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  1. Battlefield Picture Worsening for Ukraine as Trump Pushes Peace Plan

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:18:37 -0000

    Russian forces have advanced on several fronts recently. President Vladimir V. Putin signaled after talks with U.S. officials that he was not budging from demands.
  2. Trump’s Security Doctrine Leaves Europe at a Strategic Crossroads

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:22:55 -0000

    A new White House policy document formalizes President Trump’s long-held contempt for Europe’s leaders. It made clear that the continent now stands at a strategic crossroads.
  3. The Supreme Court, Once Wary of Partisan Gerrymandering, Goes All In

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:25:07 -0000

    The court’s conservative majority said that Texas’ asserted political motives justified letting the state use voting maps meant to disadvantage Democrats in the midterms.
  4. Have Trump’s Tariffs Gone as High as They Can Go? Business Hope So

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:34:27 -0000

    A wave of companies are petitioning for exemptions from the Trump administration’s high levies on foreign-made goods, saying they are hurting business and raising prices.
  5. Afrikaner Access Soars Amid Trump’s Policy Shift

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:12:10 -0000

    The white descendants of Europeans who colonized the country are getting greater access to American officials this year, both in Washington and in Pretoria.
  6. Trump Accounts, Baby Bonds: Giving Directly to Kids Is an Idea Right and Left Could Love

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 10:01:48 -0000

    Michael and Susan Dell’s $6.25 billion donation to child savings accounts fits a trend: giving with no strings attached. In some ways, it’s a bipartisan philosophy.
  7. One Step From Citizenship, Some Find It Alludes Their Grasp

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:13:02 -0000

    Sweeping immigration changes by the Trump administration have resulted in the cancellation of naturalization ceremonies, the last step in the process of becoming a citizen.
  8. The Mayor-Elect of New Orleans Is Already Awash in Challenges

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:14:19 -0000

    A month before taking office, Helena Moreno is steering the city through a budget crisis and a Border Patrol enforcement operation that has immigrants in hiding.
  9. Here’s How Trump Has Made It Harder for Migrants Seeking Asylum and Citizenship

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 01:32:25 -0000

    In the wake of the National Guard shooting, the Trump administration has temporarily frozen major pathways for many migrants to obtain legal status in the United States.
  10. Angst Turns to Anger in Hollywood as Netflix Hooks Warner Bros.

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:28:40 -0000

    Much of the entertainment capital fears that Netflix’s deal will lead to more job losses and theater closings and fewer boundary-pushing movies.
  11. What to Know About Netflix’s $83 Billion Deal for Warner Bros. Discovery

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 10:02:25 -0000

    The cash-and-stock deal would give the world’s largest paid streaming service expansive power over theater owners and entertainment-industry unions.
  12. Frank Gehry’s Buildings Sound as Marvelous as They Look

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:35:28 -0000

    Gehry, who died on Friday at 96, made an invaluable contribution to classical music by designing spaces with stunning acoustics.
  13. Frank Gehry: 12 Essential, Stunning Projects

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:54:14 -0000

    A singular genius, Gehry redefined architecture with joyful buildings like the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
  14. Inside the Yearslong Push to Bring the World Cup Final to New Jersey

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:32:26 -0000

    Winning the right to host the world’s most popular sporting event took years of planning, countless Zoom calls and a bit of luck with a broken-down bus.
  15. Pete Hegseth Is Ordering Executions at Sea

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:32:08 -0000

    Did Pete Hegseth break the law after authorizing Venezuelan boat strikes? The Times Opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, argues that there are multiple reasons the strikes were legally dubious.
  16. The Supreme Court Is Failing at Its Most Important Job

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:00:12 -0000

    Until the court imposes limits, the administration will keep acting as if there are none.
  17. Sweet Season

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 11:07:53 -0000

    Rejoice: NYT Cooking’s holiday cookie extravaganza has returned.
  18. How Has Congestion Pricing Changed Your Year?

