The Strange Death of Make America Great Again
Trump has begun to recede from the movement he created.
December 24, 2025
This Is What the Murder of a Whole City Looks Like
A militia accused of genocide has seized a city of a quarter-million people, and it now appears from satellites to be a ghost town.
December 24, 2025
Luigi Mangione and Tyler Robinson Are a Worrying New Archetype
They complicate the story about political violence as well as our hopes for safety and justice.
December 24, 2025
Mixed Grades for Home-Schooling
Readers offer personal stories in response to a guest essay critical of home-schooling.
‘A Hard Time We Had of It’
Ross Douthat reads the poem “The Journey of the Magi” by T.S. Eliot as a reflection of this year’s themes.
December 24, 2025
‘A Hard Time We Had of It’
A fitting poem for a transformative year.
December 24, 2025
Americans Say They Want One Thing, Then Vote a Different Way. Here’s Why.
Voters keep resolving to change our country and yet we are increasingly disappointed in those we elect.
December 24, 2025
‘A Hard Time We Had of It’
A fitting poem for a transformative year.
December 24, 2025
The Idea That Once Held America Together Died in 2025
The 2025 revolt against process signaled the final collapse of a powerful idea that once promised to hold the country together.
December 24, 2025
A Christmas Argument That Ended in Harmony
Standing together on behalf of those who flee oppression is a very Christmas thing to do.
December 24, 2025
Stephen Colbert Hits a High Note
After winning an Emmy, Stephen Colbert spoke about creating a “show about love.” In its homestretch, “The Late Show” is fulfilling that promise.
December 24, 2025
Don’t Blow Up, and Other Tips for Arguing With Your MAGA Uncle
Few things can calm a savage heart like being genuinely listened to.
December 24, 2025
Your Social Muscles Are Wasting Away. Here Is How to Retrain Them.
Three lessons from a London commune.
December 24, 2025
Youth Hostels, Blood Banks, Yoga: How One Far-Right Network Spread Across the World
Far-right mobilization is not an inevitable consequence of the precariousness of our times.
December 24, 2025
Hopes for Mamdani’s Vision for Child Care
Readers respond to a guest essay on the incoming mayor’s universal child care plan. Also: A gift that never grows old.
December 23, 2025
A.I.’s ‘Circular Money Machine’
Nvidia, OpenAI and other major artificial intelligence companies all invest in one another. This carries some risks, as Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal explains on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
December 23, 2025
Is A.I. Actually a Bubble?
Tracy Alloway of Bloomberg News walks through the signs to watch for if an A.I. bubble is coming.
December 23, 2025
3 Theories of What’s Going On With the Contradictory Economic Data
There are some possible explanations for what’s happening with seemingly conflicting macroeconomic data.
December 23, 2025
The MAHA Pipe Dream Is Going to Hurt MAGA the Most
The war on public health is a battle to the death.
December 23, 2025
The Real-Life Marty Supreme Taught Me How to Hustle
When I first moved to New York City, Marty Reisman befriended me.
December 23, 2025
You Should Be Skeptical of the TikTok Deal
Trump’s deal preserves many of the ties to China that the law was designed to sever.
December 23, 2025
‘This Is Something That Traditional Economics Isn’t Prepared to Deal With’
Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, the hosts of the economics podcast “Odd Lots,” walk through how Trump’s tariffs, A.I. and the vibecession are making for a strange close to the year.
December 23, 2025
‘This is Something that Traditional Economics Isn’t Prepared to Deal With’
Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal, the hosts of the economics podcast “Odd Lots,” walk through how Trump’s tariffs, A.I. and the vibecession are making for a strange close to the year.
December 23, 2025
What Your Loved Ones With Dementia Are Picking Up On
When people’s cognition is splintered or absent, they are absorbing the emotions around them with no filter to protect them.
December 23, 2025
What We Get Wrong About Christian Nationalism
The irony of our secular age is that theology is more powerful than ever.
December 23, 2025
Israel Needs to Get Out of Trump’s Way
President Trump should press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ease military pressure on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria for the sake of his own policy.
December 23, 2025
Worthen Fader
Worthen Fader
December 22, 2025
The Burdens and Joys of Holiday Hosting
Readers discuss whether or not to quit hosting holiday celebrations. Also: How to lighten the load for busy judges.
December 22, 2025
The Most Important Thing We Learned From Susie Wiles
There are no wallflowers in Trump’s White House.
