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October 13, 2026
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Will our elections be safe? “Excessive doomsday talk and disinformation can cause voters to stay home when actually they have the power to protect our elections through high voter turnout.”

— Vanita Gupta, the director of the Center for Law and Public Trust at N.Y.U., in conversation with other election experts

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How Denver cracked its homeless problem. “By successfully combining enforcement and social services, Denver demonstrates that cities don’t need to choose between those binaries.”

— German Lopez, a writer for the editorial board

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The Supreme Court needs to change. “When the court develops an outsize sense of its own authority and when it uses that authority to impose its policy preferences and, increasingly, its partisan preferences on the rest of us, the arrangement becomes untenable. That has happened before, and it is manifestly the case now.”

— Kate Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer

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Slash, Prune or Let It Go: How Would You Manage A.I.?

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More Opinion Midterms Coverage

The Texas Democrat peeling off MAGA votes. “The opportunity for Democrats, Hinojosa believes, lies not with moderate, affluent Republicans put off by Trump’s norm-smashing vulgarity but with disappointed MAGA populists.”

— Michelle Goldberg, an Opinion columnist

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‘What You See in America Is Exactly What You Saw in Poland and Hungary’

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A TikTok Tarot Card Reader Accused Me of Murder. My Life Turned Upside Down.

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