Times Commentary
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Opinion: The moment Trump picked Vance foretold all
I'm going to break the boundaries of the prompt and say that the most important — or at least most predictive — day of Donald Trump's second term came before it even began: It was July 15, 2024, the day he announced that JD Vance was his choice for vice president.
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Opinion: Taxpayer money for a church school? We know where that leads
For today's sermon on courage, I would like the church to open their King James Bibles to Matthew 27:24: "When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it."
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Opinion: The real threat behind reopening Alcatraz
President Donald Trump posted Sunday on his Truth Social platform that he's ordered various government agencies to reopen Alcatraz to serve as a symbol of law, order and justice.
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Opinion: What if bureaucracy is … good?
Even in our ultra-polarized era, the public and private sectors seem to have reached a consensus on the common scourge of our time: bureaucracy.
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Opinion: Corporate America owes the rest of us $87 trillion
Most climate-change deniers don't even bother fighting the established science anymore: The planet is warming, human activity is the cause, and we can do something about it if we really try.
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Opinion: Manufactured fear causes real harm
In ancient Rome, Emperor Elagabalus defied gender norms and became a lightning rod for outrage as a result. His persecution and assassination served a political purpose: to divert attention from a crumbling, corrupt empire.
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Opinion: The government’s pronatalism warps family values
Having grown up in a world where overpopulation was touted as an existential threat, I have trouble wrapping my brain around the idea that humanity is now doomed to extinction because people — well, the right kind of people — are failing to procreate.
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Opinion: A close encounter with Trump’s cabinet
We're used to partisan disagreement about Cabinet officials.
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Opinion: There’s no cure for this lunacy
Let's just presume for argument's sake that the Trump administration and its chief flunky at the Department of Health and Human Services are actually serious about identifying a definitive cause of autism by September, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this month.
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Opinion: Ron Johnson’s warped 9/11 history — crazy conspiracy theories should not be part of Senate hearing
The senior senator from Wisconsin, Republican Ron Johnson, is posing fresh questions about the deadliest attack on the United States in history, feeding into paranoid and dangerous conspiracy theories.