December 22, 2025
No Democrat Should ‘Rerun the Biden Strategy’
The columnist Michelle Goldberg believes Democrats — and the nation — lose when they abandon the idea of America as a nation of immigrants.
December 22, 2025
Three Experts on Vaccines, Measles and Kennedy
Making sense of a year of change.
December 22, 2025
The Opioid Crisis Never Ended. It Was Inherited by the Children.
The pain of drug addiction continues to course through towns like Clarksburg, W.Va., where many babies are born withdrawing and have to be taken from their parents.
December 22, 2025
I Asked ChatGPT to Solve an 800-Year-Old Italian Mystery. What Happened Surprised Me.
For centuries, nobody has known who built the Florence Baptistery. Could A.I. crack the mystery?
December 22, 2025
This Is the Year Millennials Officially Got Old
What happens when the me, me, me generation enters its old era?
December 22, 2025
The U.S. Must Break China’s Chokehold on Our Economy
The world’s democracies cannot depend on the most powerful authoritarian state — and an increasingly aggressive one — for critical minerals.
December 22, 2025
France Needs More Than a New Leader. It Needs a New France.
The time has come for a Sixth Republic.
December 22, 2025
Why Is Shopping an Abyss of Blah?
Shopping should be about lust. Instead, it’s become a slog.
December 21, 2025
How to Reduce Surging Health Care Costs
Readers suggest ways to bring medical costs under control for average Americans. Also: Australia sets an example for the U.S. on gun laws.
December 21, 2025
Inside a Democratic Socialist Convention Galvanized by Mamdani’s Big Win
The D.S.A. is still small. But as economic inequality keeps burning, Democratic Socialists are attracting intense interest and getting elected to office.
December 21, 2025
The Trump Vibe Shift Is Dead
What will come in its wake?
December 21, 2025
Christianity Is a Dangerous Faith
Living in the upside-down kingdom of God.
December 21, 2025
Our 55-Year Age Gap Didn’t Interfere With Our Bond
She was a great-grandmother, and I was a millennial. We could have talked forever.
December 21, 2025
A Lifeline for New York’s Working Families
Children’s Aid provides free after-school programs for low-income New Yorkers that students love and parents see as a solution.
December 21, 2025
Donald Trump Is Very Unhappy With You
It’s all over but the shouting.
December 20, 2025
Candace Owens Is the Conservative Movement’s Frankenstein Monster
The right mastered influencer politics. Now it’s tearing the movement apart.
December 20, 2025
How We Got to This Marco Rubio Moment
The secretary of state has somehow avoided becoming either a media fixation or a major player in the right’s unfolding psychodrama.
December 20, 2025
Why I Gave Up Holiday Hosting
I spent years dreaming of giving up, but figuring out how, when the role of host had calcified around me like plaster, seemed impossible.
December 20, 2025
Trump’s Address Was a ‘Lame-Duck Speech’
Jamelle Bouie argues that the administration already looks burned out — with three more years to go.
December 20, 2025
Who Is Actually Running America?
On the “Opinions” podcast, Jamelle Bouie argues we’re observing a presidency run by people pursuing “their own narrow ideological political goals, using the president’s authority.”
December 20, 2025
The White House Is Just ‘Trying to Keep Grandpa Busy’
Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Cottle and David French convene to discuss the year that was.
December 20, 2025
The Race to Build the World’s Best Friend
Major A.I. companies are competing to give their models the most appealing personality.
December 20, 2025
What Would Surprise Jesus About Christmas 2025?
An eminent New Testament scholar recounts what he says was the message of Jesus that transformed the West.
December 20, 2025
This Nonprofit Is Expanding Access to Tech Careers
Per Scholas has helped over 30,000 people, about half of whom never graduated from a four-year college, break into careers in tech.
December 20, 2025
When Judges Are Attacked, You Suffer
When judges have to ask if one ruling is a “safer choice for their family” than another, is it still justice? Judge Esther Salas explains how political attacks have threatened the foundation of the U.S. judiciary.
December 20, 2025
Was 2025 the End of ‘Teflon Trump’?
Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Cottle and David French convene to discuss the year that was.
December 20, 2025
Weighing Politics and Morality in the Israel Debate
Readers respond to an essay criticizing U.S. Democrats’ failure to resolve the conflict in Gaza. Also: Trump’s Kennedy Center rebrand; blaming immigrants after the Brown shooting.
December 19, 2025
Trump’s New Marijuana Policy Offers an Opportunity
All policy decisions have trade-offs, and cannabis legalization is no exception.
