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For an Aquatic Veterinarian, It’s Never ‘Just a Fish’
This article is part of our Pets special section on scientists’ growing interest in our animal companions. Many students begin…
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‘God Help Us’: 12 Writers Rate Biden’s Performance at the First Presidential Debate
Times Opinion asked 12 of our columnists and contributors to watch the presidential debate on Thursday night, assess who won…
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Joe Biden Is a Good Man and a Good President. He Must Bow Out of the Race.
I watched the Biden-Trump debate alone in a Lisbon hotel room, and it made me weep. I cannot remember a…
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Biden Cannot Go on Like This
I’m not sure I’d ever watched Donald Trump lie so incessantly, extravagantly and unabashedly, and that’s saying something. On Thursday…
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Women Must Be Invited to Shape Afghanistan’s Future
In May 2022, nine months after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan, I visited a girls’ secondary school that was…
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The Tiniest Words Generate the Biggest Uproar
As a linguist, I pay close attention to debates about language. But I won’t be telling you anything you don’t…
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How Would You Rate the Presidential Debate?
Our writers and editors are formulating their thoughts on Donald Trump and President Biden’s first debate of the 2024 presidential…
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Biden Ended the Trump Crime Wave
Schedules being what they are, this column was written before the first Biden-Trump debate. So if you’re looking for savvy…
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MAGA Is Not Getting Everything It Wants From the Supreme Court
If you really want to understand the conservative-dominated Supreme Court, it’s important to realize that all the Republican nominees who…
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Jamie Kellner, TV Executive Who Started Fox and WB, Dies at 77
With an emphasis on younger viewers, he established the networks as serious rivals to ABC, CBS and NBC, which had…