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“When you stoop down on European soil to read an American soldier’s name on a grave, you see how policies sold as ‘America First’ can lead to unthinkable suffering and loss,” Jonathan Darman writes.
Opinion | On Veterans Day, This Is the Lonely, Terrible Sorrow We Must Never Forget
To imagine the cost of an “America First” policy, walk through World War II cemeteries in Europe.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“When you stoop down on European soil to read an American soldier’s name on a grave, you see how policies sold as ‘America First’ can lead to unthinkable suffering and loss,” Jonathan Darman writes.
“Euphoria, it turns out, was but fleeting,” Robert S. Nussbaum writes in a letter to The Times. “The Democrats, it seems, are splintering, their resolve dissolving in the face of the continuing calamity inflicted by the Trump administration.”
Opinion | Democrats Didn’t Compromise on the Shutdown. They Collapsed.
Readers respond to the Democratic defection that may help end the shutdown. Also: The proposed Trump coin; seniors who downsize.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
“Euphoria, it turns out, was but fleeting,” Robert S. Nussbaum writes in a letter to The Times. “The Democrats, it seems, are splintering, their resolve dissolving in the face of the continuing calamity inflicted by the Trump administration.”
Alex Karp, the billionaire C.E.O. of Palantir who has recently pivoted to the political right, “seems a case study in the way ideology often follows self-interest,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
Opinion | Palantir C.E.O. Alex Karp Finds a Safe Space With Trump
A tech billionaire professes to hate identity politics, but they seem in some ways to consume him.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Alex Karp, the billionaire C.E.O. of Palantir who has recently pivoted to the political right, “seems a case study in the way ideology often follows self-interest,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
The government is making medical schools more expensive, and it’s now up to educators to figure out a way forward. “The smartest, fastest and most pragmatic solution is simple: shorten medical school to three years,” three medical experts argue.
Opinion | Make Medical School Three Years
Medicine shouldn’t be a career for the wealthy alone.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The government is making medical schools more expensive, and it’s now up to educators to figure out a way forward. “The smartest, fastest and most pragmatic solution is simple: shorten medical school to three years,” three medical experts argue.
The first step toward building a good jobs agenda requires officials thinking about economic development “to get over their manufacturing fetishism,” writes Dani Rodrik.
Opinion | This Is What a Good Job Looks Like
It starts with abandoning the fetish over manufacturing.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The first step toward building a good jobs agenda requires officials thinking about economic development “to get over their manufacturing fetishism,” writes Dani Rodrik.
“The same drug that is poison to you could be a panacea to me and a placebo for someone else,” writes Maia Szalavitz. “Demonizing some substances and anointing others obscures reality.”
Opinion | What Is Kennedy’s Problem With Medication?
Shaming people for being on medication is dangerous.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
“The same drug that is poison to you could be a panacea to me and a placebo for someone else,” writes Maia Szalavitz. “Demonizing some substances and anointing others obscures reality.”
“Trumpism began in anger, alienation, frustration and division. The antidote is empathy, solidarity, mutual respect and hope. Tuesday’s elections delivered a starter dose,” writes E.J. Dionne Jr.
Opinion | Now We Know Trump’s Kryptonite
Democratic election victories should kill the myth that Trumpism is invincible.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Trumpism began in anger, alienation, frustration and division. The antidote is empathy, solidarity, mutual respect and hope. Tuesday’s elections delivered a starter dose,” writes E.J. Dionne Jr.
“The conversation about immigration enforcement is not a comfortable conversation,” Cecilia Muñoz, who helped shape immigration policy under President Barack Obama, says on this episode of “The Opinions.”
“We have to address that, but we can’t address it just by objecting,” she argues.
“We have to address that, but we can’t address it just by objecting,” she argues.
Opinion | ‘We Have a Border for a Reason’
Cecilia Muñoz on how to solve America’s biggest political challenge.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“The conversation about immigration enforcement is not a comfortable conversation,” Cecilia Muñoz, who helped shape immigration policy under President Barack Obama, says on this episode of “The Opinions.”
“We have to address that, but we can’t address it just by objecting,” she argues.
“We have to address that, but we can’t address it just by objecting,” she argues.
“If I were in the Senate, I wouldn’t vote for this compromise,” our columnist Ezra Klein writes. “Shutdowns are an opportunity to make your arguments, and the country was just starting to pay attention.”
