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Gandhi Won’t Leave India

By GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI

Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy faces the challenge of neglect, obfuscation and co-option in contemporary India.

Editorial

Mr. Trump Makes a Spectacle of Himself

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The lobby of Trump Plaza on Tuesday before the president held a press conference.

Given one more chance to condemn white supremacists, the president takes up their talking points instead. comment icon Comments

FRANK BRUNI

Can’t Eclipse the American Spirit

Eclipse glasses for sale at an Ace Hardware store in Spring City, Tenn., last week.

What’s happening in the heavens is a bonanza on earth. comment icon Comments

ROSS DOUTHAT

Our House Divided

In July, members of the Ku Klux Klan protested the planned removal of a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Va.

Is there a path from the Trump era to civil war? comment icon Comments

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Charlottesville, ISIS and Us

An American Army helicopter in Kabul, Afghanistan, in April.

Pluralism is America’s strength, both at home and abroad. comment icon Comments

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Why Confederate Monuments Must Fall

By KAREN L. COX

They aren’t about heritage or history. They are tools of white supremacy. comment icon Comments

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A Conversation With Native Americans on Race

By MICHÈLE STEPHENSON and BRIAN YOUNG

Native Americans challenge their invisibility in society. comment icon Comments

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Trump’s Comment on Venezuela Makes a Bad Situation Worse

By MICHAEL SHIFTER
A march on Monday in Caracas, Venezuela, organized in response to President Donald J. Trump’s “military option” remark.

The president’s irresponsible suggestion that the U.S. could use military force in Latin America makes life harder for diplomats and the opposition.

IVAN KRASTEV

Why Are American Liberals So Afraid of Russia?

A man walks by a painting of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, on Arbat Street in Moscow.

Because it reminds them of the United States.

Op-Ed Contributor

Why Do Bangladeshis Seem Indifferent to Partition?

By K. ANIS AHMED
The author’s grandparents sitting with some of their children, including his mother age 9, second from right, in the courtyard of their East Pakistan home in the early 1950s.

To my Muslim Bengali grandparents, East Pakistan in 1948 was not a land of exile, but a land of opportunity.

Editorial

Let Prisoners Learn While They Serve

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Inmates who participate in prison education programs are far more likely to stay out of prison once they leave.

Disability

10 Things My Chronic Illness Taught My Children

By PAULA M. FITZGIBBONS

I worried that my rheumatoid arthritis would harm them. Instead, it has helped them grow. comment icon Comments

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The Merck C.E.O. Is No Hero

By ZOE GREENBERG
Kevin Plank of Under Armour, center, and Elon Musk of SpaceX, right. in January at a business leaders’ breakfast at the White House.

The executives who resigned from Trump’s business advisory council did the right thing. But moral leaders? Not quite.

A woman working at a collective farm near Moscow in 1955.
Red Century

Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism

By KRISTEN R. GHODSEE

Yes, there was repression behind the Iron Curtain. But it wasn’t sexual.

Superfans in The Front Row

By JESSICA LEHRMAN

Shoving right up to the band.

Letters

How to Respond to White Supremacists

Readers discuss President Trump’s late condemnation and urge the opposition to either stay away or avoid confrontation.

STEVEN RATTNER

How Donald Trump Is Driving Up Health Insurance Premiums

Insurance rates are projected to rise significantly next year because of uncertainty created by the president.

Op-Ed Contributor

What Jewish Children Learned From Charlottesville

By NATHAN ENGLANDER
White supremacists leading a torch march at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., on Friday night.

I thought this generation was free of the anti-Semitism I knew. On Saturday, that changed.

Letters

When C.E.O.s Stand Up to Trump, or Don’t

From left, Brian Krzanich, chief executive of Intel; Kevin Plank, the founder of Under Armour; and Kenneth C. Frazier, chief of Merck, resigned from a presidential advisory panel on Monday.

Readers discuss the executives who quit a presidential panel because of President Trump’s initial tepid response to white supremacists.

Letter

A Big Bill After Visiting the E.R.?

A small, rural hospital in Washington State, Newport Hospital and Health Services, outsourced its emergency room, as many hospitals have. Soon it started hearing from patients confused by getting large bills from the E.R. doctors.

A former health care administrator comments on for-profit health care companies.

Op-Ed Contributor

Can Anyone Stop Iran From Taking Over Iraq?

By ZAID al-ALI
A portrait of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s Shiite spiritual leader. His actions could present a real challenge to Iranian domination.

