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September 8, 2025, 4:39 p.m. Eastern time

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The Ezra Klein Show

Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

Democrats aren’t powerless, and they don’t have to enable autocracy.

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Jessica Grose

A Small but Telling Moment in Kennedy’s Hearing

Unlike his combative exchanges with senators about vaccines, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was conciliatory and accommodating about agriculture interests.

David Brooks

Why I Am Not a Liberal

I don’t think the left grasps reality in all its fullness.

Oren Cass

This Is the Moment We Find Out if Trump Is for Real

What comes next?

Maureen Dowd

Men + Women + Apps = Bad Romance

The two sexes are looking past each other.

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