like a King?
The Supreme Court has had a lot to do with it.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
“If we want more patients to benefit from innovation, the goal should be smarter, more efficient trials — not simply faster ones,” Armen Margaryan, the chief executive of NoyMed, a medical contract research organization, writes in a letter to The Times.
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Opinion | Why Do Clinical Trials for Cancer Drugs Take So Long?
Readers respond to a guest essay about the costs and delays in getting experimental treatments to patients.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
The W.N.B.A. is “facing a pair of crises, not necessarily of its own making: how to welcome trans women, if and when it becomes necessary, and a rise in racism directed toward Black players,” Roxane Gay writes.
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Opinion | The W.N.B.A. Should Take Care of Its Own
The league has an invaluable opportunity right now; it can be a reflection of the world as it could be, not merely as it is.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
“Two of the things that count most in life are love and usefulness. Holding hands offers both,” Roger Rosenblatt writes.
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Opinion | Hold My Hand, Warm My Heart
Two of the things that count most in life are love and usefulness. Holding hands offers both.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
“The solution to the whole ever-expanding A.I. terror starts with remembering the lessons of the 2008 crisis: No company should be too big to fail,” Bethany McLean writes.
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Opinion | Has A.I. Become Too Big to Fail? Or Is It Something Worse?
It’s as though 2008 never even happened.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
“The big Trump problem is that he’s thrown away a lot of the advantage he had with working-class voters on economic issues, because he really hasn’t done anything for them,” E.J. Dionne Jr. says on “The Opinions."
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Opinion | ‘The MAGA Flag Is in Tatters’
This week in politics: Midwest realignment and what’s next for conservatives.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
“‘The Sopranos,’ ‘The Wire,’ ‘Mad Men’ and ‘Breaking Bad,’ besides being among the best shows the medium has ever produced, together served as a televisual Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” Stephen Marche writes.
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Opinion | The Four TV Shows That Explain America
Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
“Fuel prices are surging. Trump’s Iran war has spread to Yemen and the Red Sea. Russia is engaging in so-called gray-zone attacks in Europe,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. “Yet for many of these problems, the United Nations is becoming almost irrelevant.”
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Opinion | The U.N. Is Terrible. We Need the U.N.
Trump’s attack on global institutions leaves us helpless before a growing array of challenges.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
“I practice primary care, where every malady is my business,” Rachael Bedard writes. “I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — history-taking, reasoning, communicating. I’m less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts.”
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Opinion | A.I. Has Made Me a Better Doctor. It’s Made Med Students Worse.
I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
“I find it deeply disrespectful to National Book Award winners and those on the longlists to characterize their recognition as a D.E.I. win, as though their identities, rather than their talent, are what earned them literary acclaim,” Amanda Armstrong-Frank writes in a letter to The Times.
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Opinion | Are Book Awards Dictated by D.E.I.?
Readers respond to a column by Bret Stephens that argues that they are. Also: Climate change grief; endangered humans; a warning in Germany.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
In the new Met exhibition about Jackson Pollock and his wife, Lee Krasner, she “is revealed to be the painter she was at the beginning of her decades-long artistic journey: his equal,” Mary Gabriel writes.
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Opinion | Lee Krasner. Artist. Wife.
Only by being exhibited alongside her husband, Jackson Pollock, can Lee Krasner fully and finally emerge from his shadow.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
“This November, in races few people are watching, four of seven swing states will elect a secretary of state,” Ellen Kurz writes. Whether the 2028 presidential election “ends in a constitutional crisis depends on who they are, and the candidates are alarming.”
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Opinion | These Elections Could Decide 2028. No One Is Watching Them.
Four swing states will soon elect the official who will run the 2028 presidential election. The candidates are alarming.
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