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Guest Essays
This Is BYD, the Chinese Car That’s Taking Over the World
China’s national champion carmaker BYD embodies a state-led industrial model tha...
John Bolton: Trump’s Work in Iran Has Only Begun
It remains to be seen if Washington has learned enough of a lesson to destroy Ir...
This Is the Birthright Reckoning That America Needs
What does it mean to be an American?
Trump’s True Colors, Revealed
Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is not populism.
Why We Couldn’t Sell America on U.S.A.I.D.
The end of the federal agency gives us a final lesson about the importance of te...
Four of the Worst Parts About the Republican Megabill
It is wildly regressive. And when voters learn what it does — even Republican vo...
Sending Troops to Quiet Protests? Ask King George How T...
That escalated quickly.
Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos and the Triumph of Tacky
In the wake of President Trump’s second election, it’s the luxe life at full vol...
What Bombs Can’t Do in Iran
While foreign wars may expose autocratic fragility, they rarely create the condi...
‘Tasteless, Hideous and Repulsive’: Trump Wants You to ...
The last thing American consumers need is a revitalization of Florida’s witherin...
Swimming in New York’s Public Pools Is a Unique Pleasure
There’s nothing quite like swimming with dozens of strangers — a joy that takes ...
For Trump, Investigations Are the Real Punishment
The process is the penalty, and the penalty is the process.
We Don’t Have to Give In to the Smartphones
They haven’t defeated us. Yet.
How the N.B.A. and M.L.B. Shattered America’s Sports Cu...
The major sports leagues are destroying one of our few remaining sources of shar...
Seven Hidden Ways Trump’s Megabill Would Remake America
The Trump administration and its allies have worked hard to conceal the true imp...
The Subversive Joy of BookTok
Download a novel. Lose yourself in an absurdist plot — not because it’s noble, p...