December 19, 2025
Yes, Nancy Pelosi Says, the Country Is Ready for a Woman to Be President
The speaker emerita is disappointed and a little surprised that the presidential glass ceiling remains intact but is confident that it will change.
December 19, 2025
College Is Still Worthwhile. This Organization Proves It.
Monica-Grace Mukendi’s career demonstrates the lasting impact of OneGoal, a nonprofit that helps low-income students attend college.
December 19, 2025
Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me
There’s no getting around this if we want to avoid the deficit cliff ahead.
December 19, 2025
What Happened When My Yale Students Gave Up Their Phones for Four Weeks
Adults need to set up rules for students so that it’s not on them to self-regulate when it comes to going tech-free.
December 19, 2025
Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth
How providence and loss helped shape “The Lord of the Rings.”
December 19, 2025
How Did a City of 10 Million People Nearly Run Out of Water?
Restricting Tehran’s growth and water use — however politically difficult — would be more prudent than trying to engineer ever more elaborate workarounds.
December 19, 2025
We’re in the Age of American Pessimism
America is in its pessimism era, and Trump is playing on it, argues the columnist David Brooks in this episode of The Conversation.
December 18, 2025
Is Trump Finished?
“A lot of people are seeing some things that are really bad for Donald Trump,” David Brooks says in this episode of The Conversation.
December 18, 2025
What Katy Perry Gets About Justin Trudeau That Canada Forgot
As a politician, Justin Trudeau was an excellent celebrity. And the rest of the world could learn a useful lesson from how he wielded his star power.
December 18, 2025
A Lesson From the Abrego Garcia Saga
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s release from immigration detention last week offers a useful model for how Democrats can successfully challenge the Trump administration, the Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie argues.
December 18, 2025
Trump’s Drone Strikes Are Wrong. Obama’s Were, Too
Readers respond to a guest essay on why the recent boat strikes by the Trump administration are unjustified.
December 18, 2025
‘Miraculous,’ ‘Amazing,’ ‘Disappointing’: 14 Voters on Their Experiences With GLP-1 Drugs and Health in America
The participants discuss their experiences with taking GLP 1s for weight loss and diabetes.
December 18, 2025
The Righteousness of Ahmed el Ahmed
Bravery and cowardice are both exemplary teachers.
December 18, 2025
The Trump Economy and America’s Bad Mood
Trump is giving himself an A-plus-plus-plus, but the rest of America is anxious.
December 18, 2025
What Happens When You Send a Girl to School
Joyce Arthur says she is a living testimony to the benefit of investing in African girls’ education.
December 18, 2025
Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
Liberals should reconcile with America’s oil and gas industry.
December 18, 2025
The Judges Being Pizza Doxxed in My Dead Son’s Name
The rise in judicial threats is being fueled by the political rhetoric of the Trump administration, a judge argues.
December 18, 2025
David Brooks, E.J. Dionne and Robert Siegel Take Stock of 2025
Trump is giving himself an A-plus-plus-plus, but the rest of America is anxious.
December 18, 2025
When Judges Are Attacked, You Suffer
The rise in judicial threats is being fueled by the political rhetoric of the Trump administration, argues the judge Esther Salas.
December 18, 2025
December 17, 2025
Let’s Go Beyond Trump’s Vile Words About Rob Reiner
We must do far more to address the national crisis of addiction that leaves so many households in despair as well as danger.
December 17, 2025
Trump Is Doubling Down on His Disastrous A.I. Chip Policy
National security shouldn’t ever have a price.
December 17, 2025
When Patients Lose Faith in Medicine
Readers react to Daniela Lamas’s essay on the moral dilemma posed by a patient who refused her advice, then died. Also: Managing methane on farms.
December 17, 2025
Anti-Vaccine Influencers Have Shown Me the Limits of Resistance
I was wrong about how to push back.
December 17, 2025
The White House Is a Lost Cause
Why are the Supreme Court and Congress conspiring to give him more power?
December 17, 2025
What Rob Reiner Told Me the Last Time We Spoke
In life and art, he was the successor to Norman Lear.
December 17, 2025
The Movie I Was Afraid to See
It all comes down to coordination.
December 17, 2025
A Vibrant Community for New York’s Seniors
For people like Deborah Otts, an online community can be lifesaving.
December 17, 2025
Groyperism Isn’t Conservatism. It’s Anti-Americanism.
If the post-Trump G.O.P. makes the same mistake the Democrats did with their identitarian fringe, Republicans will meet a similar fate.
