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Jamelle Bouie: We waited for a repudiation that never came

The liberal hope for the 2020 presidential election was a repudiation of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. It is no longer on the table. A Joe Biden win, if it happens, will ...

David Brooks: Is this the new future of American liberalism?

The United States recently endured its worst economic quarter in recorded history. If this trend had continued for an entire year, American economic output would have been down by...

Erik Molvar and Jennifer Molidor: Cattle are ecological misfits in the arid West

In the debate over grazing in the West, there’s a trend toward magical thinking. In “ Unlike cows, native wildlife in the West don’t need arid lands flooded with water to be productive. Bef...

Ross Douthat: Trump’s virus tragedy is of Biblical proportions

Just two days before Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, several of my New York Times colleagues published a story about the early days of the pandemic, and the strong global p...

Bret Stephens: A secret Trump supporter spills the beans

Chris is a registered Democrat in her 50s who lives in Manhattan. She’s well-educated, well-traveled and well-informed. She has voted for candidates of both parties over the years and was en...

Kathleen Curry: For Colorado, Biden must shun the Green New Deal

Former Vice President Joe Biden has a strong chance of becoming our next U.S. president. Many people who, like me, are disaffected by Donald Trump’s leadership style and ego are eager for an...

Jennifer Senior: The Ginsburg-Scalia routine was not a farce

For the second time in five years, a sitting Supreme Court justice has died, and for the second time in five years, Sen. Mitch McConnell has befouled the process to replace that justice with...

Bret Stephens: An open letter to Mitt Romney, about the Supreme Court

Dear Sen. Romney, It isn’t hard to guess what you’re hearing from most of your fellow Republicans as they try to persuade you to cast a vote for President Donald Trump’s Supreme C...

Ross Douthat: Let’s talk about what isn’t President Trump’s fault

Recently, I wrote a column arguing that the blundering of the Trump administration, while real and deadly, may not be responsible for the bulk of America’s coronavirus fatalities. ...

Richard Grossman: ‘Natural’ disasters even more destructive in Africa

When I last wrote about the mega-drought in southwestern North America, we were in “extreme drought.” The rain started toward the end of July, although the drought hasn’t ended. Unfortunatel...

David Brooks: Seeing what must be done when a heart is empty

On Dec. 26, 2004, French author Emmanuel Carrère and his girlfriend were vacationing at a cliff-top hotel in Sri Lanka. Their relationship was dying, and, feeling out of sorts, th...

Dave Marston: If the water disappears, the desert comes back in

Paonia, a small town in western Colorado with mesas rising above it, wouldn’t green-up without water diverted from a river or mountain springs. The lively water travels through irrigation di...
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