Opinion | Democrats Were on a Roll. Why Stop Now?
This is how the shutdown ends?
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November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“If I were in the Senate, I wouldn’t vote for this compromise,” our columnist Ezra Klein writes. “Shutdowns are an opportunity to make your arguments, and the country was just starting to pay attention.”
“We have arrived at a moment that is much more than the aftermath of a largely bipolar superpower rivalry born in the mid- to late 1940s. It’s the birth of something novel and highly complex to which we all must adapt, and quickly — but what to call it?” our columnist Thomas Friedman asks.
Opinion | We’re In a New Everything-Is-Connected Epoch. But What to Call It?
We have arrived at a “Polycene” moment where binary systems are giving way to multiple interconnected ones.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“We have arrived at a moment that is much more than the aftermath of a largely bipolar superpower rivalry born in the mid- to late 1940s. It’s the birth of something novel and highly complex to which we all must adapt, and quickly — but what to call it?” our columnist Thomas Friedman asks.
“As people increasingly turn to A.I. chat tools as confidants, therapists and advisers, we urgently need a new form of legal protection that would safeguard most private communications between people and A.I. chatbots,” writes Nils Gilman.
Opinion | Doctors, Lawyers and Priests Keep Secrets. Why Not Your Chatbot?
The case for “A.I. Interaction Privilege.”
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November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
“As people increasingly turn to A.I. chat tools as confidants, therapists and advisers, we urgently need a new form of legal protection that would safeguard most private communications between people and A.I. chatbots,” writes Nils Gilman.
“As an addiction medicine doctor, I have significant concerns about involuntary addiction treatment,” Cara Borelli writes in a letter to The Times. “Based on studies that compare voluntary to mandatory treatment, the evidence does not indicate that mandatory treatment reduces substance use.”
Opinion | When Addiction Treatment Is Involuntary
Readers respond to a proposal in Utah to forcibly remove homeless people. Also: Stolen treasures; America’s gambling problem; why retire?
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November 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“As an addiction medicine doctor, I have significant concerns about involuntary addiction treatment,” Cara Borelli writes in a letter to The Times. “Based on studies that compare voluntary to mandatory treatment, the evidence does not indicate that mandatory treatment reduces substance use.”
“By not shying away from the less glamorized settings of New York City,” Zaina Arafat writes, Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign “was able to connect first to our shared humanity.”
Opinion | What Zohran Mamdani Understands About New York
Zohran Mamdani made the city glow, bringing a beauty to the everyday fixtures we ceased to register.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“By not shying away from the less glamorized settings of New York City,” Zaina Arafat writes, Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign “was able to connect first to our shared humanity.”
The Bronx River Parkway, the first of its kind, opened a century ago. “Bigotry and racial injustice, it turns out, was baked into the American highway from the start,” Thomas J. Campanella argues. But the parkway also shows a new path forward.
Opinion | The Promise of the Bronx River Parkway
A pioneering road shows what highways were and what they can be as it turns 100.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The Bronx River Parkway, the first of its kind, opened a century ago. “Bigotry and racial injustice, it turns out, was baked into the American highway from the start,” Thomas J. Campanella argues. But the parkway also shows a new path forward.
“Throughout the Trump era, many of the most prominent voices of right-wing America have only become shriller, angrier and, yes, more racist and more antisemitic,” our columnist David French writes.
Opinion | Cruelty, Bigotry and Rage. What’s Not to Like?
This is what happens when the fringe becomes the mainstream (and vice versa).
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November 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“Throughout the Trump era, many of the most prominent voices of right-wing America have only become shriller, angrier and, yes, more racist and more antisemitic,” our columnist David French writes.
Josh Shapiro’s “version of the Democratic Party is more patriotic than the G.O.P. and, in some sense, more conservative,” Binyamin Appelbaum writes.
Opinion | Josh Shapiro Knows What the Democrats Need
The Democratic Party will not return to the White House, nor reclaim Congress, until it learns to embrace centrist politicians like Pennsylvania’s governor.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Josh Shapiro’s “version of the Democratic Party is more patriotic than the G.O.P. and, in some sense, more conservative,” Binyamin Appelbaum writes.
“Remember when exercise was fun?” writes Rachel Feintzeig. “Just kidding. It was never fun. But it was better.”
