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March 17, 2026, 4:42 p.m. Eastern time

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Guest essays from Opinion

Richard Bookstaber

I Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis. What Is Coming May Be Worse.

Richard Bookstaber warns that what appears to be disparate forces adding risk to our economy are all part of one deeply connected system.

Richard Florida

Could This Be the End of Dubai?

The new global city under fire.

Glynnis MacNicol

Carolyn Bessette Was Living the Dream. Then She Met John.

The fairy tale was 1990s New York.

Naveen Kumar

Wasn’t Timothée Chalamet Supposed to Be a New Kind of Leading Man?

He’s no longer that heart-on-his-sleeve sensitive soft boy many people fell for.

Paul Goldberger

Trump Will Destroy Washington if It’s the Last Thing He Does

Trump’s plans for Washington bring to mind what Mussolini did — and tried to do — to Rome.

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Judge Zahid Quraishi ordered a hearing on who had the authority to lead New Jersey’s top federal law enforcement office.

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The first Trump administration defended cluster munitions as “legitimate,” but on Monday, Adm. Brad Cooper condemned them as “inherently indiscriminate.”

Opinion | We Study Mass Shooters. Something Terrifying Is Happening Online.

The violence is not a means to an end. It is the end.

A Red Fox’s Fantastic Voyage Starts in England and Leads to the Bronx

The fox is convalescing at the Bronx Zoo after an unlikely 3,600-mile sea crossing from England to the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Opinion | Trump Can’t Spin His Way Out of This War

The early reality of the Iran war is not cooperating with the president’s bluster.

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