The Google/Verizon Payment Plan
Some of the ideas about guaranteeing access to broadband Internet put forth by Google and Verizon are reasonable in principle, but they would dangerously limit the F.C.C.’s reach.
Editorials
In Defense of Marriage
If same-sex couples in California have the constitutional right to be part of the mainstream of society, then so should every couple in America.
Cleaner, Healthier Air
The Environmental Protection Agency needs to stick to its guns on pursuing a stricter national standard for smog-causing pollutants.
Down on the Social Farm
The biggest shift in the social-gaming world on the Internet is likely to be a battle over payment.
Editorial Series
Multimedia
Bloggingheads: Billionaire Leeches
Journalist Maureen Tkacik, left, and Megan McArdle of The Atlantic debate the societal value of the very wealthy.
Op-Art
Summer Share-House Squares
Can you make it from Memorial Day to Labor Day with your dignity and deposit intact?
Columnists
BOB HERBERT
Fire and Imagination
Hope has morphed into widespread gloom as widespread economic suffering becomes the new normal in America.
GAIL COLLINS
My Favorite August
Ninety years ago this month, a young man took his mother’s good advice to support the cause of Susan B. Anthony and women in America.
CHARLES M. BLOW
Justin Bieber for President
Since America’s youngsters are full of hope and feel engaged with the world while adults are full of pessimism and feel as if the country is on the wrong track, let’s just put the kids in charge.
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- David Brooks Tu, F
- Roger Cohen Tu, F
- Gail Collins Th, Sa
- Ross Douthat M
- Maureen Dowd W, Su
- Thomas L. Friedman W, Su
- Bob Herbert Tu, Sa
- Nicholas D. Kristof Su, Th
- Paul Krugman M, F
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Op-Ed Contributors
Birthright of a Nation
By PETER H. SCHUCK
Children of illegal immigrants should attend American schools before they are granted U.S. citizenship.
Opinionator
The Thread
Preaching About a Mosque
By TOBIN HARSHAW
For many, the issue of the Islamic cultural center near ground zero has become personal. This hasn't helped with the "dialogue" the project was supposed to start.
Hiding in Plain Sight
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
While we have been fussing about same-sex marriage, marriage itself has undergone a profound change.
Living Rooms
How the West Won Me
By WINIFRED GALLAGHER
Settling into a steel barn in Wyoming, a New Yorker learns to adapt the local style.
The Stone
On Dawkins’s Atheism: A Response
By GARY GUTTING
The author answers a challenge from readers to explain how "The God Delusion" is based on "demonstrably faulty arguments."
The Mirthless Senate
By TIMOTHY EGAN
If ever there were a place in need of more comedy, and less comity, it’s the U.S. Senate.
The Stone
The Phenomenology of Ugly
By ANDY MARTIN
Sartre's traumatic haircut and why ugliness may be indispensable to philosophy.
Today’s Highlights
The Thread
Preaching About a Mosque
For many, the issue of the Islamic cultural center near ground zero has become personal.
Bloggingheads
Billionaire Leeches
Journalist Maureen Tkacik and Megan McArdle of The Atlantic debate the societal value of the very wealthy.
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From the Archive
Op-Classic, 1982: A Soviet Fable
James Reston imagines Leonid Brezhnev’s state of the union speech to the former Soviet Socialist Republic.
Freakonomics
Freakonomics on NYTimes.com
Authors Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner and guest contributors blog about the hidden side of the economy.
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