December 17, 2025
Pinochet Is Smiling in His Grave
Chile’s new leader wants to rewrite its past and recast its future.
December 17, 2025
There’s a Simpler Explanation for the Rightward Shift of Young Men
Does discrimination drive alienation?
December 16, 2025
Australia Can’t Recover From This
The victims were let down by a government whose role it is to do what individuals cannot: keep our nation safe from terrorism and mass shootings.
December 16, 2025
How to Do a Little More Good in the World
As part of Times Opinion’s Giving Guide, the columnist Ezra Klein spoke with Elie Hassenfeld, GiveWell’s co-founder and chief executive.
December 16, 2025
GiveWell’s Lightbulb Moment
Elie Hassenfeld was inspired to start GiveWell when he couldn’t find answers to his questions about charitable donations. He shares the organization’s origin story on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
December 16, 2025
Our Petty, Hollow, Squalid Ogre in Chief
The White House has never had a more loathsome occupant.
December 16, 2025
Donald Trump May Be About to Pick the Least Important Fed Chair in Decades
Consensus may be a thing of the past. And that’s good.
December 16, 2025
Rob Reiner’s Legacy Will Outlast Trump’s Toxic Talk
Readers mourn Rob Reiner and take offense at the president’s crude response. Also: America snubs its allies; phone scams; former President Joe Biden’s library.
December 16, 2025
Stephen King: Why I Hugged Rob Reiner After Watching ‘Stand by Me’
In Rob’s hands, my most autobiographical novel rang true.
December 16, 2025
Trump Says He Doesn’t Want the Best for His Enemies, but There Is Someone He Wants the Best For
Gimme, gimme, gimme. Gimme some more.
December 16, 2025
‘Have You Ever Heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Morons!’ Three Opinion Writers on Rob Reiner’s Films
Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Cottle and Ross Douthat chat with Stephen Stromberg about Rob Reiner’s legacy.
December 16, 2025
The Simplest Way to Save Lives With Your Money
Elie Hassenfeld, the chief executive of the nonprofit GiveWell, makes the case for a more rigorous, transparent and accountable approach to charitable giving.
December 16, 2025
Olivia Nuzzi, Karine Jean-Pierre and Eric Trump Have All Written the Same Book
A recent spate of books highlights the presence of a new category, one well suited to our time: the grievance memoir.
December 16, 2025
The Simplest Way to Save Lives With Your Money
Elie Hassenfeld, the chief executive of the nonprofit GiveWell, makes the case for a more rigorous, transparent and accountable approach to charitable giving.
December 16, 2025
A Family Transformed by a Special-Needs Preschool
For the mother of a son and a daughter with autism, the Kennedy Children’s Center has “opened up a whole world.”
December 16, 2025
Why Both Republicans and Democrats Are Wrong About Health Care
The real issue is how to address overall cost. Haggling over Obamacare subsidies or what might replace them isn’t the solution.
December 16, 2025
The Starving Artist vs. A.I.: Guess Who Is Winning?
What A.I. imperils is not human creativity itself but the ability to make a living from creative endeavor.
December 16, 2025
Europe Is in Decline. Good.
Demotion need not be traumatic.
December 16, 2025
600 Readers Told Us About the Best Gifts They Ever Got. These Are the Top 13.
We asked readers to tell us about the most memorable presents they’ve received.
December 15, 2025
Selling Young Men on the Blame Game
“It’s not a coincidence that a bunch of young men began thinking that women were responsible for their problems,” Jamelle Bouie says on “The Opinions,” explaining how influencers exploit young men’s anxieties to push an agenda.
December 15, 2025
The G.O.P.’s ‘Women Problem’
The Republican Party has long struggled with women — and it’s not something Trump created, Michelle Cottle says. “It is just something that he has exploited.”
December 15, 2025
After Two Mass Shootings, Grief and Resilience
Readers react to the shootings at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, and at Brown University. Also: Defining old; the East Wing teardown.
December 15, 2025
The Humanity Amid the Horror at Bondi Beach
We must not succumb to the darkness of hate and fear.
December 15, 2025
Trump’s Superlatives Are Bigger Than Yours
The president is getting a lesson in the limits of grade inflation.
December 15, 2025
Bret Stephens on the Fight for the Future of the Right
The columnist believes America’s real political contest is in the center.
December 15, 2025
Trump’s Dated Strategy Is Putting Us on a Path to World War III
We are headed for more confrontation, more brinkmanship, more war.
