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Make the Grammys More Like the Oscars

By MIKE DOUGHTY

In addition to performances by Adele and Beyoncé, the awards show should highlight lesser-known artists.

Editorial

A Rare Republican Call to Climate Action

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

A carbon tax proposal from party elders offers an opportunity to change the conversation on global warming. comment icon Comments

CHARLES M. BLOW

The Power of Disruption

Students protesting in New York last week.

History shows that it works. comment icon Comments

PAUL KRUGMAN

Ignorance Is Strength

President Trump before a press conference with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, at Mar-a-Lago.

What they don’t know can hurt them, but also us. comment icon Comments

RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN

LSD to Cure Depression? Not So Fast

This fad is a large, uncontrolled social experiment with a street drug.

MUSTAFA AKYOL

What Jesus Can Teach Today’s Muslims

Don’t imitate the West and don’t retreat into rigid fundamentalism.

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Haunted by Student Debt Past Age 50

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

The government should do more to help people 50 and older who are still paying off student loans, some with garnished Social Security benefits.

Editorial

Australia’s Grim Toll in the Church’s Sex Abuse Scandal

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Cardinal George Pell after meeting with victims and their families in Rome last year.

A haunting subtext is the culpability of bishops who did nothing to help abused children.

The Stone

Unraveling Love Stories

By GABRIEL ROCKHILL

Crises and breakups can force us to become the authors of our own lives. comment icon Comments

Op-Ed Contributor

Why Saying ‘Radical Islamic Terrorism’ Isn’t Enough

By RICHARD STENGEL

President Trump has abandoned the Obama administration’s name for the fight against ISIS. But he shouldn’t abandon the underlying strategy. comment icon Comments

Op-Docs

Ten Meter Tower

By MAXIMILIEN VAN AERTRYCK and AXEL DANIELSON
Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson

Would you jump? Or would you chicken out? comment icon Comments

Editorial

In Peril at Oroville Dam, a Parable on Infrastructure

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Water flowing Saturday over the emergency spillway, bottom left, of the Oroville Dam in California.

Warnings of the current threat were ignored, as have many warnings about our crumbling public works.

Editorial

The Latest Voter-Fraud Lie

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
A polling place in Manchester, N.H., on Election Day.

Donald Trump won the election, but he and his administration continue to spread untruths about illegal voting.

PATRICK CHAPPATTE

Trump vs. the Judges, Part II

A federal appeals panel upheld the freeze on the president’s ban on travel into the United States from seven Muslim-majority nations.

President Xi Jinping of China in Lima, Peru, last year. The fact that President Trump and Mr. Xi had not talked since Mr. Trump took office in January had drawn increasing scrutiny.
Letter

Trump’s China Reversal: A Bully Backs Down

A reader suggests that the president easily bullies those weaker than him but “folds like a cheap tent” when he faces someone stronger.

Letter

Mental Health Professionals Warn About Trump

Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals write that “too much is at stake to be silent any longer.”

Letter

Michael Flynn’s Phone Call With Russia

Michael Flynn at the White House on Friday.

A reader wonders whether Michael Flynn spoke to Donald Trump before an improper call to the Russian ambassador.

Letters

When Mom and Dad Help With a Young Adult’s Rent

Readers discuss the racial wealth gap and an inflationary housing market.

Letter

Underpaid Preschool Teachers

The director of a preschool calls on “parents and our society to begin to press for better compensation for early childhood education teachers.”

Letter

Student Loan Repayment

Navient, a loan servicer, says the state of loan repayment has improved.

Letters

Nuclear Arms, in ‘Very Wrong Hands’

Readers write that these weapons are too dangerous to exist.

Op-Docs

4.1 Miles

By DAPHNE MATZIARAKI

In this short documentary, nominated for an Academy award, a coast guard captain on a Greek island is charged with saving thousands of refugees. comment icon Comments

HÉCTOR TOBAR

Latino Americans Pity You, President Trump

A Border Patrol agent at the fence between the United States and Mexico on the outskirts of Nogales, Ariz., last year.

They are strong in the knowledge that the bully’s bluster and lies are designed to hide a sense of inferiority.

Editorial Notebook

The ‘Caddyshack’ President

By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON

President Trump risks national security in the service of his own vanity.

Letter

Cutting at the E.P.A.

Scott Pruitt, President Trump’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, is Oklahoma’s attorney general. In that role, he has led or taken part in 14 lawsuits against the E.P.A.

The Natural Resources Defense Council writes that Scott Pruitt would do lasting damage to environmental protections.

Letter

A Task for Prosecutors

The Institute for Innovation in Prosecution writes that prosecutors need to recognize the potential for redemption.

Letter

Orthopedic Surgeons

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons writes that its members take pride in helping patients.

Letter

New York’s Zeitgeist Eludes Trump

A reader asks, What went wrong in our president’s experience as a lifelong New Yorker?

Editorial

The Rot in French Politics

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Emmanuel Macron at a meeting in Lyon, France, this month. An ardent supporter of the European Union, he quit the Socialist Party last year to launch his own party.

French voters are sick and tired of the self-serving conduct of the political class.

Heng

Heng on Trump’s Asia Policy

What will the new president’s approach mean for China and the rest of Asia?

YI-ZHENG LIAN

China, the Party-Corporate Complex

A salt farm in Shouguang, China. Despite the dismantling of the more than 2,000-year-old state monopoly on salt, all Chinese salt producers are still state-owned.

The Chinese Communist Party has infiltrated the expanding private sector, and now operates from inside more than half of all nonstate firms.

Letters

American Identity

Engraving of a massacre of Indian women and children in Idaho by 19th century white settlers.

Readers discuss how we were led to this point of divisiveness.

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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