Times Commentary
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Opinion: Elon Musk’s DOGE implements Project 2025, endangering Americans’ safety
With President Donald Trump's blessings, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has been poking around in numerous federal agencies with a mission to cut fraud and waste from government bureaucracy. That's a worthwhile project.
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Opinion: Measles outbreak was entirely avoidable
A measles outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico has killed a child and sickened more than 130 people, and public health experts fear it's only the beginning.
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Opinion: Has ‘America first’ become America alone?
Article 5 of the NATO treaty is the bedrock of the alliance: It is the pledge that an attack on one is an attack on all.
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Opinion: Authentic advocacy in a culture of disruption
Every new administration, in its own way, brings about change. However, the new administration, elected in part on the promise of disrupting the status quo, is moving swiftly to make sweeping and consequential changes to federal agencies and programs.
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Opinion: Trump’s new deputy FBI director has it out for the ‘scumbag commie libs’
When a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts last year, conservative podcaster Dan Bongino made a veiled threat on social media.
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Opinion: Trump’s actions are a victory for Putin
On the face of it, President Donald Trump is right to try to end a destructive war in Ukraine that is now approaching the three-year mark, and to open talks with Russia.
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Opinion: Overblown fraud at Social Security
Last year, it suddenly fell to me to manage the affairs of a couple of ailing and now deceased elderly people (my parents-in-law).
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Opinion: Here are the digital clues to what Elon Musk is really up to
Watching Elon Musk and his band of young acolytes slash their way through the federal government, many observers have struggled to understand how such a small group could do so much damage in so little time.
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Opinion: Battered Democrats hope to regain focus
Like everyone else in Washington, Democratic Party leaders have been stunned by the speed and the breadth of President Donald Trump's efforts to revamp the federal government.
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Opinion: Not quite a unified theory of Trumpism, but still an alarming pattern
President Donald Trump's second term dizzies many Americans, but I find it oddly familiar – an echo of the time I lived in China as a reporter.
