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Opinion Today
November 25, 2025
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Notable

Trump’s broken promise to confront corporate power. “The Trump administration is decimating the federal agencies that police corporations and protect workers and consumers.”

— The editorial board

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What your signature dish says about you. “Dip people are caretakers: They just want everyone to get along. Cheese board people are natural curators and the most Type A people you’ll meet. Salad people are sunny optimists with a slight moral superiority complex.”

— Casey Elsass, author of “What Can I Bring? Recipes to Help You Live Your Guest Life.”

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Why don’t Democrats have an A.I. plan? “Some populist conservatives complain Mr. Trump is too friendly to tech giants, but he seems to have set the broad direction for the party. Democrats are nowhere near as coherent or unified on this issue.”

— David Byler, a former data journalist

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Spotlight

ICYMI

The march toward regime change in Venezuela. “The administration’s drug war rhetoric seems like a pretext. But a pretext for what?”

— Michelle Goldberg, Opinion columnist

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President Trump walking next to the columns of the White House.

Guest Essay

Why Trump Won’t Face Prosecution This Time Around

The president has a very big immunity umbrella.

By Thomas B. Edsall

Two people, one on either aside of a fence, are skipping together, their arms around each other’s backs; a third person waves.

Thomas L. Friedman

Donate to Help Build Community in the Mideast

This holiday season, I am donating to nonprofits that help make community ecosystems and nature’s ecosystems more resilient.

By Thomas L. Friedman

In Your Words

Re: “The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart

We have long been making this bed. The key to this opinion is the Tanzanian caregiver. He has had to leave his own country where elders are revered, in order to earn a living in a country that has built a culture around discarding the elderly. What could possibly be wrong with this picture? It will take more than money. It will take a tectonic perspective shift in the value of family and community. — A comment posted by Sefaria from Sugar Hill, N.H.

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