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How I Describe Myself Politically These Days

admin25 April 2025

I struggle these days whenever someone asks me for my political affiliation. But if you really force me, I’d describe myself as a “Waymo Democrat.” Waymos are the self-driving electric taxis started by Google. My party’s bumper sticker would read, “A ...

A Republican Senator Says It: ‘We Are All Afraid’

admin25 April 2025

More from our inbox: Private Prisons for ImmigrantsToo Much NoiseSenator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, in the Capitol earlier this year.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York TimesTo the Editor: Re “A Startling Admission From a G.O.P ...

The Ugly Historical Echoes of Kennedy’s Comments on Autism

admin25 April 2025

Last week Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held his first news briefing as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, to address a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about rates of autism among children in the United ...

When the Supreme Court Spoke With One Voice

admin25 April 2025

In an extraordinary, if perhaps temporary, rebuke to the Trump administration, the Supreme Court issued an order at around 1 a.m. on Saturday forbidding the government from deporting a group of Venezuelan nationals under the Alien Enemies Act. The ...

The Very American Roots of Trumpism

admin25 April 2025

The Very American Roots of Trumpism The historian Steven Hahn puts Trumpism in the context of America’s long history of illiberalism.Listen · 1 hr 13 minThis is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the ...

After Pope Francis: A Round Table With David French

admin25 April 2025

Three religious thinkers on the state of Catholicism.

Gov. Josh Shapiro: Finding Moral Clarity After an Arsonist’s Attack

admin25 April 2025

I woke up to yelling in the hallway. A few seconds later, there was a bang on the door. It was just after 2 a.m., and a state trooper in the hallway of our private living quarters at the governor’s residence said there was a fire in the building. We ...

Mexico Is Becoming a Beacon

admin25 April 2025

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. We know one type of migration well. It’s millions of people from poorer countries traveling mostly to wealthy countries ...

Trump Wants You to Think Resistance Is Futile. It Is Not.

admin25 April 2025

The American constitutional system is built on the theory that the self-interest of lawmakers can be as much of a defense against tyranny as any given law or institution. As James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, “The provision for defense must in ...

What Happened to the Francis Revolution?

admin25 April 2025

How will history judge Pope Francis’ legacy? It seems reasonable to predict that for many progressive Catholics and others who hoped he would prove to be a revolutionary, his papacy will be remembered as a disappointment. Although Francis ...