December 15, 2025
A Gift That Gets Children Reading
Early access to high-quality books can transform lives, improve educational outcomes and help create the next generation of curious and informed citizens.
December 15, 2025
Donald Trump’s Cowboy Diplomacy
Sometimes Trump’s unconventional foreign policy just works.
December 15, 2025
Trump Said Freeing Jimmy Lai Would Be Easy. He Should Prove It.
The Hong Kong publisher’s fate will reveal whether democracies still have the resolve to defend their own values.
December 15, 2025
Bondi Beach Is What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like
When a slogan’s real meaning comes true.
December 14, 2025
No Quick Fix for Our Housing Crisis
Sampling the many responses to a column by Ezra Klein.
December 14, 2025
What Happens if You Refuse to Recognize That We Are in a Death Spiral
Remind me never to listen to what they are saying online about me.
December 14, 2025
The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
The first rule of dark money is to quit blabbing about it. Did they think people would thank them for it?
December 14, 2025
Home-Schooled Kids Are Not All Right
Not once, in the four and a half years I learned at home, did anyone from the state come to assess what sort of education I was receiving or even just check on me.
December 14, 2025
A Free World Needs a Strong America
Preventing a world where dictators can attack at will requires a military that has the right tools, the right tactics and the right culture.
December 14, 2025
Trump Confronts a Backlash of the Reasonable
An explanation for the sharp decline in President Trump’s approval ratings.
December 13, 2025
The G.O.P. Wanted ‘Mama Bears.’ It Got Something More Unruly.
Trump didn’t invent misogyny, but he’s leaning into it.
December 13, 2025
We Should Teach Our Students How to Think, Not What to Believe
Gaza has turned California classrooms into political battlegrounds.
December 13, 2025
The 77-Year-Old Book That Helps Explain the MAGA New Right
To really understand what is happening today, we must understand the ideology and thinkers behind the MAGA New Right.
December 13, 2025
Republican Women vs. the G.O.P.
Trump didn’t invent misogyny, but he’s leaning into it.
December 13, 2025
Trump’s Nvidia Deal Undermines National Security
This week, Donald Trump announced that he would allow Nvidia to sell its powerful H200 chips to China. The Times Opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, argues that the move undermines national security.
December 13, 2025
To Outbuild China, America Needs Friends
For the sake of global security and freedom, the world’s democracies must collaborate better.
December 13, 2025
The U.S. Seizes an Oil Tanker. What’s Next?
Readers react to developments in the U.S.-Venezuela confrontation. Also: A group of six women with decades of connection.
December 12, 2025
How to Find a Date in a Country With Over 30 Million Extra Men
A decade after the end of the one-child policy, China has over 30 million so-called surplus men. Can this dating boot camp help them find love?
December 12, 2025
The Pardon That Represents the New Era of Corruption
The way to oppose President Trump’s era of corrupt deal making is to present the American people with a clear and principled alternative.
December 12, 2025
Thomas L. Friedman Says We’re in a New Epoch. David Brooks Has Questions.
Two columnists debate this strange moment.
December 12, 2025
David Ellison Is Playing a Dangerous Game
David Ellison is cozying up to Trump in his effort to save Hollywood. It’s a risky strategy for our democracy.
December 12, 2025
America’s Military Needs a Culture Shift
The benefits of serving have never been more appealing, but the Pentagon needs a better approach to recruiting new talent.
December 12, 2025
‘We’ve Been Let Down’: 11 Gen Z-ers on the Military, America’s Place in the World and Their Generation
The participants discuss public service, their perception of military service and the state of America in 2025.
December 12, 2025
India’s Season of Sadness
For hundreds of millions of Indians, toxic winter air poisons bodies, constricts lives and wears down spirits.
December 12, 2025
The Duality in Conservative Politics
Andrew Kolvet of Turning Point USA explains why he endorses a tough-love approach to politics on this episode of “Interesting Times.”
December 11, 2025
The ‘Wildness’ of Right-Wing Conspiracy
On a recent episode of “Interesting Times,” Andrew Kolvet shares what it’s like to be on the receiving end of conspiracy theories from other conservative influencers after Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
December 11, 2025
Trump Isn’t Interested in Fighting a New Cold War. He Wants a New Civilizational War.
Trump is not interested in refighting the Cold War. He is, in my view, interested in fighting the civilizational war over what is the American “home.”
