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January 22, 2026

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Notable

Donald Trump, live from Davos. “It’s so fascinating and so revealing that Trump and his accomplices are there in droves. Like schoolyard bullies, they’re most desperate for respect from the people they pretend to have contempt for.”

— Frank Bruni, an contributing Opinion writer, in conversation with Bret Stephens, an Opinion columnist

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The world is failing the Rohingya. “We are not just victims. We are a people with our own long, distinctive history, defined by faith, resilience and a determination to shape our future — a people worth fighting for.”

— Lucky Karim, a Rohingya human rights advocate

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Has Trump pushed the Supreme Court too far? “At a moment when the court is poised to hand the president the power to fire every other independent agency head by fiat, it feels like someone should try to offer something that is recognizable as law that explains why those rules don’t apply here.”

— Kate Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer

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Spotlight

Xinyue Chen

The Health Care Diaries of Five Americans

We heard from 300 people about what they are paying in health insurance premiums after Affordable Care Act subsidies expired. Here are some of their stories.

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ICYMI

This is why our rivers are turning into sewers. “It’s a dirty, smelly, sickening mess, and the cause is quite simple. Unlike factories, most factory farms aren’t legally responsible for their pollution.”

— Michael Grunwald, a contributing Opinion writer

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The Opinions Hello, Greenland. Goodbye, Checks and Balances. Jamelle Bouie, Ross Douthat and Kathleen Kingsbury on how Trump is changing the U.S. and the world. 40 MIN LISTEN

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How Do You Preserve the Free World When America Goes Rogue? Asking for a friend. By David French

Jessica Grose The Heritage Foundation Wants to Send American Women Back Half a Century This is how the Heritage Foundation wants to turn back the clock. By Jessica Grose

Bret Stephens An Unhinged President on the Magic Mountain Trump’s Davos speech could have been ghostwritten by Mario Puzo. By Bret Stephens

Nicholas Kristof The American Threat: Three Words I Never Imagined Typing We don’t want our children patrolling hostile streets in Greenland or Canada any more than in Iraq and Afghanistan. By Nicholas Kristof

David Wallace-Wells America Is Waving the White Flag in the New Cold War Is a Chinese century now dawning? By David Wallace-Wells

In Your Words

Re: “The Heritage Foundation Wants to Send American Women Back Half a Century”

The left needs to reclaim religion and family. The Heritage Foundation and the right in general have always had more cultural grounding to stand on when it comes to issues of family and what family means and looks like in the future.— A comment posted by pim from Colorado

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