OPINION
How Iran Recruited Afghan Refugees to Fight Assad’s War
By ALI M. LATIFI
Afghan refugees in Iran have a choice between deportation or fighting in Syria and a residency permit.
EDITORIAL
A Sign of Hope From Mr. Tillerson
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The secretary of state and Ivanka Trump have made forceful statements on human trafficking. But we need to hear more from this administration.
DAVID BROOKS
Tuners and Spinners
Members of one social category are adventurous, while members of another are more intimate.
GAIL COLLINS
I’ve Overestimated Donald Trump
Shouldn’t he have been in meetings instead of tweeting about Mika Brzezinski?
PAUL KRUGMAN
Understanding Republican Cruelty
There are reasons the health insurance legislation is morally obscene.
TIMOTHY EGAN
The Blood on a Tax Cut
The toxic Senate bill is the broadest attack on working Americans by a governing political party in our lifetime.
President Trump’s Lies, the Definitive List
By DAVID LEONHARDT and STUART A. THOMPSON
We have catalogued nearly every outright lie the president has told publicly since taking the oath of office.
EDITORIAL
If We Lose Our Health Care …
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
We asked Times readers how the Republican bill would affect them. Here are a few of their stories.
GAIL COLLINS
Your Fourth of July Quiz
The demands of concerned citizenship never wane. Let’s see how much attention you’ve been paying to current presidential events.
OPINION
The Muslim Prom Queen and Me
By ROMAISSAA BENZIZOUNE
Why is the idea of a hijabi reaching peak high school popularity so disconcerting?
RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN
What Cookies and Meth Have in Common
Modern humans have designed the perfect environment for drug and food addiction.
LETTERS
What Trump’s Tweets Say About Him
Readers discuss the president’s tweet about Mika Brzezinski.
LETTER
Civilian Casualties of War
The Center for Civilians in Conflict says some no longer believe that minimal effort to prevent harm to civilians matters as much as defeating ISIS.
LETTER
Debt Collection: Navient Responds
The president of Navient, which owns Pioneer, defends the company against what he calls “false allegations.”
LETTER
The Travel Ban, and an Appalled Grandma
A reader is shocked that grandparents are not included as close family members in the travel ban.
LETTER
Nuclear Power and Climate Change
Carol M. Browner, a former E.P.A. administrator, writes that we need to preserve the critical carbon-free power we get from nuclear plants.
OP-DOCS
From Aleppo to L.A.
By JULIA MELTZER
Julia Meltzer
A refugee girl comes of age in America.
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
No Country for Bangladesh’s Gay Men
By RAAD RAHMAN
Justice is becoming increasingly rare for the families and friends of L.G.B.T. activists murdered in Bangladesh.
LETTER
Puerto Rico’s Creditors
The National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation writes that the island’s creditors are not a monolithic group of opportunistic human “sharks.”
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Canada’s Hidden History, My Mother and Me
By GABRIELLE SCRIMSHAW
Seven generations of my First Nations family were sent to residential schools, separated from their parents and stranded from their own culture.
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Israeli Leaders Bend to Religious Conservatives at Their Peril
By SHALOM LIPNER
The ultra-Orthodox genuinely believe that their conduct is what guarantees the security of the Jewish people.
OPINION
Happy Birthday, America. One Small Suggestion …
By STEPHEN FRY
Let us embark together on an Independence Day thought experiment.
YI-ZHENG LIAN
Chinese Ways of Empire, Then and Now
Hong Kong, beware: Ancient history provides ominous examples of China subjugating rebellious peoples on its periphery.
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Chris Patten: Did Beijing Betray Hong Kong?
By CHRIS PATTEN
Hong Kong is a small place, but its fate will loom large over the 21st century.
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
You Don’t Need Blue Apron to Teach You to Turn On Your Oven
By AMANDA COHEN
The whole point of training wheels is that eventually you don’t need them anymore.
EDITORIAL
Mr. Trump’s For-Profit Campaign
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Now that he is raising re-election funds, the president appears to again be following the questionable practices of last year.
EDITORIAL
Please Let This Be a Pivot Point for the Subway
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
A series of subway delays, breakdowns and a recent accident have led to the declaration of a state of emergency.
PATRICK CHAPPATTE
Vietnam ’67: A Newsletter About the War
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Examining America’s long war in Southeast Asia through the course of a single year.