December 11, 2025
The Supreme Court and Executive Power
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay about the justices and unitary executive theory. Also: The danger posed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
December 11, 2025
We’re Trying to Find a Line the Supreme Court Won’t Cross
It isn’t easy.
December 11, 2025
Trump’s Approval Ratings Are Low Again. This Time It Might Matter.
Unlike during his last time in the White House, people now disapprove of Trump because of the economy, not in spite of it.
December 11, 2025
Mamdani’s Child Care Plan Is Audacious. Here’s How It Could Work.
If he learns the right lessons, the mayor-elect could pull off something remarkable.
December 11, 2025
Is Anything Holding MAGA Together?
The battle over Charlie Kirk’s legacy is fracturing the right.
December 11, 2025
Who Speaks for MAGA?
The battle over Charlie Kirk’s legacy is fracturing the right.
December 11, 2025
America Can’t Make What the Military Needs
The U.S. defense industry has lost the ability to build quickly and effectively.
December 11, 2025
Trump Is Not Attacking Europe. He’s Attacking Something Else.
It’s an actual place, not an arbitrarily bounded zone.
December 11, 2025
Gavin Newsom: ‘We Failed on the Border’
Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed California to offer health insurance to undocumented immigrants. He also thinks the Democratic Party has failed on border policy in recent years. On a recent episode of “The Ezra Klein Show,” he explains why.
December 11, 2025
Gavin Newsom on California’s ‘Original Sin’
Newsom has emerged as a front-runner for the Democratic Party’s 2028 ticket. But will he be able to reconcile his track record as the governor of one of the least affordable states in the country?
December 11, 2025
Gavin Newsom Is Embracing Contradiction
Gov. Gavin Newsom has resisted the Trump administration with his push to redistrict California, while also inviting major right-wing figures like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk on his podcast. In a recent conversation on “The Ezra Klein Show,” he explains why he’s willing to take these risks.
December 11, 2025
Trumpism Is Global Culture War
The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy is a pivot to the agenda of online reactionaries.
December 10, 2025
The Moral Cost of Our Spectacles of Violence
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Phil Klay. Also: American evangelicals.
December 10, 2025
Are We Losing Our Democracy?
While the United States is not yet close to a full-on autocracy, the New York Times editorial board outlines some of the warning signs of democratic erosion already taking place, thanks to the efforts of President Trump.
December 10, 2025
What My Children Taught Me About Interfaith Tradition
The holidays became easier when my children could meaningfully participate in religious and household rituals.
December 10, 2025
How Gavin Newsom Became the Democrats’ 2028 Front-Runner
How the California governor became the 2028 Democratic front-runner.
December 10, 2025
The Early Decision Option Is a Racket. Shut It Down.
Colleges should not be allowed to squeeze applicants in a vise.
December 10, 2025
America Pours Billions Into the Military. We Don’t Know Where It All Goes.
Wasteful spending and byzantine regulations keep the U.S. military stuck in a failing status quo.
December 10, 2025
$27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That?
The high cost of health care in America is suppressing wages, driving job losses and fueling inequality.
December 10, 2025
The Contradictions of Gavin Newsom
How the California governor became the 2028 Democratic front-runner.
December 10, 2025
Trump Picked This Fight With Maduro. He Can’t Back Down.
If the Trump administration allows Nicolás Maduro to endure, it will signal that a criminal dictatorship masquerading as a state can stare down the United States and win.
December 10, 2025
Europe, Too, Is Worth Fighting For
Provided Europeans want to fight for it.
December 9, 2025
The Resilience of Religious Doubt
Belief is reasonable. Skepticism is inevitable.
December 9, 2025
Trump’s Bleak View of the World
Readers discuss the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy. Also: Hollywood and culture; fighting in a family.
December 9, 2025
Why the ‘Affordability Hoax’ Is a Trap for Trump
I doubt this was what Trump meant when he called himself “Mr. Brexit.”
December 9, 2025
Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists
There’s a big difference between being useful and being respected.
December 9, 2025
Amy Klobuchar: State A.I. Laws Keep Us Safe. Trump’s Next Move Could Upend That.
“One Rulebook” is not the kind of A.I. regulation this country needs.
December 9, 2025
Both Plans to Buy Warner Bros. Are Illegal
Either merger would be bad for the country.
December 9, 2025
How to Resist a Government You Oppose
Through their reporting, M. Gessen and Michelle Goldberg share how regular citizens stand up to their governments in times of democratic free fall.
