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Bret Stephens: This Biden blunder alone could sink his chances

If Joe Biden isn’t careful, Donald Trump might have a new nickname for him: “Shutdown Joe” – after the former vice president’s biggest blunder in the campaign thus far. I’m referr...

Farhad Manjoo: How to Fix America: Spend. Spend. Spend.

As a respite from a spring spent under quarantine, my family booked a weeklong vacation last month in a cozy, remote house in the California desert. While the kids cannonballed in...

Ross Douthat: The ghost of contraception pioneer Margaret Sanger

Recently, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York announced that it would remove Margaret Sanger’s name from its Manhattan Health Center. The grounds were Sanger’s eugenic ideas and alliances...

David Brooks: Nonconformity must have a future; we need it

Like other realms, American intellectual life has been marked by a series of exclusions. The oldest and vastest was the exclusion of people of color from the commanding institutio...

Bret Stephens: American crime and the crazy Baltimore model

In 2014, there were 211 homicides in the city of Baltimore. The next year, there were 342, an astonishing increase of 62%. The murder rate has barely budged since. What happened? ...

Michelle Goldberg: Trump’s occupation of American cities has begun

The month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Yale historian Timothy Snyder published the best-selling book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.” It was part of...

Charles Blow: Let’s start calling things by their proper names – like ‘race relations’

Now that we are deep into protests over racism, inequality and police brutality – protests that I’ve come to see as a revisiting of Freedom Summer – it is clear that Donald Trump sees the ac...

Charles Blow: Yes, even George Washington – especially him

On the issue of American slavery, I am an absolutist: Enslavers were amoral monsters. The very idea that one group of people believed that they had the right to own another human ...

Charles Blow: Return of ‘Law and Order’ for blacks and hippies

Recently, Donald Trump stood in the White House Rose Garden and announced an executive order on police reform – a list of minor, unfunded actions that incentivized some changes but mandated ...

David Brooks: How moderates have failed African Americans

We Americans believe in education. We tend to assume that if you help a young person get a good education and the right skills, then she’ll be able to make her way in American society. Oppor...

Bret Stephens: The intellectual cowardice of my New York Times

The recent decision by It is a violation of the principles that are supposed to sustain the profession, particularly our obligation to give readers a picture of the world as it really is. ...

Michelle Goldberg: Surprise! Justice on LGBT rights from Gorsuch

The new season of my favorite television show, “The Good Fight,” begins with the heroine, feminist lawyer Diane Lockhart, awakening in what seems at first like a giddy alternative reality in...