It’s not just Putin. Russia needs China, too. Read: nyti.ms/3UZtEbp

“Never since the fall of the Soviet Union has Russia been so distant from Europe,' writes Alexander Gabuev 陳寒士. “And never in its entire history has it been so entwined with China.” nyti.ms/3UHHhKX

Bret Stephens asks: How free would a “free Palestine” really be? nyti.ms/3UZiQtR

Chris Gibbs of rural Shelby County, Ohio, believes Democrats there don’t “have the same values as those in San Francisco or Detroit,” writes Farah Stockman. “And that’s the beauty of what makes Democrats different in the age of Trump.”

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“It is lamentable that even though bioethics programs are widely incorporated into medical education, moral and ethical transgressions remain a stubborn problem as part of medical structures’ groupthink.” #NYTLetters nyti.ms/3K2fxvK

“America is now committed to a long legal fight to ban TikTok,” write Nick Frisch and Dan Wang. A “defeat won’t look good, but victory may bear bitter fruit as well: the muddling of our values at home and a propaganda win for autocrats abroad.”

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Can this ex-Republican revive Democrats in rural Ohio?

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Cheap imports may make a nation as a whole richer, but they can also hurt significant numbers of workers, writes @PaulKrugman nyti.ms/3K6FYQI

“The prospect of a second term of chaos, dysfunction and gross contempt for the rights and liberties of millions of Americans makes Trump himself a kind of crisis in the making,” b-boy bouiebaisse writes.

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Will Trump’s brand get him convicted? Three writers on the Manhattan trial.

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How to make sex crime convictions stick.

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Biden’s approval is low, except compared with everyone else’s. Read: nyti.ms/3wxDUOM

Kristi Noem’s dog-killing story “makes more sense when you think about the kind of humans she’s trying to impress. The ex-president and the people who surround him often seem drawn to violence and lurid displays of dominance,” says Michelle Goldberg. Read: nyti.ms/4apRkKl

In a round table, David French, Rebecca Roiphe and Ken White dissect the Trump trial and debate who is more pleased with the course of the trial so far — the prosecution or the defense.

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The recent Harvey Weinstein ruling in New York is “a loss,” for both survivors and prosecutors of similar cases, writes Cyrus R. Vance Jr.

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The end of TikTok is a propaganda win for Beijing.

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Are we really going to let Trump come back to fail again?

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President Biden is more popular than his peers. Read: nyti.ms/3wvGWTH

Killing dogs. Taunting the homeless. Praising Al Capone. This is Trump’s party. Read: nyti.ms/4biPJHA

“Trump’s approach to America’s place in the world is pragmatic or unpredictable or both, and it could offer surprising opportunities for peace,” says Curt Mills.

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