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01/05/2026

Maduro is gone. What comes next in Venezuela matters much more, writes Nathalie Rayes.

Democracy, legitimacy, and Venezuelan self-determination — not force or shortcuts — must shape what comes next.

01/05/2026

My encounter with 3-year-old Frankie is a meditation on age, attention, and the rare relief of being met without expectations, writes Karen Stabiner.

My encounter with 3-year-old Frankie is a meditation on age, attention, and the rare relief of being met without expectations.

01/05/2026

“Bad ideas spewed from Washington at a dizzying rate last year, but even locally, sighs of relief could be heard as reason crept back in and ill-considered plans crept out,” writes Renée Loth.

Bad ideas spewed from Washington at a dizzying rate last year, but even locally, sighs of relief could be heard as reason crept back in and ill-considered plans crept out.

01/05/2026

“Whether or not you’re ready to write, the deadline is coming. That pressure,” writes Jeff Jacoby, “has one overwhelming advantage: It works.”

There’s no point in waiting for inspiration. Ritual or routine won’t unlock it. The ticking clock will.

01/05/2026

“The next governor of deep-blue California could be a Trump-loving Republican,” writes Mariel Garza.

California’s top-two primary makes unlikely outcomes possible — including a GOP advance in a crowded Democratic field. That risk is also its democratic strength.

01/03/2026

Like their 19th-century counterparts, today’s tech titans provide us with innovations that make life both unimaginably better and unthinkably worse, writes Jane Hoffman.

Like their 19th-century counterparts, today’s tech titans provide us with innovations that make life both unimaginably better and unthinkably worse.

01/02/2026

The robber barons are back. Here’s what we should do about it, writes Jane Hoffman.

Like their 19th-century counterparts, today’s tech titans provide us with innovations that make life both unimaginably better and unthinkably worse.

01/02/2026

As President Trump’s America frays, a cross-country drive reveals how ordinary people endure economic upheaval and moral exhaustion, writes Roland Merullo.

As Trump’s America frays, a cross-country drive reveals how ordinary people endure economic upheaval and moral exhaustion.

01/02/2026

If Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. really wanted to get to the nub of the judiciary’s problems, here are a few places to start, writes Kimberly Atkins Stohr.

If past is prologue, John Roberts’s year-end report on the federal courts will ignore that the greatest threat is coming from inside the Supreme Court.

01/02/2026

Backroom deals still decide who runs the Boston City Council, writes Joan Vennochi.

The jockeying for seven votes offers a reminder that informal dealmaking remains central to City Hall politics.

01/01/2026

On loving a home that still fits — and knowing, somewhere in the back of your mind, that it won’t forever. By Elissa Ely.

On loving a home that still fits — and knowing, somewhere in the back of your mind, that it won’t forever.

12/31/2025

As Trump’s America frays, a cross-country drive reveals how ordinary people endure economic upheaval and moral exhaustion, writes Roland Merullo.

As Trump’s America frays, a cross-country drive reveals how ordinary people endure economic upheaval and moral exhaustion.

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