Opinion | Exercising Is the Worst
Exercise has never been fun, but our expectations for physical performance, what it means to be healthy, and what it means to age have gotten too high.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
“Remember when exercise was fun?” writes Rachel Feintzeig. “Just kidding. It was never fun. But it was better.”
“During the Cold War, pop culture was an immensely powerful force on America’s side, and the U.S.S.R. had no answer” — but that era is over, Stephen Marche writes. “America’s global cultural dominance is diminished every day that Mr. Trump is in office.”
Opinion | America Isn’t Cool Anymore
Pop culture exports have long been a potent source of American soft power. What happens when the U.S. is no longer the global capital of cool?
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November 9, 2025 at 6:10 AM
“During the Cold War, pop culture was an immensely powerful force on America’s side, and the U.S.S.R. had no answer” — but that era is over, Stephen Marche writes. “America’s global cultural dominance is diminished every day that Mr. Trump is in office.”
Imposing one political message is “incompatible with the broad political and ideological diversity of the Democratic coalition,” Jamelle Bouie writes. “Better to focus on a set of areas that individual candidates can tailor to their respective electorates, which is exactly what happened on Tuesday.”
Opinion | We Can’t Pretend to Know the Future of the Democratic Party
There is no one-size-fits-all template for winning elections.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Imposing one political message is “incompatible with the broad political and ideological diversity of the Democratic coalition,” Jamelle Bouie writes. “Better to focus on a set of areas that individual candidates can tailor to their respective electorates, which is exactly what happened on Tuesday.”
“If Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do
Murderous attacks on Christians and Muslims alike are a real problem in Nigeria. Cutting humanitarian assistance there is even more lethal.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“If Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
“The idea of America — equal opportunity for all — is what made America great,” Maurice F. Baggiano writes in a letter to The Times. “President Trump and the Republican Party seem bent on destroying that.”
Opinion | Will the Idea of America Be Lost?
Readers discuss equal opportunity and immigration as central ideas in the American project. Also: The value of brain research; Democratic momentum.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“The idea of America — equal opportunity for all — is what made America great,” Maurice F. Baggiano writes in a letter to The Times. “President Trump and the Republican Party seem bent on destroying that.”
“One thing that Republicans did in 2024 is they created this pretty big tent that just had one condition for membership, and that’s the red hat. If you put on the red hat, you’re with us,” our columnist David French says on this episode of “The Opinions.” “What happens when Mr. Red Hat is gone?”
Opinion | Are Post-Trump Politics Emerging?
The round table convenes to discuss what comes after the Democrats’ big wins — and whether the “red hat” coalition can recover.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“One thing that Republicans did in 2024 is they created this pretty big tent that just had one condition for membership, and that’s the red hat. If you put on the red hat, you’re with us,” our columnist David French says on this episode of “The Opinions.” “What happens when Mr. Red Hat is gone?”
“Is there not a certain unique potency in the monarchy that some ambitious figure might try to revive and use before the end?” our columnist Ross Douthat asks about a possible end to the British royals in a period of national dissolution.
Opinion | Will Anyone Play the King Again?
If all other institutions fail, is there not a certain unique potency in the monarchy before dissolution?
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November 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“Is there not a certain unique potency in the monarchy that some ambitious figure might try to revive and use before the end?” our columnist Ross Douthat asks about a possible end to the British royals in a period of national dissolution.
“A.I. is no less a form of intelligence than digital photography is a form of photography,” the philosopher Barbara Gail Montero writes. “And now A.I. is on its way to doing something even more remarkable: becoming conscious.”
Opinion | A.I. Is Already Intelligent. This Is How It Becomes Conscious.
Skeptics overlook how our concepts change.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“A.I. is no less a form of intelligence than digital photography is a form of photography,” the philosopher Barbara Gail Montero writes. “And now A.I. is on its way to doing something even more remarkable: becoming conscious.”
Could Trump prove to be a temporary aberration on the Republican Party? Might it “return to its Reaganite essence once the man who has done so much to trash it finally leaves the Oval Office in a few years?” Damon Linker asks.
Opinion | Reagan, Not Trump, Is the Real G.O.P. Aberration
Why the future of the G.O.P. will likely be guided by the right’s political DNA.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Could Trump prove to be a temporary aberration on the Republican Party? Might it “return to its Reaganite essence once the man who has done so much to trash it finally leaves the Oval Office in a few years?” Damon Linker asks.