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December 8, 2025 
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| Ben Wiseman |
Notable
Trump’s travails look more and more like Biden’s. “I’m talking about more than Trump’s arguably diminished energy and the inarguably intensifying public attention to it. I’m also talking about the economy — and Trump’s spectacular failure to allay voters’ anxieties.”
— Frank Bruni, contributing Opinion writer
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Can we agree that kids don’t need Doritos at school? “The challenge for policymakers? For all the harm associated with diets high in ultraprocessed foods, when it comes to individual foods, ‘ultraprocessed’ is not a perfect proxy for how healthy or unhealthy they are.”
— Lindsey Smith Taillie, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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My retirement savings are betraying America. “Too many funds continue to operate as if the United States were still basking in the glow of Cold War victory instead of racing to remove critical supply chains from Chinese control.”
— Jonathan E. Hillman, a senior fellow for geoeconomics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Spotlight
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| Justin Metz |
Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Must Reinvent Itself
A special Opinion series argues that old ways of war leave America at risk.
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ICYMI
Not all targeted killings are the same. “There is a huge difference between the approaches of the Obama and Trump administrations to the use of lethal force. The Obama administration viewed lethal operations as necessary to protect American lives; officials in the Trump administration seem to revel in them.”
— Jeh C. Johnson, a director of homeland security in the Obama administration
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