Good morning. Tell us what you think of this new version of the newsletter at opiniontoday@nytimes.com. NotableCongress shouldn’t be a retirement home. We need term limits. “Greater turnover would mean more politicians invested in the interests of their constituents — and the nation as a whole — over those of entrenched and influential advocacy groups.” — Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, and David Trone, a former congressman Democrats need to chill about the electability of women. “New Jersey is a Rorschach test for a party in full freakout.” — Molly Jong-Fast, contributing Opinion writer Trump’s new world disorder. “It is a stunning act of superpower suicide: Never before has the world’s reigning superpower intentionally dismantled a system designed to sustain its own leadership, particularly while those trappings were returning enormous benefits.” — Rebecca Lissner, senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations Spotlight
14 ‘Wellness Voters’ Talk Parenting, MAHA and Social MediaHow hard it can feel to be taken seriously by doctors and how hard it is to make choices — whether as a parent or as your own person — in the age of social media. ICYMITaylor Swift’s new album: fitting for the Trump era. “Singing about how ‘when I said I don’t believe in marriage that was a lie,’ or expressing a newfound desire to ‘have a couple kids, got the whole block looking like you’ — or for that matter, celebrating male endowment in a song called ‘Wood’ — is inevitably conservative-coded, even if the singer undoubtedly voted for Kamala Harris.” — Ross Douthat, Opinion columnist More in OpinionIn Your WordsSometimes a joke is just a joke. He’s trolling us and we keep falling for it. — A comment posted by Sf from Santa Monica Read more comments on the story here and check out our Letters to the Editor. We hope you’ve enjoyed this newsletter, which is made possible through subscriber support. Subscribe to The New York Times.
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