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If realized, New York City's Interborough Express train “has the potential to bring together people who might otherwise never come in contact with one another,” Alex Wolfe writes. So he and the photographer Tom Wilson decided to walk the entirety of the future line.

Opinion | New York Is Planning a Train Line to Connect Its Transit Deserts. We Walked All 14 Miles of It.

What would light-rail service change about the space that keeps us apart?

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1h

President Trump “is going after clean energy, and Americans will face higher bills as a result,” the editorial board writes.

Opinion | The Trump Bump on Your Energy Bills

The president is going after clean energy, and Americans will face higher bills as a result.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 3h

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“When we trade durable materials for throwaway ones, we lose not only our health, but also a small part of our humanity, the part that knows how to care for something, maintain it, season it and pass it down,” the chef and TV personality Andrew Zimmern writes.

Opinion | We Need to Ban Nonstick Pans

America will be better off without nonstick pans: healthier, safer and perhaps even more skilled at cooking.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 15h

“Vaccines and vaccine schedules are the products of scientific, peer-reviewed research designed to protect children when they’re most vulnerable,” Daniel J. Levy, a pediatrician, writes in a letter to The Times.

Opinion | Parents, Doctors and Vaccines for Children

Readers respond to a guest essay about vaccine debates. Also: Attorney General Pam Bondi’s performance; wildfire smoke and our health.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 17h

“Students of political theory sometimes define the state as the entity that exercises a monopoly on violence,” David Wallace-Wells writes. “Under Trump, the state seems to want to claim a monopoly on anonymity, too.”

Opinion | ICE May Not Be a Secret Police, but They Sure Look Like One

Authoritarian creep reaches a new phase.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 19h

Obamacare premiums could double for millions of Americans if the law isn’t changed. Neera Tanden walks Ezra Klein through the shutdown’s policy stakes.

Opinion | What the Shutdown Is Really About

Obamacare premiums could double for millions of Americans if the law isn’t changed. Neera Tanden walks Ezra Klein through the shutdown’s policy stakes.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 20h

When green spaces aren’t available for childhood sports, “they don’t just hurt kids who want to play on a team. They also hurt children who want to move their bodies or play a pickup game with their friends without the intrusion of adults,” Jessica Grose writes. “This deficit has lasting effects.”

Opinion | Green Spaces for Kids Shouldn’t Be Political

Public parks are vital for children’s health.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 21h

“When we trade durable materials for throwaway ones, we lose not only our health, but also a small part of our humanity, the part that knows how to care for something, maintain it, season it and pass it down,” the chef and TV personality Andrew Zimmern writes.

Opinion | We Need to Ban Nonstick Pans.

America will be better off without nonstick pans: healthier, safer and perhaps even more skilled at cooking.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 23h

“People often feel nostalgia for their homeland when they are far away.” In Gaza, writes Ghada Abdulfattah, residents feel a longing for the place they once knew — the Gaza destroyed by two years of war.

Opinion | The Gaza I Once Knew Is Gone

After two years of war, one Gazan tells of what was lost.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

“I hate raising my kids in this cultural moment, in which many creative triumphs are treated like branding opportunities and no prominent person ever turns down easy money,” @jessgrose.bsky.social writes.

Opinion | The Benson Boone Crumbl Cookie and Our Ultraprocessed Culture

I want to make it stop, and my earnest admonitions about the emptiness of American materialism are not working.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

President Trump “will fail in remaking American politics if people and institutions coordinate against him, which is why his administration is targeting businesses, nonprofits and the rest of civil society,” Henry Farrell writes.

Opinion | What Civil Society Can Do to Beat Trumpism

People and institutions of civil society must coordinate against him.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

“One way to look at much of the second Trump administration is that it is a recapitulation of some of the worst episodes in the history of the United States,” the columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.

Opinion | The Second Trump Administration Is a Museum of America’s Worst Moments

Remember when Republicans loved small government?