December 9, 2025
Trump’s New Strategy Document Is Misguided and Dangerous
Threats against us aren’t limited to one hemisphere.
December 9, 2025
This Is the 21st-Century Arms Race. Can America Keep Up?
Innovations in A.I., synthetic biology and quantum computing are set to change war.
December 9, 2025
At the Supreme Court, Scenes From a Judicial Backlash
A case over a firing at the F.T.C. has far-reaching implications for the federal government.
December 9, 2025
America Must Prepare for the Future of War
The nature of war has drastically changed. The editorial board argues that the U.S. must reform its military.
December 8, 2025
Nancy Mace: What’s the Point of Congress?
The system in the House promotes control by party leaders over accountability and achievement.
December 8, 2025
Trump Is Unpopular. Does He Know It?
“I’m not going to make any predictions, but I will say it feels as if right now is the most popular he’s going to be over the next year,” the columnist Jamelle Bouie predicts of Trump.
December 8, 2025
Are Trump’s Boat Attacks a War Crime?
On “The Opinions,” the columnist Jamelle Bouie argues that the president is randomly blowing up boats in the Caribbean — what Bouie calls “criminal murder.”
December 8, 2025
Becoming Caregivers for Aging Parents
Readers respond to Michelle Cottle’s essay about her experience with her parents and the growing caregiver crisis.
December 8, 2025
Trump’s Approval Ratings Have Declined. So Has His Vigor.
Trump’s travails look more and more like Biden’s.
December 8, 2025
Britain’s Struggles Are America’s Future
The latest and best evidence of the damage is a warning about Trump-era tariff policies.
December 8, 2025
Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Must Reinvent Itself
Investing in the old ways of war leaves America at risk.
December 8, 2025
The Supreme Court Is Teeing Up Another Transfer of Power to Trump
Will the court grant a vast transfer of power from Congress to the president?
December 8, 2025
What I Learned When I Dug Into My Retirement Account
Do you know where your retirement savings are invested? When I looked into mine, I discovered that parts of it ran counter to U.S. foreign policy priorities.
December 8, 2025
Can We Agree Kids Don’t Need Doritos at School?
Many states have proposed bans on the sale of ultraprocessed foods in schools. The problem is the way they define ultraprocessing.
December 8, 2025
How to Love Your Country, for Better or Worse
Readers respond to a column by David Brooks about his unconditional love for America.
December 7, 2025
Not All Targeted Killings Are the Same. Hegseth’s Boat Strikes Are Illegal.
A former secretary of homeland security on the illegality of Trump’s boat strikes.
December 7, 2025
Everybody in Hollywood Secretly Hates Netflix. So Now What?
The Warner Bros. deal has the town on edge.
December 7, 2025
This Is What It Looks Like When Your Coalition Is Coming Apart at the Seams
What a special House election just told us.
December 7, 2025
Pay Attention to How You Pay Attention
Pay attention to how you pay attention.
December 7, 2025
The Supreme Court Is Helping Trump Keep His Secrets
Mounting questions will go unanswered because of a Supreme Court decision shielding presidents from scrutiny.
December 7, 2025
A Presidency That Isn’t a Throne
Syrians crave a normal life so fiercely that almost any alternative to al-Assad feels like salvation. That longing is where illusion begins.
December 7, 2025
He Was a C.I.A. Psychiatrist During the Nixon Era. His Files Are Revealing.
After my father-in-law died, we found something interesting in his files.
December 7, 2025
Buy Better, Buy Less, Feel Smug About It
Being a smart consumer has never been easier. Influencers and the fashion industry are all taking advantage of that.
December 7, 2025
How to Help the People Around You
Make yourself an active member of your community.
December 6, 2025
Why Is Christianity So Hard to Find in the Trump Administration?
Not too much religious moralism in the administration, but too little.
December 6, 2025
Netflix’s Swallowing of Warner Bros. Will Be the End of Hollywood
The demise of Hollywood has been predicted many times. If Netflix is allowed to acquire Warner Bros., it might actually happen.
December 6, 2025
The Supreme Court Is Failing at Its Most Important Job
Until the court imposes limits, the administration will keep acting as if there are none.
December 6, 2025
Pete Hegseth Is Ordering Executions at Sea
Did Pete Hegseth break the law after authorizing Venezuelan boat strikes? The Times Opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, argues that there are multiple reasons the strikes were legally dubious.
December 6, 2025
Leaving Hungry Pols to Help Hungry Kids
Share Our Strength takes on what both parties leave behind.
