Times Commentary
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Opinion: Trump’s scapegoating power grab
Scapegoating is an old ruse of authoritarian leaders to get their followers to support action against the minority scapegoated, or even commit crimes themselves against the scapegoated.

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Opinion: Trump cuts food program — then cuts hunger survey. It’s part of a pattern
President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is anything but for the nation's poorest families.

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Opinion: The real stakes of the shutdown
As Republicans and Democrats trade blame for the government shutdown that began at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, and pundits opine about which side is winning, it is easy to lose sight of the real stakes.

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Opinion: The war on drugs shouldn’t be the military’s fight
The White House is delighting in videos of the U.S. Navy blowing up alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.

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Opinion: Comey indictment plunges the country into a grave new period
The events of the past week in Virginia mark a dark new stage in President Donald Trump's effort to turn federal law enforcement into a personal tool of oppression and vengeance.

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Opinion: How Russia is testing NATO and Trump’s legacy
President Donald Trump insists this isn't his war — that it belongs to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and former President Joe Biden.

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Opinion: Listen to your doctor, not to Trump’s ‘unhinged’ autism nonsense
In the months that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been threatening America's health with his pseudo-science nonsense, the nation could at least hope that he was freelancing.

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Opinion: A new kind of copycat killer
Murder is mimetic.

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Opinion: Escalator and teleprompter humiliate Trump, so Fox News’ Jesse Watters suggests ‘blowing up’ the UN
Bomb the United Nations headquarters. Or maybe gas it. Fox News host Jesse Watters had plenty of ideas about how to punish the U.N. after President Trump's humiliating visit to the organization's New York headquarters Tuesday.

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Opinion: The dark reality behind the Chinese president’s hot mic moment about transplanted organs
During a recent military parade in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Russian President Vladimir Putin was caught on a hot mic saying to Xi Jinping, his Communist Chinese counterpart, "Human organs can be continuously transplanted.
