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The risk of nuclear war is often called unimaginable. In fact, it’s not imagined enough.
Read the first essay in a new Opinion series, At the Brink, about the threat of nuclear weapons in an unstable world.
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Americans may think no one is handling the coronavirus worse than President Trump. But
@felipeneto
says President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil is much, much worse.
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“Seriously I can just come out and say it? Call him a liar?” asks
@JonathanPieNews
, a fictional broadcast reporter created and performed by comedian Tom Walker, in a satirical video about Britain’s Prime Minister.
“God bless America.”
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A shift manager at a McDonald’s restaurant in Kansas City, Mo., asks why a company that earned $5.3 billion last year can’t guarantee paid sick leave for all of its workers.
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A shift manager at a McDonald’s restaurant in Kansas City, Mo., asks why a company that earned $5.3 billion last year can’t guarantee paid sick leave for all of its workers.
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On Sunday, Brazilians go to the polls to elect their next president. But at stake is something far more important than the leadership of the largest economy in South America.
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Donald Trump “stands without any real rivals as the worst American president in modern history,” writes the editorial board. Today, we are publishing a special section to remind readers why President Trump is unfit to lead the nation.
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NEW: The New York Times editorial board endorses
@JoeBiden
for president: ”His campaign is rooted in steadiness, experience, compassion and decency"
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"I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second,” Meghan Markle writes about her miscarriage. Today, we are sharing an essay by the Duchess of Sussex about the loss that she and Prince Harry suffered earlier this year.
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Liz Truss will be Britain’s next prime minister — the nation’s fourth in seven years. And she’s inheriting a nation falling apart at the seams.
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"Americans like to boast about being the world leader at everything,” says
@felipeneto
, a Brazilian YouTuber. “But I'm certain that our leader, Jair Bolsonaro, is the worst Covid president in the world."
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The survivors and family members of mass shootings have a message for the leaders of our nation.
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Donald Trump stands without any real rivals as the worst American president in modern history. He is a man unworthy of the office he holds, writes the editorial board.
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New from Jimmy Carter: “I now fear that what we have fought so hard to achieve globally — the right to free, fair elections, unhindered by strongman politicians who seek nothing more than to grow their own power — has become dangerously fragile at home.”
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Happy Birthday, Facebook! 15 years today — and what a rollercoaster it has been. We created a friendship anniversary video for Mark Zuckerberg to mark the day.
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“I want you to know that in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me,” wrote Representative John Lewis, who penned this essay shortly before his death on July 17. We are publishing it today, on the day of his funeral.
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"Israel has the absolute right to live in peace and security, but so do the Palestinians. I strongly believe that the United States has a major role to play in helping Israelis and Palestinians to build that future,” writes
@BernieSanders
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"I joined Nike because I wanted to be the best female athlete, ever. Instead, I was emotionally and physically abused by a system designed by Alberto and endorsed by Nike," says Mary Cain.
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It's not a crime to criticize the president. That’s why we fought a revolution against a mad king.
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What do the school shootings have in common? Guns, yes. But also, boys. It's always boys pulling the triggers.
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“If people saw this, they would stay home.”
Doctors invited
@NickKristof
inside two hard-hit New York hospitals to observe first-hand the fight against the coronavirus.
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Breaking: The New York Times's editorial board has endorsed two candidates (
@AmyKlobuchar
and
@SenWarren
) for the Democratic presidential primary.
#TheWeeklyNYT
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The members of the U.S. women's soccer team should not be paid the same amount as the men's team. They just won the World Cup. They should be paid more.
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The campaign to characterize J.K. Rowling as a transphobe “is as dangerous as it is absurd,” writes Pamela Paul.
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We asked people from around the world to compare their health care system with the American system.
“Skin to skin after a C-section is $39,” says a woman in Japan, reading from a U.S. medical bill. “You need to pay money
to hold a baby?”
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"We journalists should have been tougher on Mr. Trump, questioning his every lie and insult," writes
@jorgeramosnews
. "We should not have let him get away with his racism and xenophobia."
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Using a trove of leaked smartphone location data,
@cwarzel
and
@stuartathompson
identified some of the Capitol rioters.
In this time-lapse animation, smartphones moved from Trump’s rally to the Capitol.
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Before he dropped out of the 2020 race,
@CoryBooker
answered the
@nytimes
editorial board’s question: Who has broken your heart? Read the full transcript:
#TheWeeklyNYT
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"The way people talked about Britney Spears was terrifying to me then, and it still is now," writes
@MaraWilson
, who was an actor from age 5. "Our culture builds these girls up just to destroy them."
