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No Wonder the Republicans Hid the Health Bill
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
When House leaders finally unveiled their plan, the suffering it would inflict on millions of Americans was clear. Comments
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How Republicans Plan to Ration Health Care
By EZEKIEL J. EMANUEL, AARON GLICKMAN and EMILY GUDBRANSON
States will be forced to decide between saving lives and caring for the elderly. Comments
Andrew Holder
FRANK BRUNI
Ben Carson’s Gray Matter
The good doctor’s precision with words isn’t exactly surgical. Comments
ROSS DOUTHAT
Why Republicans Can’t Do Health Care
A party divided against itself without a president to lead it forward. Comments
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Peanut Butter on the Trump Team’s Chins
The president’s apologists are embarrassing. Comments
SYLVIE KAUFFMANN
France Braces for the Now-Possible Impossible
Can Marine Le Pen be stopped, and with her the trans-Atlantic onrush of populism?
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Why Women Are On Strike
By PHOEBE LETT
Strikers on Wednesday will protest “an economic system that is rapidly leaving women behind.”
Editorial
Rising Tensions With North Korea
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The nuclear-capable country has taken a number of provocative actions, and it is unclear how President Trump will respond.
Editorial
Mr. Erdogan’s Jaw-Dropping Hypocrisy
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The Turkish president was outraged by Germany’s barring two of his ministers yet he has worked hard to silence a free press at home.
Op-Ed Contributor
Don’t Roll Back the Vehicle Fuel Standards
By JODY FREEMAN
These benchmarks are the most important action the nation has taken to reduce its dependence on oil and address climate change.
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What a Bomb Threat Suspect’s Story Reveals
By DAVID FUTRELLE
It’s not about right or left. It’s about intimate partner abuse.
Op-ED Contributor
Gavin Grimm: The Fight for Transgender Rights Is Bigger Than Me
By GAVIN GRIMM
The Supreme Court may have turned down my case, but the larger movement is very much alive. Comments
Op-ed contributors
Does Feminism Have Room for Zionists?
By EMILY SHIRE
Anti-Israel statements in the International Women’s Strike platform risk alienating some feminists.
Letters
The Travel Ban: An Assault on Islam?
Two readers differ on whether the ban is anti-Muslim. Another is “ashamed that my country is creating such fear and terror” among the undocumented.
Letter
A Trump-Obama ‘Duel’ on Fox News?
A writer who admits to seeing “Hamilton” one too many times suggests squaring off on television over the wiretap charges.
Letter
Transgender Student Dismayed by Delay in Case
A transgender student calls the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear a case on use of school bathrooms “unfathomable.”
Letter
‘Mix Things Up’: Art and Life at the Met
A Met curator gives examples of how the museum has tried to “connect art to life” and “mix things up,” as a Times critic urged.
Letter
Cutting the I.R.S. Budget
Weakening the I.R.S. will encourage tax fraud and reduce treasury funds, a reader warns.
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Long Live Benjamin
By ALLEN HIRSCH
Piero Ribelli
What happens when man’s best friend is a capuchin monkey? Comments
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Good, Bad and Mad: Andrew Rosenthal on the News
By SUSAN LEHMAN
The opinion columnist Andrew Rosenthal on President Trump’s “crumbs of condescension” for Jews, deportation plans, John McCain’s resistance and other news. Comments
PATRICK CHAPPATTE
On Donald Trump’s Wiretapping Allegations
Is anyone watching over the tweeter in chief?
DAVID LEONHARDT
Behold the G.O.P. Civil War on Health Care
Many Republicans have pretended that a magical health plan exists, one that would cover everyone, provide good insurance and cost less money.
On Campus
Discord at Middlebury: Students on the Anti-Murray Protests
“Student protesters were not violating Mr. Murray’s First Amendment rights when they spoke out against him. They were changing the terms of the discussion.” Comments
Op-Ed Contributor
A Lesson Trump and the E.P.A. Should Heed
By WILLIAM D. RUCKELSHAUS
As Reagan learned, the public will not tolerate threats to their health or the environment. Comments
Op-Ed Contributor
The Hard Truth About Refugees
By JAMES TRAUB
Refugees bring with them problems that liberals would do well to recognize. Failing to do so opens the political door to right-wing xenophobes. Comments
Editorial
Smothering Speech at Middlebury
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
All ideas need testing in open debate, or they become mere prejudices.
Vietnam ’67
America’s Case of ‘Tonkin Gulfitis’
By MARK ATWOOD LAWRENCE
The Vietnam War had drastic, negative consequences for the country’s foreign policy. Comments
DAVID BROOKS
What Romantic Regime Are You In?
If the Russian model of love is reckless, the American one involves too much calculation. Comments
Editorial
President Trump’s Blinkered Fiscal Vision
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Excessive tax cuts and smaller social programs will hurt the poor and the working class.
DAVID LEONHARDT
A Public-Health Crisis That We Can Fix
A common cause of death is up 14 percent in two years, and there is only one plausible explanation. But there is also a solution. Comments
Op-Ed Contributor
General Motors: A Brand Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
By JAMIE LINCOLN KITMAN
Selling Opel and the small-car engineering it represents could hurt G.M. in the long term.
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