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September 23, 2026

Javier Jaén

Notable

Not blue. Not red. Is an independent wave forming? “Politicians on both sides of the aisle have reached the same conclusion: The two-party structure is broken.”

David Kirp, a professor emeritus of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley

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Democrats need to rethink their approach to Palestinians. “Democrats should not excuse Hamas’s crimes. But they should, finally, treat Israelis and Palestinians the same way.”

— Peter Beinart, a contributing Opinion writer

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Kennedy’s anti-vaccine legacy will outlast this administration. “Perhaps realizing that it’s difficult to fully block Americans from attaining the basic set of childhood vaccines, and that those vaccines remain popular, the administration has settled on partisan attacks, general chaos and conflicting messaging to continue undermining the public’s trust in one of the most effective disease-preventing tools we have.”

— Jessica Grose, an Opinion writer

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Spotlight

Jamie Lee Taete for The New York Times

MrBeast and Rajiv Shah: We’ve Seen What Video Can Do. Let’s Use It for Good.

Video can help charity keep up with a changing world.

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An Opinion Conversation

The Opinion writers Michelle Cottle, Tressie McMillan Cottom and Jessica Grose will be live on Reddit to discuss the past, present and future of conservative women on Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. E.D.T.

Submit your questions and topics beforehand here, and join the conversation.

ICYMI

He was The Times’s Moscow bureau chief. My grandmother was his censor. “She censored like her life depended on it, because it did.”

— M. Gessen, an Opinion columnist

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The New York Times The Ezra Klein Show Jensen Huang vs. the A.I. Doomers Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, does not want you to be afraid of A.I. 1 HR 47 MIN LISTEN

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Jamelle Bouie New Matrix, Meet the Old Matrix The railroads were once the octopus that A.I. is now. By Jamelle Bouie

Guest Essay For Trump and Xi, There Is Only One Way Forward Neither the United States nor China can bend the other to its will, and it’s time for them to settle for a durable détente. By Jessica Chen Weiss

Thomas L. Friedman It’s Time to Cry Wolf Over A.I. It’s not too late to avoid the potential disasters of A.I. that Covid-19 and 9/11 taught us how to prepare. By Thomas L. Friedman

Guest Essay Hollywood Surrenders There’s no sense of triumph or even defeat, merely numb exhaustion. By Sharon Waxman

W.J. Hennigan Iran Exposed How Vulnerable Our Bases Are The Pentagon must revamp how it positions its troops and equipment amid the proliferation of low-cost drones and precision missiles. By W.J. Hennigan

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