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“The idea that billionaires should pay a minimum amount of income tax is not a radical idea,” writes Gabriel Zucman.
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U.S. and Saudi negotiators are nearing a deal for a mutual defense treaty and aiming to normalize Saudi-Israel relations. But Netanyahu is an obstacle, Thomas L. Friedman writes.
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Why do “popular uprisings so often backfire?” David Brooks asks. “If We Burn,” a new book by Vincent Bevins, investigates 10 protest movements between 2010 and 2020, which may shed light on the current unrest on U.S. college campuses.
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When Drew Barrymore asked Kamala Harris to be the country’s “Momala,” she seems to have had good intentions, Charles M. Blow writes. “But she did so with a historical blindness that America often demonstrates when talking about Black people.”
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“Are you better off than you were four years ago?” the famous question goes. It's often used in support of Donald Trump, Paul Krugman writes, “but if you take the question literally, the answer is almost ludicrously favorable to President Biden.”
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Chris Christie and Bill Barr have some explaining to do, by Frank Bruni.
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“There are circumstances in which removing the encampments is necessary to ensure equal access to campus. These are legal responsibilities that the university has,” David French says in this audio essay on the role of colleges in campus activism.
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“We’ve seen one distinct trend line for R.F.K. Jr. in 2024, and that is downward,” Lis Smith, a senior member of the Biden campaign’s war room targeting third-party candidates, tells Michelle Cottle.
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Donald Trump “may pose a threat to our political system as it now exists, but it is a threat animated by a democratic spirit,” Matthew Schmitz writes.
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If you think Donald Trump is unfit to be president, as Chris Christie said recently, the smart way to bar him from the White House is to vote for Joe Biden, Frank Bruni writes. “‘None of the above’ isn’t a principled stand. It’s a moral cop-out.”
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“It’s unbearable to watch the wrong-turn activism turn people away from the rightness of this justified protest.” #NYTLetters nyti.ms/3JFKkhM