Long-range missiles, North Korean troops and starker threats from Russia — the war has entered a more volatile phase.
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Naomi Beinart, 16, on the gender divide that the election revealed at her high school.
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Our critics on the streamer’s most watched unscripted premiere of the year.
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How Israel Uses Palestinian Detainees as Human Shields
An investigation into an Israeli tactic in Gaza, and what it reveals about the nature of the war there.
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The Metamorphosis of Pete Hegseth
Three military deployments reshaped the views of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department.
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President-elect Donald Trump’s first pick for attorney general had faced scrutiny after allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use.
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President-elect Donald J. Trump has repeatedly cited the case in his push for the mass deportation of millions of undocumented people.
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The Appeal of the Smaller Breast
Why are increasing numbers of younger women undergoing the cosmetic reduction surgery?
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A Fragile Israel-Hezbollah Truce, and a Push to Make You Love Plastic
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Trump’s Dramatic Tariff Plan, and a Cease-Fire Takes Shape in Lebanon
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Trump’s New Pick for Attorney General, and a Surprise Turn in U.S. Drug Deaths
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Gaetz Ethics Report Blocked, and the Trial That’s Horrified France
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Former W.W.E. Boss Tapped to Run Education, and Trans Rights on Capitol Hill
Plus, this musical wants France to love it back.
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What Democrats Think Went Wrong
A political autopsy. A focus group. A return to Herndon family hospitality.
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The Man in Charge of Trump’s Border Policy
An interview with Tom Homan.
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One Voter to Understand Trump’s Win
For one woman in Michigan, it wasn’t an obvious decision, but in the end it came down to this: “frustration and self-Interest.”
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A Final Dispatch From America’s Bellwether
These Washington State voters have picked winners since 1980. This year, what everyone agrees on is anxiety.
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Tailgating in Wisconsin With the Bros Trump Needs
Gender is a main dividing line in 2024. And young swing-state voters know it.
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Trump’s Next Online Speech Cop + Doctors vs. ChatGPT + Hard Fork Crimes Division
“I feel very strongly that the First Amendment is under the most direct threat that any of us will ever really experience.”
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Crypto Congress + HBD ChatGPT + What Social Media Platform Should I Be On?
Cryptocurrency is poised to have a huge year in 2025.
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What Trump 2.0 Means for Tech + A.I. Made Me Basic + HatGPT!
A shake-up is coming for Silicon Valley.
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Billionaire Game Theory + We Are Not Ready for A.G.I. + Election Betting Markets Get Weird
“If I had $1 billion, how would I try to influence the results of this election?”
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The Elon-ction + Can A.I. Be Blamed for a Teen’s Suicide?
The 2024 election has a new main character.
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K-Pop Trained Rosé to Be ‘a Perfect Girl.’ Now She’s Trying to Be Herself.
The Blackpink star strikes out on her own, away from the system that turned her into a global phenomenon.
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The former House Speaker reflects on Donald Trump’s victory, Kamala Harris’s candidacy and the future of the Democratic Party.
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The senator discusses the “astonishing” support for the former president in Pennsylvania, his rift with progressives over Israel and his own position in the Democratic Party.
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Will This Poem Find Life in Outer Space?
Together, NASA and the U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón bring a little bit of humanity to the second moon of Jupiter.
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Listen to the Smooth Sounds of Sade
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Nearly 200 years after his death, the piano master is back.
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She Wrote ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.’ Then, She Was Gone.
Twenty years after her debut sold four million copies, Susanna Clarke is back.
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Wesley Morris has a theory.
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Thomas Friedman: Trump’s Path to a Nobel Peace Prize?
How the president-elect could change the Middle East — for the better.
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True confessions from the New York Times Cooking desk.
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The U.S. was never going to save Ukraine, but the incoming president could stop the suffering.
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Jed Bartlett and other presidents of our youth.
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Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam had a vision for how Republicans could reclaim the working class. They never expected Trump to fulfill it.
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Trump is assembling his new team. David French and Ross Douthat dissect what it means.
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Trump is on track to win the popular vote. There’s a lesson there.
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Faiz Shakir makes a case for the Democratic Party to embrace economic populism.
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In This House, We’re Angry When Government Fails
The Democratic Party needs to rethink what it means to be the party of institutions.
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Thanksgiving With My Wife and Girlfriend
Townsend Davis and his wife Bridget were happily married for more than a decade when an unexpected diagnosis disrupted everything.
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He Saved Me. Now It Was My Turn to Save Him.
They say it’s a bad idea to start a new relationship when you’re fighting an addiction, but Laura Cathcart Robbins decided she had to break the rules.
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Mayan Lopez found a way to turn her family drama into laughter.
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His first term was marked by backlash and protest. But the president-elect has found new streams of embrace and approval.
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Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel about the rise and fall of a rural Colombian village as seen through generations of its founding family remains the leading exemplar of magical realism.
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Bob Iger of Disney on Culture Wars and Streaming
The chief executive talks about returning to the company’s roots while adapting to changing times.
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How Andrew Ross Sorkin Gets Business and World Leaders to Open Up
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We want to hear your stories of the beloved celebrity orca, whose real-life return to the ocean is explored in our new podcast.
By The Serial Team
How do you count almost 12 million votes if you’re not the government?
Tell us about your experience, and you may be featured on the Modern Love podcast.
By The Modern Love Podcast Team
When Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, it prompted an outpouring of protests. What will happen this time?
By Sabrina Tavernise, Lynsea Garrison, Sydney Harper, Eric Krupke, Devon Taylor, Ben Calhoun, Lexie Diao, Dan Powell, Rowan Niemisto, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano and Chris Wood
Plus, the man who opened travel to the masses.
By Tracy Mumford, Vivian Yee, Robert Jimison, Ian Stewart and Jessica Metzger
The choice of Matt Gaetz shocked Washington and raised questions about whether the Senate would approve him.
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Plus, the 50-yard field goal phenomenon.
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One whale, and what it represents for millions of people.
For decades, the sport has been shaped in large part by one company — and one man.
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“There was no appreciation — no appreciation — of the struggling and the suffering of millions and millions of working-class people,” the senator said.
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