NotableAmericans don’t want war with Iran. Trump doesn’t care. “I assume Trump is driven by the same self-aggrandizing impulse that made him slap his name on the Kennedy Center. He wants to put his stamp on the world, to be the president who rid the globe of three regimes that bedeviled his predecessors: Venezuela, Iran and Cuba, which he’s subjecting to a devastating fuel blockade.” — Michelle Goldberg, Opinion columnist ‘Voiceless, powerless and ignored’: Two columnists on Epstein’s victims. “Stop asking quite so much ‘Who is going to suffer consequences?’ and start asking ‘Who is going to get repaired?’ I can’t forget when a group of Epstein’s victims raised their hands when they were asked who among them hadn’t had the chance to tell their stories to the Justice Department. That needs to be our focus.” — M. Gessen, an Opinion columnist, in conversation with Lydia Polgreen, an Opinion columnist, and Stephen Stromberg, an Opinion editor Soil, not blood, determines U.S. citizenship. “Unless and until our Constitution is amended, our government is simply not allowed to punish innocent babies guaranteed full and equal citizenship by the Constitution itself.” — Akhil Reed Amar, a professor of constitutional law Spotlight
And the 2028 Democratic Presidential Primary Front-Runner Is …Nate Silver, in a chat with John Guida, assessed the front-runners, the politicians and nonpoliticians. ICYMIThe distinctive way Trump talks about his friends (and enemies). “Do you hear it? It’s like Trump is performing a little skit, acting out the conversation rather than just telling you the outcome.” — John McWhorter, Opinion writer Listen (or Watch)
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