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July 1, 2026

Notable

A bluffer’s guide to the World Cup. “Even if you do not know your low block from your high press, this is your guide to faking it. It’s not too late.”

— Roger Bennett, the author of “We Are the World (Cup)”

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The zillionaire men who want a zillion kids. “We should also focus on reining in the extraordinary inequality that has given rise to a kingly class of men so powerful, they believe they can remake the world in their genetic image.”

— Anna Louie Sussman, a contributing Opinion writer

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What Zionism is and what it is not. “Reducing Zionism to flags, slogans or epithets provides cover for those who seek Israel’s destruction and ignores all the good the Zionist project has wrought.”

— Ari D. Berman, the president of Yeshiva University

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Spotlight

Naila Ruechel for The New York Times

Five Words That Shook the World

Jamelle Bouie writes that it wasn’t Thomas Jefferson who made “All men are created equal” actually mean something.

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ICYMI

The Supreme Court remembers its principles. “The majority’s decision is a relief because this Supreme Court is not always willing to apply the law equally to Mr. Trump.”

— The editorial board

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More in Opinion

Guest Essay Is the Supreme Court Incoherent? Independent? 3 Legal Scholars Assess a Tumultuous Term. What it means to have a “no ifs, ands or quasis about it” problem. By Kate Shaw, William Baude and Stephen I. Vladeck

In Your Words

Re: “I’m Gay, Not Queer. It Matters.”

David Austin As a co-founder of an organization that fought and won the right to marriage equality, I agree. The word “queer” has always sat uneasily with me. At the heart of the marriage fight was a simple message: we were asking for equality—to be seen as the same, not as something apart. It wasn’t long ago that most LGBT people were ostracized and closeted, and some still are. In 2008, I came to understand why marriage mattered so much: a teenager could finally picture a future in which they married the person they loved. That would change everything. And it did.

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