Armed militias, backed by Tehran, look set to dominate and intimidate Iraqi politics for years to come.

Op-Ed Contributor

Conversions From Islam in Europe and Beyond

By FAISAL DEVJI
A poster with a portrait of Jesus Christ in Cairo. In parts of the Muslim world, conversions from one religion to another are occurring, including to Christianity, but they don’t tend to follow its traditions.

Conversions from Islam tend not to follow the theological model of transformation inherited from Christianity.

Fixes

When Families Lead Themselves Out of Poverty

By DAVID BORNSTEIN
Mauricio Lim Miller, founder of the Family Independence Initiative, meeting with a family in Boston.

For the poor to find a way forward, they need confidence in their own abilities. comment icon Comments

The four features below have received nominations for the 2017 News and Documentary Emmy Awards.

Op-Docs

‘The Voter Suppression Trail’

By CHRIS BAKER, BRIAN MOORE and MIKE LACHER

Find out if your vote can survive the great, flawed adventure of American democracy.

Op-Docs

The Click Effect

By SANDY SMOLAN

Dive under the sea and listen to the language of dolphins and whales in virtual reality.

Op-Docs

4.1 Miles

By DAPHNE MATZIARAKI

In this short documentary, nominated for an Academy award, a coast guard captain on a Greek island is charged with saving thousands of refugees. comment icon Comments

PAMELA DRUCKERMAN

‘If I Sleep for an Hour, 30 People Will Die’

A World War II hero saved the lives of rebels and refugees. Now it’s our turn.

Op-Ed Contributors

China’s Intellectual Property Theft Must Stop

By DENNIS C. BLAIR and KEITH ALEXANDER
Workers at a factory in Huaibei, Anhui province, using microscopes to assemble micro motors for phones.

Trump is right to crack down on a $600 billion drain on the American economy.

Vietnam ’67

Summer of Love, Summer of War

By MICHAEL J. KRAMER
Attendees of the Human Be-In Festival resting in a field in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in 1967.

San Francisco Bay was the heart of the counterculture. It was also the heart of the American effort in Vietnam. comment icon Comments

Op-Ed Contributor

The Maddeningly Simple Way Tech Companies Can Employ More Women

By KATHARINE ZALESKI

The STEM talent pipeline is important. But what about the qualified female candidates right across the table? comment icon Comments

Editorial

Three Young Voices Versus a Superpower

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Joshua Wong during an October 2014 protest outside the offices of Hong Kong’s chief executive.

Three activists may become Hong Kong’s first political prisoners, crushing hopes that China will let democracy survive there.

DAVID BROOKS

How to Roll Back Fanaticism

A statue of Robert E. Lee in Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Va. A plan to remove the statue led to the rally that turned violent over the weekend.

Modesty is the most powerful answer. It means having the courage to see the world as complicated and progress as a product of balancing competing truths. comment icon Comments

BRET STEPHENS

Trump, Obama and the Politics of Evasion

People gathered in Chicago Sunday to protest the alt-right movement and mourn the victims of Saturday’s violence in Charlottesville.

We must call out evil in all its forms by name. comment icon Comments

Op-Ed Contributor

How Pakistan Abandoned Jinnah’s Ideals

By ABBAS NASIR
The portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah is displayed at the India-Pakistan border in Wagah as a Pakistani Ranger unfurls the flag during a ceremony to celebrate Pakistan’s Independence on Monday.

The founder’s vision of a civilian-led democracy with no state religion was betrayed by successive military rulers.

Editorial

How Mr. Trump Could Face Up to White Supremacists

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Saying “racism is evil” is only a start. comment icon Comments

Letters

The Open Wounds of Charlottesville

A car slammed into a group of counterprotesters after a rally by white nationalists on Saturday in Charlottesville, Va. killing one and injuring at least 19.

Readers discuss the riot and President Trump’s failure to quickly condemn the violence.

Letter

Low-Skilled Immigrants?

Thousands of Mexican workers cross the border legally each night from Mexico into California, where they pick up work as agricultural day laborers in California’s Imperial Valley.

A reader disagrees with changing the legal immigration system to reduce the supply of “low skilled” workers.

Vietnam ’67: A Newsletter About the War

American soldiers watching helicopters landing as part of Operation Pershing in South Vietnam in 1967.
Patrick Christain/Getty Images

Examining America’s long war in Southeast Asia through the course of a single year.

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