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  1. ‘Fascist’? ‘Communist’? For an Afternoon, Trump and Mamdani Were Just 2 Guys From Queens.

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:05:28 -0000

    Acid insults were set aside as New York’s mayor-elect and the president promoted their shared goals.
  2. The Trump-Mamdani Buddy Movie? It’s Getting Mixed Reviews.

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:22:37 -0000

    Zohran Mamdani and President Trump seemed to cast aside their months of traded insults, a development that seemed good for New York City but odd to some followers.
  3. Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Will Resign in January, After Break From Trump

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 03:26:31 -0000

    Ms. Greene, who was elected in 2020, had positioned herself as a die-hard Trump supporter until a series of recent ruptures with the president, who recently unendorsed her.
  4. Supreme Court, For Now, Keeps in Place Texas Republican-Friendly Congressional Map

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 04:21:20 -0000

    State officials have asked the justices to allow it to use a newly redrawn map for the 2026 midterms, part of a nationwide redistricting push by President Trump.
  5. RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:49:25 -0000

    In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
  6. Sean Duffy Asks Travelers to ‘Bring Civility Back’ to Airports in New PSA

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:11:04 -0000

    The secretary of transportation kicked off a new civility campaign on Wednesday called “The Golden Age of Travel Starts With You.”
  7. As Trump Pushes on Russia-Ukraine Peace Plan, Zelensky’s Options Are Narrowing

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:54:21 -0000

    The Ukrainian president’s options are narrowing as he is confronted with a 28-point proposal drafted by American and Russian envoys.
  8. To Many Ukrainians, U.S. Peace Plan Looks Like ‘Capitulation’

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:23:28 -0000

    While the White House has cautioned that the proposal is still in “flux,” its contours reflect maximalist demands made by Russia throughout the war that Ukraine has consistently rejected.
  9. Lawrence Krauss, Martin Nowak: The Professors Who Stayed Close With Epstein

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:48:47 -0000

    Even as the disgraced financier’s crimes were revealed, newly released emails show how academics at top universities stuck by Jeffrey Epstein, often seeking his help and offering it in return.
  10. How Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza Became Main Characters on Social Media

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 02:27:56 -0000

    Love, politics and ethics collided as Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza went at it in a media sphere that rewards private revelations.
  11. Vanity Fair Is Reviewing Its Ties to Olivia Nuzzi

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 02:04:31 -0000

    The magazine, which recently hired the journalist, said it had been “taken by surprise” by new claims in an essay by her former fiancé, Ryan Lizza.
  12. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Moves to Restrict Muslims, Leaving Some Concerned

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:57:17 -0000

    Two decisions by the Texas governor this week, including directing authorities to investigate an Islamic organization, come as the state sees an increase in anti-Muslim rhetoric.
  13. Texas A&M Wrong to Fire Professor Melissa McCoul Over Gender Lesson, Panel Rules

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 02:52:42 -0000

    The firing put the school at the center of national debates over gender identity and academic freedom. A faculty panel ruled unanimously against the termination.
  14. A War Photographer for Whom the Battle Continues

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:30:12 -0000

    Rockoff, who risked his life to photograph the brutality of the Khmer Rouge, has struggled ever since. Now he says his historic negatives have been taken from him.
  15. Eli Lilly, Drug Maker of Zepbound and Mounjaro, Reaches $1 Trillion in Value

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:25:40 -0000

    The 150-year-old drugmaker is the first company in health care to hit the milestone.
  16. Watch a ‘Wonderful’ Moment From ‘Wicked: For Good’

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:32:53 -0000

    The director Jon M. Chu narrates a sequence from his film featuring Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Jeff Goldblum performing the song “Wonderful.”
  17. What to Know: Trump Labels Nigeria’s Christian Violence a ‘Genocide’

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:49:03 -0000

    There are widespread attacks across the country affecting many religious and ethnic groups. Many of them defy a simple explanation.
  18. At Least 52 Kidnapped From Nigeria School in Second Mass Abduction This Week

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:22:39 -0000

    Students and teachers were taken captive from a Catholic school in the latest in a wave of such attacks in the country.
  19. The Moon Was an Inside Job

    Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:00:05 -0000

    New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun.
  20. Saturn’s Rings Seem as if They’re About to Disappear: Here’s Why

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:01:40 -0000

    During the weekend, the orbits of Earth and Saturn will combine to create an interplanetary optical illusion for anyone with a good telescope and clear skies.
  21. Mamdani’s Surreal Meeting With Trump Is the Latest in a Pragmatic Month

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:30:13 -0000

    Since his election, Zohran Mamdani has made some surprisingly pragmatic or traditional choices — including his surreal meeting with President Trump.
  22. America Is Setting a Trap for Itself

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:28:29 -0000

    The United States, not China, seems determined to upend the global order.
  23. Just Two Guys From Queens

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:16:30 -0000

    Also, Ukraine faces a “difficult choice” on the U.S. peace plan. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
  24. Tyson Foods to Shut Major Beef Facility in Nebraska

