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A Francis Admirer and a Francis Skeptic Debate the Pope’s Legacy

admin25 April 2025

The challenges for Catholicism in the modern world.

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The Left Keeps Getting It Wrong on Crime

admin25 April 2025

After sharp spikes in homicides and other offenses, which sparked fears of a return to the bloody New York of the 1990s, major crime in New York City has headed toward historic lows. In New York and throughout the country, that rise in crime since ...

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The Anti-Woke Right Has a Lot to Answer For

admin25 April 2025

You’re reading the David French newsletter, for Times subscribers only. Reflections on law and culture, war and peace, and the deeper trends that define and divide America. Get it with a Times subscription.What if you created a movement that ...

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Lydia Polgreen on What’s Missing in Our Conversation About Immigration

admin25 April 2025

And what happens when your country becomes a place people no longer want to come to.

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Mike Patrick, Voice of Sunday Night N.F.L. Games on ESPN, Dies at 80

admin25 April 2025

He did the cable network’s play-by-play for college basketball, football and baseball games, but his most important assignment was “Sunday Night Football.”

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The World Seems to Be Surrendering to Climate Change

admin25 April 2025

The scope of President Trump’s assault on the country’s climate ambitions, over just three months, is not just enraging but also perversely awe inspiring. In the run-up to the November election, conventional analysis suggested that a Trump victory ...

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How I Describe Myself Politically These Days

admin25 April 2025

I struggle these days whenever someone asks me for my political affiliation. But if you really force me, I’d describe myself as a “Waymo Democrat.” Waymos are the self-driving electric taxis started by Google. My party’s bumper sticker would read, “A ...

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A Republican Senator Says It: ‘We Are All Afraid’

admin25 April 2025

More from our inbox: Private Prisons for ImmigrantsToo Much NoiseSenator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, in the Capitol earlier this year.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York TimesTo the Editor: Re “A Startling Admission From a G.O.P ...

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A Roman Gladiator and a Lion Met in Combat. Only One Walked Away.

admin25 April 2025

Gladiators battled lions and other wild animals in the arenas of the Roman Empire. But for all the tales of glorious combat depicted in ancient texts, marble reliefs and mosaics and then retold in movies and other modern media, archaeologists have ...

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Karen Durbin, 80, Dies; ‘Fearless’ Feminist Who Edited The Village Voice

admin25 April 2025

A fierce advocate of sexual liberation, she pushed the alternative weekly to cover women’s issues, as well as gay rights and avant-garde culture.

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