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The scene in a Beijing park in December. The city’s air quality is routinely rated “very unhealthy.”
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RICHARD CONNIFF

In Beijing, and Washington, a Breath of Foul Air

The Republican crusade against 50 years of environmental regulation is an attack on public health and prosperity. comment icon Comments

Editorial

The Republican Health Care Con

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Trumpcare could be so much worse than Obamacare that it would barely deserve the name insurance. comment icon Comments

FRANK BRUNI

The President Who Buried Humility

Donald Trump’s inauguration heralds a new age of arrogance and says something sad and scary. comment icon Comments

ROSS DOUTHAT

The Tempting of the Media

Journalists prepared for President-elect Donald Trump’s first press conference on Jan. 11.

The traps for the press in the Trump era. comment icon Comments

NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Why 2017 May Be the Best Year Ever

A private effort in Madagascar helps educate children from the streets.

For much of humanity, things keep getting better. comment icon Comments

Maureen Dowd is off today.

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DAVID LEONHARDT

America’s Great Working-Class Colleges

Dozens of colleges are vaulting thousands of low-income students into the middle class and beyond, and yet are being starved of funding. comment icon Comments

Opinion

What We Saw as Trump Took Office

Observations and provocations from our opinion writers in Washington and around the world.

People gathered on Saturday morning for the Women’s March in Washington, D.C.
Editorial

Local Police Need Federal Oversight. Exhibit A: Chicago

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Police tape marked a crime scene in Chicago, in December.

It would be a terrible mistake for the Trump administration to turn a blind eye to illegal police practices.

Editorial

The Limits of Law in China

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Zhou Qiang, the head of the Supreme People’s Court of China, speaking in Beijing last year.

The country’s top judge stuns reformers by speaking out against the movement toward judicial independence.

Opinion

Finding Myself Marching

By ELIZABETH WORD GUTTING
Participants in the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday.

I took for granted the progress my mother’s generation made. comment icon Comments

PETER WEHNER

Why I Cannot Fall in Line Behind Trump

President Donald J. Trump at the inaugural parade near the White House on Friday.

Conservatism is a philosophy, not just a policy checklist.

Opinion

The America We Lost When Trump Won

By KEVIN BAKER
Oliver Munday

Novelists and historians had their own version of American exceptionalism, which the 2016 election destroyed. comment icon Comments

News Analysis

The Internet of Things Is Coming for Us

By WILLIAM NEUMAN and LUIS JAIME CASTILLO BUTTERS

Ancient Moche artists anticipated our most modern fears.

Opinion

Racial Progress Is Real. But So Is Racist Progress.

By IBRAM X. KENDI

What if President Trump does not represent a step back, but a step forward?

Opinion

How to Listen to Donald Trump Every Day for Years

By JOHN McWHORTER
Donald Trump at his inauguration at the Capitol.

We have to stop thinking that what the president says has any deeper significance.

Opinion

The Conversation Placebo

By DANIELLE OFRI

Communication between doctor and patient is one of the best treatment tools we have. And we’re not using it.

Opinion

How Not to Be Afraid

By RACHEL MARIE STONE

I had an apocalyptic evangelical upbringing, a father who told me too much about the Holocaust, and a grandfather who was a neo-Nazi and Jew — and I was terrified.

Exposures

‘A Republic, if You Can Keep It’

By ASHLEY GILBERTSON
Ashley Gilbertson/VII

Photographing Washington the week before the inauguration.

Gray Matter

Does Breast Milk Have a Sex Bias?

By NANCY L. SEGAL and SATOSHI KANAZAWA

Evolution explains why boys and girls may get different nourishment.

Opinion

At the Inauguration With Millennials for Trump

By EMMA ROLLER
Supporters gather on the National Mall for the inauguration of Donald J. Trump.

“I really do hope he does what he’s saying, but I’ve been hearing he’s surrounding himself with swampy people.”

News Analysis

Barnum & Bailey Make Room for a New Ringmaster

By SAM ROBERTS
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephants and performers parade on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in April of 1995.

