The “weird” presidential race in 1892, Jon Grinspan writes, “has a message for all those planning to hit snooze on the coming campaign: Great political change can unfold when the political system seems woefully stalled.”

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“Property taxes, the lifeblood of local governments and school districts, are one of the most powerful and stealthy engines of racism and wealth inequality our nation has ever produced,” Andrew Kahrl writes.

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”When it comes to Donald Trump, House Republicans do a convincing pantomime of love,” Frank Bruni writes. “But there’s heartache underneath. Misery, even. That’s the truth of the Trump era, and that’s the moral of the 2024 exodus from Congress.”

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Political boredom can open up the world, Jon Grinspan writes.

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“Members of Congress are arguing that we must turn away from spending more money to help Ukraine, choosing instead to focus on our own needs, pursuing our own interests,” writes Dan Coats. “This is a false choice.”

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Many parents said that “even when they asked district leaders how much time kids were spending on their screens, they couldn’t get straight answers,” writes Jessica Grose. “No one seemed to know, and no one seemed to be keeping track.”

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The new film “Civil War,” writes Stephen Marche, is a necessary warning to a nation on the brink. “Stories can wake us up to the threats we are facing. The greatest political danger in America isn’t fascism, and it isn’t wokeness. It’s inertia.”

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The very high stakes of failing to help Ukraine, by Dan Coats.

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Despite powerful reasons to stand down, “Israel must take Rafah if it wants to demolish Hamas as a military and governing organization. And for Israel, that potential outcome outweighs the many risks,” Benny Morris writes. Read: nyti.ms/3JjpILO

What Larry David revealed about the secret rules of life.

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“The side effects to achieving weight loss with these drugs sometimes make the dieter feel miserable enough to come off them. Then what? Go back on again? We already know yo-yo dieting is harmful to the body.” #NYTLetters

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These nine men voted for Biden in 2020. How do they see him now?

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Israel’s security depends on Rafah, by Benny Morris. Read: nyti.ms/49uuS2l

Happy 20th anniversary, Gmail. I’m sorry I’m leaving you.

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“It’s not just out-of-control A.I. that poses a threat,” David Wallace-Wells writes. “Under-control systems can do harm, too.”

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Europe is making progress on gender medicine. The U.S. should catch up.

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Donald Trump “failed spectacularly as an insurrectionist and as a disrupter of the civil service, and his clownish and chaotic style may well lead to failure again,” Caroline Frederickson writes. But where he succeeds is “the art of the steal.”

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For Muslims, it's hard to celebrate this Eid.

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The captivity of abortion opponents to the character of Donald Trump isn’t about his specific policy stances, Ross Douthat writes; it’s “about the ways in which a Trumpist form of conservatism seems inherently to make Americans more pro-choice.”

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