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August 7, 2026
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Notable

A generation asks if it needs antidepressants. “The medical system that puts people on these medications will need radical changes to carefully and safely lead people off. The question for patients is whom they will trust for guidance.”

— Camille Bromley, an Opinion editor

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The G.O.P. needs to draw a line somewhere. Max Miller is the place. “If Republican leaders fail to push him out of the race, voters have every reason to feel that much more disgusted.”

— Michelle Cottle, an Opinion writer

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What should worry Kevin Warsh. “The success of his chairmanship may hinge on an issue that has so far received little attention and sits outside the traditional purview of monetary policy: the nation’s ongoing fiscal deficits.”

— Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, a member of the Dallas Fed Academic Advisory Council

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Why Some Black Voters Are Losing Faith in Democrats

In Georgia, where Black voters could help decide control of the U.S. Senate, Mara Gay asks what some want from America and the Democratic Party.

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ICYMI

Bernie Sanders is not doing the Democrats any favors. “The insurgent left has shown an impressive display of organizing. But they are building this organization in part out of misleading narratives about the Democratic Party.”

— Matthew Yglesias, a contributing Opinion writer

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Re: Scott Galloway: America Abandoned Its ‘Unremarkable’ Young Men

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I'm a woman with a son. I love men — some of my greatest and closest friends throughout life have been men. My issue with Mr. Galloway's framing is that he describes one kind of man, and that's the kind of man he happens to be. I don't see my husband, my son, or many of the men I know in his characterization. I work in a creative and intellectual sphere and the men I know are artists and thinkers and readers, and really don't have this abiding interest in "protecting" or "providing." They manage to be responsible, reliable, and constant without all that.

As a woman, I don't want to be "protected" or provided for by men. I can do that myself, and I find it all quite offensive, if I'm honest. What I would like is to be protected by a society of laws and institutions that treat me like a full person.

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