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    Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke

    Out West, the ash in the air has literally changed how we look at the world.

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    The Psychic Toll of Trump’s DACA Decision

    Undocumented immigrants have long suffered while living in legal limbo. The Trump administration is making it far worse.

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    The Cold Warrior Who Never Apologized

    Walt Rostow, an M.I.T. professor turned national security adviser, epitomized the overweening confidence of the civilian strategists of Vietnam.

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    Christine Todd Whitman: How Not to Run the E.P.A.

    The agency is too important to treat like a reality TV show. People’s lives and our country’s resources are at stake.

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    Where Amazon Should Go

    The company would help itself, and the country, by putting its new headquarters outside of the Northeast, the West Coast or Chicago.

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    Netanyahu’s No-State Solution

    Trump should emulate James Baker, who gave the White House switchboard number and told the Israelis: “When you’re serious about peace, call us.”

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    Your Coming Tax Increase

    “If we want to maintain traditional American values,” the economist Larry Summers says, “then government will need to be larger.”

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    School Lunch Without Shame

    New York is removing the stigma of free lunch by making it available to all 1.1 million students.

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    A Devious Threat to a Nuclear Deal

    Mr. Trump has not abandoned his foolish quest to kill the hard-won agreement to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

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    Trump’s Debt Deal With the Democrats

    A reader surprises himself by offering praise for the president. Others worry about Mr. Trump’s “self-interest” and politicizing the debt ceiling.

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    New York DNA Crime Lab

    The city’s chief medical examiner discusses upgraded technology to comply with new F.B.I. requirements.