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Kremlin-backed millionaires “can rinse their dirty money clean by buying up the most expensive houses in London,” says
@JonathanPieNews
, a fictional newscaster created by the British comedian Tom Walker. “It’s how the U.K. makes money.”
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To Republicans who remain quiet, or tacitly support Trump's immigration ban: history will remember you as cowards.
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Salma Hayek: Harvey Weinstein was a passionate cinephile, a risk taker, a patron of talent in film, a loving father and a monster. For years, he was my monster.
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650+ law professors (and counting) believe Brett Kavanaugh lacks the judicial temperament to be approved to the Supreme Court. Read their letter explaining why.
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The founders of Fusion GPS say there are credible allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia
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We don't often share articles by our colleagues at
@PostOpinions
, but we think it is important that as many people as possible read (and share) this.
What the Arab world needs most is free expression,
#JamalKhashoggi
wrote in a column for us shortly before his Oct. 2 disappearance.
You can find Jamal’s latest column published in print Thursday.
It is up now online:
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In this episode of Trump Bites, Donald Trump’s not-so-secret admiration for Vladimir Putin plays out in a teenager’s bedroom, where the fantasies of this forbidden romance come to life.
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When
@Ocasio2018
asked 15 of her fellow restaurant workers if they had health care and all of them said no, she realized the status quo needed to be challenged.
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There is no choice for those who cherish freedom but to support the protests in Hong Kong, as a bill pending in the United States Congress does
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Why is Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes saying it’s time to break up the company? He explains in this video op-ed.
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"As regrettable as this moment is for the nation, there is no other option but to vote to impeach the president for a second time," writes the editorial board.
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The myth of America as the greatest nation on earth is at best outdated and at worst, wildly inaccurate. If you look at data, the U.S. is really just O.K.
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President Trump seems to have lost interest in creating a federal government
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"Stop sanitizing a tyrannical dictator, argues
@Joannahausmann
in this video Op-Ed. "My country deserves change."
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"Many of the elements that define cinema as I know it are there in Marvel pictures," writes Martin Scorsese. "What’s not there is revelation, mystery or genuine emotional danger. Nothing is at risk."
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The
@Albasheershow
, which is very popular among Iraq's demonstrators, has fueled the protests by engaging young people with the core structures of power in the country through comedy, says
@tirosenberg
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"At the most basic level, Mr. Trump is unfit for office," writes
@WalshFreedom
. And his poor record makes him worthy of a primary challenge.
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I am a Republican presidential elector but I will not cast my electoral vote for Mr. Trump
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“This year has brought so many of us to our breaking points,” Meghan Markle writes. So, this Thanksgiving, “let us commit to asking others, ‘Are you OK?’”
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made a decision to talk about their experience. We “discovered that in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 of them will have suffered from miscarriage,” Meghan writes.
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He lied about a sex tape. He lied about tax rates. He lied about ISIS.
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A 13-year-old who was burned with caustic chemicals while working for Packers Sanitation Services in Nebraska told investigators the accident occurred during a shift that lasted from 11 p.m. to 5 or 7 a.m., a direct violation of multiple federal laws.
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Donald J. Trump is a pathological liar. Say it. Write it. Never become inured to it, writes
@CharlesMBlow
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The single animating principle of everything Paul Ryan did and proposed was to comfort the comfortable while afflicting the afflicted, says
@PaulKrugman
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The Stormy Daniels story isn’t really a sex scandal. It’s a campaign finance scandal, a transparency scandal and potentially part of a national security scandal, argues
@michelleinbklyn
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Judge Brett Kavanaugh should be deeply embarrassed at the way he has arrived at the doorstep of the Supreme Court. He won't be.
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Answering a call last week from The
@BostonGlobe
, The
@NYTimes
Editorial Board is joining more than 200 newspapers, from large metro-area dailies to small local weeklies, to remind readers of the value of America’s
#FreePress
.
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"I never read a page of any school history book about how, in 1921, a mob of white people burned down a place called Black Wall Street, killed as many as 300 of its Black citizens and displaced thousands of Black Americans," writes
@TomHanks
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Hours after the miscarriage, “I lay in a hospital bed,” Meghan Markle writes, “holding my husband’s hand. I felt the clamminess of his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears. ... I tried to imagine how we’d heal.”
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Forcing out a well-performing U.S. attorney, without explanation, on the eve of election, in the midst of investigations known to be irksome to the president, does not reflect a commitment to law enforcement independence, writes
@PreetBharara
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A few lawyers and judges cannot protect the rule of law in Hong Kong against the pressure of a government that does not respect fair play, freedom or democracy, argues Audrey Eu Yuet-mee
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.