Like Nero and even P.T. Barnum, Donald Trump will eventually have to deliver bread along with the show.

Opinion

I Went to Aleppo to Study. I Left in a Convoy of Refugees.

By LINA SHAMY
A man carrying the body of his child, who was killed in an airstrike on eastern Aleppo, in 2016.

In the last weeks of the siege, we were desperate for the world to hear and help us.

Letters

Free Markets and Health Care

David Goldman/Associated Press

Readers say the free-market model is not suitable for medical care.

Letter

To Curb Defense Spending

An analyst writes that defense reform will require a fresh look at the Pentagon’s far-flung missions and overpriced weapons programs.

Heng

Heng on the South Korean Scandal

If Choi Soon-sil. President Park Geun-hye’s confidant, is arrested, it will be a milestone in South Korea’s efforts to fight corruption.

Heng

Heng on Trump’s Challenge With China

China sending an aircraft carrier through the waterway that separates it from Taiwan reflects an early foreign policy challenge for Donald Trump.

In Danilovgrad, a town in Montenegro, Serbian supporters made their views known on a billboard in November.
The Public Editor

Trump, Russia, and the News Story That Wasn’t

By LIZ SPAYD

Times editors knew the federal authorities were looking into allegations of ties between Donald Trump and Russia. But they decided not to report it. comment icon Comments

Room for Debate

The Media and Trump

How can journalists do their jobs well in the face of such antagonism?

Room for Debate

Was BuzzFeed Right to Publish the Accusations Against Trump?

Other news outlets had the material, but the contents, which contained inflammatory accusations against the president-elect, are unverified.

What the Marchers in Washington Want

By ANNA NORTH
A scene from the Women's March on Washington.

The women and men who joined the protest in Washington have messages for the new president.

DOUG GLANVILLE

For Baseball’s Hall of Fame, Do Statistics Alone Still Matter?

Vladimir Guerrero, the not-yet-Hall-of-Famer, in 2011.

We have an opportunity now to look for meaning beyond the numbers. comment icon Comments

Editorial

In Chapo’s Extradition, a Lesson for Mr. Trump

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Federal police guard the entrance to the prison where drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was being held.

President Trump would be foolish not to study the results his predecessor achieved through a pragmatic and respectful approach toward Latin America.

Op-Ed Contributor

Why Trumpism May Not Endure

By JOHN HARWOOD

Can Trump reshape the Republican Party to address the concerns of working-class voters? His agenda may be too backward looking to succeed.

Editorial

What the Women’s March Stands For

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Women visited Washington and went sightseeing on Thursday in advance of the march.

Once-mainstream proposals, like protecting constitutional rights and improving safety-net programs, are now the subject of a protest manifesto.

GAIL COLLINS

Trump’s Inauguration Was No Woodstock

President and Melania Trump at the end of the inaugural parade route on Friday.

The planning committee’s prediction was right. comment icon Comments

Editorial

What President Trump Doesn’t Get About America

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

It was already pretty great, despite its flaws, before he took office Friday. comment icon Comments

Letter

Steven Mnuchin’s $100 Million Oops!

Mr. Mnuchin’s omission on a disclosure form does not bode well, a reader writes.

Letters

The Inauguration of President Trump

Donald J. Trump being sworn in as president of the United States.

Some are mournful, others are optimistic. One reader hopes that Mr. Trump will mature into the job as Shakespeare’s Prince Hal did.

Letter

Assessing Sugar’s Risks

A nutritionist suggests a different diet focus.

Op-Docs

For Immigrants, the Threat of Indefinite Detention

By CECILLIA D. WANG
Darren Emerson

It shouldn’t happen in this country. But it often does. comment icon Comments

American Dreamers

Clockwise from top left: Luis Roberto Ursua Briceno; Gloria S. Rinconi; Anayancy Ramos; Nayelli Valdemar

Stories from young people who, under the Obama administration, were spared deportation and permitted to work. Now, their status is in jeopardy.

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