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Schwab: Yes, your Medicaid’s gone but you can gloat over gators

What Trump is taking from the social safety net, he’s adding to the cruelty against working immigrants.

 

French: Supreme Court hits a vile industry with its comeuppance

While disagreeing on the best test, the justices agreed on the threat that porn poses to children.

 

Kristof: Women’s rights effort has work to do in Africa, elsewhere

Girls in Sierra Leone will sell themselves to pay for school. The feminist movement has looked away.

 

Douthat: Conservatives sacrificed own goals to pay for tax cuts

Along with its cuts to Medicaid, long-held GOP priorities were ignored in the Big Beautiful Bill.

Welch: A plan to supply drugs to addicts is a dangerous dance

A state panel’s plan to create a ‘safer supply’ of drugs is the wrong path to addiction recovery.

Dowd: A lesson from amicable Founding Foes Adams and Jefferson

A new exhibit on the two founders has advice as we near the nation’s 250th birthday in the age of Trump.

Saunders: Combs’ mixed verdict shows perils of over-charging

Granted, the hip-hop mogul is a dirtbag, but prosecutors reached too far to send him to prison.

Brooks: AI can’t help students learn to think; it thinks for them

A new study shows deeper learning for those who wrote essays unassisted by large language models.

Polgreen: Sicker, in debt but free of immigrants at Home Depot

Ignore the cuts to Medicaid and tax cuts for rich; we spending billions on detention centers and ICE.

Kristof: Bombing Iran may have set up path for negotiation

Regardless of its effectiveness, what now must follow are talks to end Iran’s push for nuclear weapons.

Schwab: Taking pride in our own independence from tyranny

Many of us are Americans by luck of birth here; real pride requires commitment to democratic values.

Burke: Assessing dangers to democracy, knowing how to respond

In judging a threat consider Trump’s intent and his ability to carry out his intentions.

Dowd: Trump obliterates any sense of reliance on facts, truth

Any attempt to set the record straight is met with charges of having a lack of respect and patriotism.

Saunders: Price to pay for GOP senators who defy the president

Trump wants his Bill Beautiful Bill passed; and soon. Republicans’ future may hinge on it.

Goldberg: Mission not accomplished, but tensions have eased

The damage done to Iran’s nuclear capability isn’t clear, but its intention to build a bomb remains.

Harrop: ‘A lot of Americans are going to die’ because of RFK Jr.

His campaign to complicate Americans’ access to vaccines and discourage research will result in deaths.

Schwab: Take a guess: ‘obliterated,’ ‘degraded’ or ‘delayed’

Bombing Iran could be the best decision Trump has ever made, or, like George Bush’s, another Iraq.

Friedman: If cease-fire holds, Mideast streets will have questions

Iranians, Palestinians and Israelis will all want their leaders to answer: ‘What were you thinking?’

Harrop: With success against Iranian targets, time to step back

Trump’s call to strike was right, as is his declaration to shift the conversation to negotiations.

Kristof: Bombing of Iranian nuclear sites leaves 3 key unknowns

We don’t know how Iran will respond, if the attacks were successful or if they can lead to a new regime.