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Opinion | There Is No Happy Ending to America’s Trump Problem

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Damon Linker Mr. Linker, a former columnist at The Week, writes the newsletter “Eyes on the Right.” Debate about the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence has settled into well-worn grooves. […]

Opinion | The Water Crisis in the Southwest

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “The Coming Crisis on the Colorado River,” by Daniel Rothberg (Sunday Opinion, Aug. 7): The difference between 33 degrees Fahrenheit and 31 degrees Fahrenheit […]

Opinion | How Some Subsidies in the Climate Bill Keep Oil and Gas Alive

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Charles Harvey and Kurt House Dr. Harvey is a professor of environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. House is the chief executive officer of KoBold Metals, a metals […]

Opinion | The Most Productive Dysfunctional Congress Ever

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Farah Stockman Ms. Stockman is a member of the editorial board. In March, Congress overhauled the U.S. Postal Service, which had been on the brink of insolvency for years. In June, […]

Opinion | The Climate Bill Isn’t Perfect, but It’s Still a Major Victory

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Jody Freeman Ms. Freeman is a professor at Harvard Law School, where she teaches environmental and administrative law. She was counselor for energy and climate change in the Obama White House […]

Opinion | Science Is Still in a Race Against the Coronavirus

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By David Quammen Mr. Quammen is a science writer and the author of the forthcoming book “Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus.” The Covid-19 pandemic has been a lesson […]

Opinion | This Is Why Peter Meijer Lost?

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Katherine Miller Ms. Miller is a staff writer and editor in Opinion. Last year Peter Meijer, the Michigan representative who voted to impeach Donald Trump and just lost his re-election primary […]

Opinion | It’s Been a ‘Summer of Disaster,’ and It’s Only Half Over

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By David Wallace-Wells Opinion Writer “We’re naming summer ‘Danger Season’ in the U.S.,” wrote Kristy Dahl, the principal climate scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists, in early June. A couple of […]

Opinion | A Cynical Low for the Democratic Party

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of Opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. On […]

Opinion | Can Inflation Reduction Save the Planet?

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist After all the false starts and dashed hopes of the past two years, I’m reluctant to count my chickens before they’ve actually been signed in the Oval […]