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Opinion | Like-minded people – NRC
I went to a football game again. I learned a new word: “horse mongoloid.” I thought of ‘horse cock’: someone who has severe Down syndrome. But my sister-in-law later told…
Column | Dull thump – NRC
Am I reading that fewer and fewer Dutch people are sexually active and that only the 75+ people are still regularly getting their buttocks? Didn’t those old people in that…
Jamie Dimon – NRC
During this week’s acute banking crisis in the US, Jamie Dimon moved quickly. What exactly happened? Dimon is the boss of America’s largest bank JPMorgan Chase and arguably Wall Street’s…
Opinion | Influence – NRC
I go to the polling station with my three-year-old son. The lady who gives me the ballot says that my son can go into the voting booth. “He is too…
Election results in maps – NRC
According to the final or provisional results, the BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) is the largest party in eleven of the twelve provinces. Utrecht seems to be the exception, here GroenLinks gets the…
Opinion | Regret – NRC
Handing out flyers for my political party (the VVD) in East Groningen, I got into a conversation with an older man. I could not immediately persuade him to vote for…
Opinion | Advice – NRC
Monday morning, on the train on my way to work: a PhD research on the countless interactions between humans and nature regarding climate change in rural areas. I overhear a…
What does NRC | Broad support is needed in the province and water board for all the tasks facing the Netherlands
This is the daily commentary from NRC. It contains opinions, interpretations and choices. They are written by a group of editors selected by the editor-in-chief. NRC shows where in the…
Meaning in non-religious times – NRC
Exist, how do you actually do that? Breathe, look, listen, live, in an era in which there is less and less room for religion and meaning. “A world in which…
Column | Gooise polonaise – NRC
Sometimes I dream ahead of time. Like last night. It was 2025 and I wanted to enter the Jumbo van Blaricum. It may also have been Laren’s. In any case,…