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:09:16 -0000

    The tolling program, decades in the making, has shown signs of being effective after a rocky rollout.
  19. Survivors of the Deadly Hong Kong Fire Are in Limbo

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:30:26 -0000

    Hong Kong, with some of the world’s highest housing costs and inequality, must now figure out how to help thousands of residents who lost friends, family and homes.
  20. Israel’s Plan to Back Gaza Militias Proves a Risky Gamble

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:26:19 -0000

    Officials said Israel helped arm and back Yasser Abu Shabab’s Popular Forces, part of a strategy against Hamas, before a local clan killed him this week.
  21. Kidney Recipient Dies After Transplant From Organ Donor Who Had Rabies

    Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:37:09 -0000

    Only four donors have transmitted rabies to organ transplant recipients since 1978, according to federal officials.
  22. Savings Accounts for Disabled People Are Expanding. Do You Qualify?

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:00:06 -0000

    Starting next year, people who became disabled by age 46 will be eligible to open ABLE accounts. The accounts have been slow to catch on, partly because the current age limit is 26.
  23. War Is Peace, the Dozing Don Edition

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:37:11 -0000

    The outcry grows over Trump's undeclared war in the Caribbean.
  24. A Very Big Fight Over a Very Small Language

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel over identity, belonging, and the sound of authenticity.
  25. When Participating in Politics Puts Your Life at Risk

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    During the Trump era, political violence has become an increasingly urgent problem. Elected officials from both parties are struggling to respond.
  26. How the Sports Stadium Went Luxe

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Is the race to create ever more lavish spectator offerings in America’s largest entertainment venues changing the fan experience?
  27. One of the Greatest Polar-Bear Hunters Confronts a Vanishing World

    Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    In the most remote settlement in Greenland, Hjelmer Hammeken’s life style has gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive him.
  28. Mikie Sherrill Intends to Move Fast

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Sherrill, the governor-elect of New Jersey, argues that if Democrats don’t learn to work at Donald Trump’s pace, “we’re going to get played.”
  29. What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year

    Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    When Dragon Bravo ignited, in Grand Canyon National Park, officials decided to let it burn. Then the fire spread out of control.
  30. The Dishonorable Strikes on Venezuelan Boats

    Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:08:32 -0000

    New reporting suggests that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated multiple rules of war.
  31. The Undermining of the C.D.C.

    Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The Department of Health and Human Services maintains that it is hewing to “gold standard, evidence-based science”—doublespeak that might unsettle Orwell.
  32. The Legal Consequences of Pete Hegseth’s “Kill Them All” Order

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:57:57 -0000

    A former military judge on the Trump Administration’s contradictory—and likely unlawful—justifications for its Caribbean bombing campaign.
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. What Can Economists Agree on These Days?

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    A new book, “The London Consensus,” offers a framework for rethinking economic policy in a fractured age of inequality, populism, and political crisis.
  37. The N.B.A.’s Breakneck Momentum

    Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Are the higher speed and intensity that have made the game so fun to watch the very forces that are sidelining its stars with injuries?
  38. Jeffrey Epstein, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the Future of American Politics

    Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Life after Trump may not be what we expect.
  39. The Odd, Shifting Role of the N.F.L. Punter

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    He is the vestigial organ of a football team, a remnant of the time before the forward pass. And yet, now and again, he can be vitally important.
  40. Building a State of Fear in “Extremist”

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Alexander Molochnikov’s short film reinterprets an act of protest that called attention to the invasion of Ukraine, and led to the imprisonment of Sasha Skochilenko, a young Russian artist, in 2023.
  41. What are Putin’s Ultimate Demands for Peace in Ukraine?

    Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The Trump Administration has claimed that it’s nearing a deal to end the war, but, for now, the conflict’s essential impasse still holds: Moscow won’t accept what Kyiv can stomach.
  42. Ukrainian Men Approaching Military Age Are Fleeing in Droves

    Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:53:52 -0000

    A new policy has led to an exodus of male citizens. Will they return if the war ends?
  43. Big Apple Jackpot

    Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Inside the fight to bring casinos to New York City.
  44. For Trump, “Fostering the Future” Looks a Lot Like the Past

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    By putting the religious rights of potential foster parents above the civil rights of L.G.B.T.Q. youth, a new executive order reënacts the original sin of the child-welfare system.
  45. The Justice Department Hits a New Low with the Epstein Files

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Not only is the department’s behavior not normal; it is also, as is becoming increasingly clear, self-defeating.
  46. 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.
  47. 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.