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Why Do Movies Keep Repeating the Same Joke About the Afterlife?

From the recent ‘Eternity’ to classics like ‘Defending Your Life’ and ‘Beetlejuice,’ the gag remains the same: What if the next world worked just like this one?

https://www.nytimes.com/by/scout-brobst · Dec 17, 20252 reads
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Opinion | Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me

There’s no getting around this if we want to avoid the deficit cliff ahead.

https://www.nytimes.com/by/mitt-romney · Dec 19, 20252 reads
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‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women

The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency.

https://www.nytimes.com/by/nicholas-confessore · Dec 18, 20252 reads
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Trump Pressed Georgia Speaker to Overturn State’s Election Vote in 2020 Call

During much of the 12.5-minute call, President Trump reiterated his claims that he had won Georgia, a state he lost by more than 11,000 votes that year.

https://www.nytimes.com/by/richard-fausset · Dec 18, 20251 reads
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Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV

The first rule of dark money is to quit blabbing about it. Did they think people would thank them for it?

https://www.nytimes.com/by/michael-hirschorn · Dec 14, 20251 reads
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Opinion | The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing

Why are the Supreme Court and Congress conspiring to give him more power?

https://www.nytimes.com/by/jamelle-bouie · Dec 17, 20251 reads
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Opinion | We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated (Published 2019)

The president and his enablers have replaced conservatism with an empty faith led by a bogus prophet.

George T. Conway IIISteve SchmidtJohn Weaver and Rick WilsonThe authors have worked for and supported Republican campaigns. · Dec 17, 20191 reads
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Opinion | I’m 62. Stop Telling Me I’m Old.

Ken Stern on why Americans should stop classifying 65 as “old.”

https://www.nytimes.com/by/ken-stern · Nov 27, 20251 reads
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America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?

From A.D.H.D. to anxiety, disorders have risen as the expectations of childhood have changed.

https://www.nytimes.com/by/jia-lynn-yang · Nov 24, 20251 reads
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Opinion | The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course.

Compared to human drivers, Waymo cars were involved in 91 percent fewer crashes that resulted in serious injuries.

https://www.nytimes.com/by/jonathan-slotkin · Dec 2, 2025
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Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office

President Trump has always used his stamina and energy as a political strength. But that image is getting harder for him to sustain.

https://www.nytimes.com/by/katie-rogers · Nov 25, 2025
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Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions

In interviews with Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, said President Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality,” called JD Vance a “conspiracy theorist” and concluded that Pam Bondi “completely whiffed” the early handling of the Epstein files.

https://www.nytimes.com/by/peter-baker · Dec 16, 2025
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Palo Alto Confronts Billionaires Over Their Housing Compounds

The Silicon Valley college town has changed drastically as Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and other tech founders have scooped up multiple properties.

https://www.nytimes.com/by/heather-knight · Dec 18, 2025
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Why New York Has Backed Off on Addressing Climate Change

With affordability and energy costs looming large as political issues, Gov. Kathy Hochul is less focused on going green.

https://www.nytimes.com/by/james-barron · Dec 15, 2025
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Born to Unwed Mothers, These Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia

A Times investigation found that children are routinely deprived of birth certificates, medical care and education. Diplomats and police officers turned the mothers away.

https://www.nytimes.com/by/vivian-nereim · Nov 10, 2025