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:07:19 -0000

    The processing plant, in Lexington, employs more than 3,000 workers. It is expected to close in January.
  25. How Newsom and Trump Have Made California the Unlikely Center of 2025 Politics

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:13:38 -0000

    Thanks to Newsom, Trump and redistricting, the deep-blue state is in the thick of national politics.
  26. A Colossal, Hidden Pile of Trash Ignites Outcry in Britain

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:38:01 -0000

    The discovery of a mountain of garbage near a highway is the latest example of what experts say is a growing problem of criminal organizations profiting from illegal dumping.
  27. 3 Children Are Injured in Grizzly Bear Attack in British Columbia

    Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:22:22 -0000

    The children were among 11 people who were hurt when a grizzly attacked a school group in a remote part of British Columbia, the authorities said.
  28. Stephen Fry Is Wilde at Heart

    Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The polymathic entertainer has had a lifelong bond with the wittiest—and the most tortured—of writers. And now he’s starring in “The Importance of Being Earnest.”
  29. Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal Energy

    Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    It used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland. But new approaches may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution.
  30. Kash Patel’s Acts of Service

    Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The F.B.I. director isn’t just enforcing the President’s agenda at the Bureau—he’s seeking retribution for its past investigations of Donald Trump.
  31. The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star

    Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    As af Klint’s fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her name.
  32. A Startup’s Bid to Dim the Sun

    Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:15:47 -0000

    The gloomy arguments in favor of solar geoengineering are compelling; so are the even gloomier counter-arguments.
  33. The Sikh-Separatist Assassination Plot

    Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:17:52 -0000

    A murder in Canada and an attempted one in New York suggest a transnational campaign of violence that has imperilled Indian diplomacy with the West.
  34. The Most Dangerous Genre

    Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Our obsession with deadly game shows—from “The Running Man” and “Squid Game” to MrBeast’s real-life reënactments—reflects a shift in the national mood to something increasingly zero-sum.
  35. The Darkest Thread in the Epstein E-mails

    Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:36:22 -0000

    Donald Trump occupies a kind of negative space in the available files, which run an enervating gamut from the inane to the depraved.
  36. How M.B.S. Won Back Washington

    Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:43:55 -0000

    After the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi leader became a pariah. He’s been slowly rehabilitated, and is now being celebrated in the Oval Office.
  37. How the Conflict in Sudan Became a Humanitarian Catastrophe

    Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    After a coup devolved into open warfare, countries across the region have pursued their own policy and commercial interests by backing one side or the other.
  38. What the Democrats’ Good Night Means for 2026 and Beyond

    Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:05:20 -0000

    The senior elections analyst at RealClearPolitics on what the Party might’ve learned, and how the electorate is changing.
  39. Why Biden’s White House Press Secretary Is Leaving the Democratic Party

    Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:31:19 -0000

    Karine Jean-Pierre feels that Democrats were so mean to Biden that she is becoming an Independent.
  40. Nick Fuentes Is Not Just Another Alt-Right Boogeyman

    Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:18:41 -0000

    The rise of the white-nationalist streamer should worry us even more than it already does.
  41. Donald Trump Can’t Dodge the Costly K-Shaped Economy

    Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    John Cassidy writes that, after Trump insisted that his tariffs weren’t raising prices, he has virtually admitted the opposite by moving to scrap the duties on certain foodstuffs.
  42. The New New England Patriots

    Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The team lately seems to have found that elusive balance of confidence and calm, accountability and community. Where did it come from?
  43. Socialism, But Make It Trump

    Mon, 10 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around.
  44. Dick Cheney’s Long, Strange Goodbye

    Thu, 20 Nov 2025 23:51:38 -0000

    On seeing Rachel Maddow at the former Vice-President’s funeral, while Donald Trump threatened Democrats on social media with death by hanging.
  45. A Development Economist Returns to What He Left Behind

    Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Paul Collier spent decades studying the poorest countries on earth. Now he advises struggling towns in the place where he grew up.
  46. The Meaning of Trump’s Presidential Pardons

    Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The President granted two hundred and thirty-eight pardons and commutations in his first term; less than a year into his second, he has issued nearly two thousand.
  47. The Mystery of the Political Assassin

    Sat, 15 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Even in cases like Luigi Mangione’s, the intentions of assassins are dwarfed by the meanings we project onto them.
  48. The Liberal Scholars Who Influenced Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship

    Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:10:29 -0000

    The President’s executive order took inspiration from an esoteric legal argument from 1985, by two Yale professors. They have some regrets.
  49. The Epstein Scandal Is Now a Chronic Disease of the Trump Presidency

    Thu, 13 Nov 2025 23:41:42 -0000

    Read the e-mails—this isn’t going away anytime soon.
  50. Texas’s Water Wars

    Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    As industrial operations move to the state, residents find that their drinking water has been promised to companies.
  51. The Mess at the BBC Will Never End

    Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The public broadcaster desperately needs the public to believe in it. Between its own stumbles and ceaseless right-wing hostility, it is in danger of losing its way.