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Paul Krugman: Learn to stop worrying and embrace debt

Amid all the wild swings in U.S. politics over the past decade, one thing has remained constant: the GOP position on government debt. The party considers high levels of debt an existential t...

Charles Blow: How Black people learned not to trust government and medical systems

It would appear that the people in American hit hardest by COVID-19 – Black people – are also the group most leery about the prospects of a vaccine. As a Pew Research report publi...

Michelle Goldberg: The MAGA Revolution Devours Its Own

Gabriel Sterling, a Georgia election official and longtime Republican, held a news conference this week in which he excoriated Donald Trump’s lies about voter fraud and the threats of violen...

Thomas Friedman: Dear Joe, Iran is not about the nukes anymore

With the assassination by Israel of Iran’s top nuclear warhead designer, the Middle East is promising to complicate Joe Biden’s job from Day One. President-elect Biden knows the region well,...

Paul Krugman: Let’s hear it for Janet Yellen

It’s hard to overstate the enthusiasm among economists over Joe Biden’s selection of Janet Yellen as the next secretary of the Treasury. Some of this enthusiasm reflects the groundbreaking n...

Maureen Dowd: The Lady and the Trump

I’ve been riveted all week by the spectacle of the most famous blond phenom on the planet, a child isolated and miserable living inside a national landmark, lashing out and spiraling into se...

Maureen Dowd: The L:ady and the Trump

I’ve been riveted all week by the spectacle of the most famous blond phenom on the planet, a child isolated and miserable living inside a national landmark, lashing out and spiraling into se...

Deeper conversations make for more intimacy

C.S. Lewis once wrote that if you’d never met a human and suddenly encountered one, you’d be inclined to worship this creature. Every human is a miracle and is your superior in some way. The...

Third term of the Obama presidency

Barack Obama – his policies and his posture – just won a third term. Joe Biden will be president because of his close association with Obama, because he espoused many of the sam...

Bret Stephens: On the compromises that are fatal to liberalism

In January, in what now seems like a bygone age, writer George Packer delivered a memorable speech, “The Enemies of Writing,” for the honor of winning the Hitchens Prize. “Why is...

Bret Stephens: How the Times lost its way on the 1619 project

If there’s one word admirers and critics alike can agree on when it comes to In some ways, this ambition succeeded. The 1619 Project introduced a date, previously obscure to most Americans...

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 ...