@felipeneto
explains why he thinks President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil is the world's worst leader at handling the pandemic
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Trump is lost, wandering in a labyrinth of lies and trying to drag the country in with him
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Scott Warren is facing 20 years in prison. His crime? Providing food and water to migrants in Arizona’s deadliest desert corridor.
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Actress, writer, director
@ambertamblyn
with an Op-Ed in response to being called a liar by actor James Woods. Read:
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When Harvey Weinstein showed up at a bar, comedian Kelly Bachman (
@bellykachman
) couldn't ignore the elephant in the room. Here, she writes about why she spoke up, and why it matters.
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"I’m hard pressed to think of a Supreme Court nominee in modern times who has brought such limited experience to the job," writes Linda Greenhouse of Amy Coney Barrett
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.
@JerrySeinfeld
: "You think Rome is going away too? London? Tokyo? The East Village? They’re not. They change. They mutate. They re-form. Because greatness is rare. And the true greatness that is New York City is beyond rare."
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From a high school freshman who survived the school shooting in Florida: "If you have any heart, or care about anyone or anything, you need to be an advocate for change. Don’t let any more children suffer like we have."
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"Being president should mean you are more accountable, not less, to the rule of law," says
@AWeissmann_
. That's why "the next attorney general should investigate Mr. Trump and, if warranted, prosecute him for potential federal crimes."
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"Harry and Meghan’s act of leaving — two fingers up at the racism of the British establishment — might be the most meaningful act of royal leadership I’m ever likely to see," writes
@afuahirsch
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.
@realDonaldTrump
is currently indulging in some revisionist history. It's hitting a raw nerve, writes Billy Bush.
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"Last month, 21 years after Harvey attempted to rape me, I finally stepped out of the shadows to allow the public to know my name," writes Rowena Chiu
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The New York Times invited Connie Chung into a studio with 10 other Connies named after her. When it was her turn, Connie Koh explained she’d picked the name after college. “You’re an iconic person,” she told Ms. Chung, who had grown teary.
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From the Editorial Board: The real national emergency is President Trump's disregard for the Constitution
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It’s hard to admit defeat. But the voters have spoken, Mr. Trump.
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From a jail cell, Martin Luther King Jr. called out white moderates for sabotaging the civil rights movement
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A group of 14 former heads of the CIA, FBI, Pentagon and Special Operations Command have come to the defense of John Brennan, criticizing President Trump for using security clearances as "a political tool"
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We created a real hotline for a real problem: 1-844-WYT-FEAR (1-844-998-3327). In this satirical infomercial,
@NiecyNash
plays the inventor of a service for white people to call instead of 911.
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“Silence gives you room, it gives you distance, and it lets you look at your experiences more completely,” writes Patti Davis. “Sometime in the years ahead, Harry may look back as I did and wish he could unspeak what he has said.”
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When champion and Olympic runner
@AlysiaMontano
decided to have a baby, she found that her sponsors had no policies on how to handle pregnant athletes — other than to treat it like an injury
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Hillary Clinton didn’t just win the popular vote. She won it by a substantial margin.
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"To come out of this crisis better," writes Pope Francis (
@Pontifex
), "we have to recover the knowledge that as a people we have a shared destination. The pandemic has reminded us that no one is saved alone."
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If the world does nothing to stop the Indian assault on Kashmir and its people, two nuclear-armed states will get ever closer to a direct military confrontation, says
@ImranKhanPTI
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"She is in the over-80 group that is most at risk of dying from infection. I worry a lot,"
@karaswisher
writes about her mother. "But she was not concerned — and it was clear why. Her primary source of news is Fox."
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"If you use history and philosophy as a guide, it's easy to see parallels between Trump's words and those of the most reviled fascists in history. That scares me and it should scare you too." — Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy, Yale
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"The president of the United States is using the influence of our highest office to mount racist attacks on communities across the land," writes
@IlhanMN
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The sponsors of the photo ID law were caught on tape devising a plan to depress the turnout of black voters
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Mahatma Gandhi "had the unique ability to become a bridge between some of the greatest contradictions in human society," says
@narendramodi
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History will not judge congressional Republicans well
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"I had a miscarriage," writes
@meghanmccain
. "I loved my baby, and I always will. To the end of my days I will remember this child — and whatever children come will not obscure that."
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“Affluent liberals tend to be really good at showing up to the marches and talking about how they love equality,” says
@johnnywharris
. “But by their actions, what they’re actually saying is, yes, we believe in these ideals, just not in my backyard.”
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The Brazilian government’s filing of criminal charges against the American journalist Glenn Greenwald is an increasingly familiar case of shooting the messenger and ignoring the message
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"It’s ridiculous that some people think the simple phrase 'Protect Black women' is controversial," says
@theestallion
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