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Aaron Sorkin: How I Would Script This Moment for Biden and the Democrats
The Paley Center for Media just opened an exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of “The West Wing,” the NBC series I wrote from 1999 to 2003. Some of the show’s story points have become outdated in the last quarter-century (the first five ...
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Thomas Neff, Who Turned Soviet Warheads Into Electricity, Dies at 80
An M.I.T. physicist, he engineered an East-West deal that reduced nuclear threats and produced one of the greatest peace dividends of all time.
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Lord Almighty, Joe, Let It Go!
Everyone wants Joe Biden gone. Even the people who don’t want him gone really want him gone. “Everyone’s waiting for Joe,” said one top Democrat. “And he’s sitting at home, stewing and saying, ‘What if? What if? What if?’ We’re doing things the ...
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‘This Is the Pick of a Very Confident Presidential Nominee’: Four Columnists Size Up J.D. Vance
Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists Ross Douthat, David French, Michelle Goldberg and Bret Stephens to discuss Donald Trump’s choice of J.D. Vance as his running mate — why Mr ...
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They Were Told They Were in a Safe Area. Then Came the Missiles.
Survivors of a strike in Gaza on Saturday that Israel said had targeted Hamas’s top military leader described a scene of carnage, with fire, smoke, blood and bodies everywhere.
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This Is How You Know Trump Smells Victory
I’m used to Donald Trump being painfully loud, proudly obnoxious and, well, sort of bonkers. I’m used to alligators-on-the-border Trump, sharks-in-the-water Trump, Hannibal Lecter Trump. I’m not used to the Trump of the past two weeks, who has held ...
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Is Kamala Harris Underrated?
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ If Joe Biden steps aside for the Democratic presidential nomination — still a very big if — the favorite to replace him is Vice President Kamala Harris. In recently leaked post-debate polling from Open Labs, Harris ...
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Here’s What to Know About France’s Snap Election
The far-right National Rally won big in the first round of voting. Just how big will not be clear until after runoffs are held on July 7.
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My Unsettling Interview With Steve Bannon
I felt like I was talking with Leon Trotsky in the years before the Russian Revolution. I was sitting in Steve Bannon’s Washington living room in 2019. His stint in Donald Trump’s White House had ended ingloriously, but he had resumed his self ...
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This Isn’t All Joe Biden’s Fault
What Is the Democratic Party For? Top Democrats have closed ranks around Joe Biden since the debate. Should they?On Thursday night, after the first presidential debate, MSNBC’s Alex Wagner interviewed Gov. Gavin Newsom of California. “You were out ...