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

What intrigues our columnist Thomas Friedman about the cease-fire plan in Gaza “is that it contains the seeds of what I think is the only possible solution now to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” he says on this episode of “The Opinions.”

Opinion | Tom Friedman on the Only Way to Solve the Israel-Hamas War

Can Donald Trump end the “worst war” with the latest round of peace talks?

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

“Animal research has saved countless lives, but a concerted federal push to reduce its use and support reasonable alternatives is long overdue,” Deborah Blum writes.

Opinion | Trump Is Doing a Good Thing for Lab Animals

Under Trump, the N.I.H. is encouraging alternatives that use human cells rather than dogs, cats and monkeys.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

Even if the war in Gaza ends, “there will then need to be a moment of soul-searching about the collective society’s responsibility for the years of mass killing and displacement,” Mairav Zonszein writes. “Palestinians desperately need this war to end. But so do Israelis.”

Opinion | Israel Cannot Go On Winning Like This

Until the recent U.S.-backed peace deal, Israel has continued to use force without engaging in any viable diplomacy. It must change to save itself.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

“Nothing is guaranteed in politics,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes. “But if a 12-year stint in power doesn’t guarantee lasting influence, a short duration is a really good way to make even the most ambitious and activist agenda evanesce.”

Opinion | An Ideological Revolution Needs 12 Years in Power

The Trump administration has a long way to go.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

While Trump “could prolong the operating lives of some coal plants for a short period,” write Seth Feaster and Dennis Wamsted, “these measures will not reverse the decline of an industry hurtling into economic and technological obsolescence.”

Opinion | Trump’s Coal Plan Is Doomed

Domestic coal can’t compete with batteries, solar and gas much longer.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

“The brazenness of Trump and his MAGA loyalists has turned out to be one ingredient of their power,” Thomas B. Edsall writes.

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

After all, there is “an enemy within.”

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

“In education, like many other areas, one size does not fit all,” Heather Dubrow, an English professor at Fordham, writes in a letter to The Times.

Opinion | Rewriting the Rules of the College Admissions ‘Game’

Readers respond to a guest essay about the broken process of college admissions. Also: What Taylor Swift taught us.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

“Behind the easygoing persona in the viral videos and breezy appearance on ‘The View,’ Zohran Mamdani is running a careful and tightly controlled campaign,” writes Mara Gay.

Opinion | Mamdani’s Charm Offensive and Crash Course in How to Govern

Being mayor of New York City is one of the toughest jobs in politics. One glimpse of how Zohran Mamdani may seek to do it is whom he’s talking to.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

“Can presidents unleash the armed forces on their own people based on facts that they contrive,” asks Stephen I. Vladeck. “The text of the relevant statutes doesn’t answer that question. But our constitutional ideals, to say nothing of common sense, should — and the answer must be no.”

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

“Can presidents unleash the armed forces on their own people based on facts that they contrive,” asks Stephen I. Vladeck. “The text of the relevant statutes doesn’t answer that question. But our constitutional ideals, to say nothing of common sense, should — and the answer must be no.”

Opinion | No, Trump Can’t Order Troops to Wherever He Wants

The president’s claims about cities don’t hold up.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 2d

“Despite a raw vocabulary and some rude provocations,” Pete Hegseth “outlined a nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society,” writes Christopher Caldwell.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech on D.E.I. in the Military Was Actually Pretty Good

Despite some rude provocations, he outlined a nuanced vision of the military.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 2d

“If the war in Gaza ends this week — not a sure thing — it will be followed by a long battle about its lessons,” the columnist Bret Stephens writes. “Here are mine.”

Opinion | Lessons From a Long War

The only viable path to a Palestinian state is an end to the fantasy of Israel’s destruction.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 2d

“The right has systematically undermined the very idea of dispassionate expertise. Now, conservative Zionists are surprised that the resulting chaos has spun out of their control,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.

Opinion | The Right’s Civil War Over Who Really Killed Charlie Kirk

Megyn Kelly knows which way the winds are blowing.