December 6, 2025
Republicans Are Quietly Pushing Back Against Trump
Will the president soon wish he hadn’t run for a second term?
December 6, 2025
Have You Listened to a Good Book Lately?
Readers respond to a librarian who wrote that listening to a book qualifies as reading.
December 6, 2025
Republicans Are Quietly Pushing Back Against Trump
Will the president soon wish he hadn’t run for a second term?
December 6, 2025
How One Student’s Failing Grade Became a Cause Célèbre on the Right
When students are treated like customers, they can demand educators grade accordingly.
December 6, 2025
Trumpism After Trump? Here Are Three Realities.
“Trumpism without Trump is going to move in different directions because Trumpism was always a somewhat amorphous set of half-baked ideas,” Bret Stephens says.
December 5, 2025
How Charismatic Can a Moderate Politician Be?
“I think Americans — those who are not spending all their lives on social media — are so tired of the temperature of our political discourse,” Frank Bruni says on “The Opinions.” The solution? A “poetic and charismatic” centrist.
December 5, 2025
‘The American Revolution’ Is Not Woke. It’s Magnificent.
Don’t be shocked: There were Black people and Native Americans during the colonial era.
December 5, 2025
My Somali Role Models in Minnesota
Readers react to President Trump’s disparaging comments about Somalis in the U.S. Also: Academic censorship; a prejudice against psychiatric medication.
December 5, 2025
What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
We need to question the strikes’ legality. But we also need to see how they fit into the Trump administration’s larger effort to change America.
December 5, 2025
What Zillow Won’t Tell You
When buyers can’t see the climate risks of prospective homes up front, they may take on more exposure than they can afford.
December 5, 2025
We Rejected This Practice 60 Years Ago. We Must Do So Again Today.
Once nativism escalates, it’s hard to stop.
December 5, 2025
Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan
We are seeing an intentional effort from justices to rebalance the separation of powers in the federal government.
December 5, 2025
2025 Is Almost Over. What Just Happened?
Ezra Klein answers your questions on the year’s political lessons, the struggles of young men and handling heat on the show.
December 5, 2025
Don’t Fear the Bubble Bursting
Generative A.I. needs a course correction for the sake of energy efficiency and for its own advancement.
December 5, 2025
The Hidden Cost of Your Avocado
Cartel extortion is pushing up prices in Mexico — and becoming a political problem President Claudia Sheinbaum can’t ignore.
December 5, 2025
How to Find a Date in a Country With Over 30 Million Extra Men
A decade after the end of the one-child policy, China has over 30 million so-called surplus men. Can this dating boot camp help them find love?
December 5, 2025
Only the Lonely
A decade after the end of the one-child policy, China has over 30 million so-called surplus men. Can this dating boot camp help them find love?
December 4, 2025
Ilhan Omar: Trump Knows He’s Failing. Cue the Bigotry.
Attacks on Somali Americans are a cruel distraction.
December 4, 2025
What Are the Lessons in the Epstein Files?
Readers discuss an essay by Anand Giridharadas about Jeffrey Epstein’s circle. Also: The White House ballroom; Medicare for All; immigrant fears.
December 4, 2025
Transitioning Felt Like ‘Coming Home’
In this episode of “Interesting Times,” Chase Strangio tells Ross Douthat how important it was to align his body with his sense of self.
December 4, 2025
The Shifting Politics Around Transgender Rights
The A.C.L.U. lawyer Chase Strangio joins Ross Douthat to discuss policies and attitudes toward young people who want to transition.
December 4, 2025
Pete Hegseth Is Doing Something Even Worse Than Breaking the Law
Trump and Hegseth are attacking the very character and identity of the American military.
December 4, 2025
I’m an Immigration Lawyer. Trump Is Shattering My Clients’ Lives.
The administration is pausing asylum and upending families.
December 4, 2025
The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute
Having “real estate deal guys” as America’s negotiators on the war in Ukraine is a liability, not an advantage. You want a statesman.
December 4, 2025
‘This Is Illegal,’ He Said, Spreading His Arms. ‘This Is Illegal.’
In Gaza and the West Bank, human rights work is starting to mean something new.
December 4, 2025
He’s Unpopular. A Lame Duck. And Taking Heat From Multiple Directions.
Rare pushback from his party and troubling poll numbers reflect the newly precarious situation in which Trump finds himself.
December 4, 2025
What Is Going On With Trump?
Bret Stephens, Frank Bruni and Aaron Retica on the gap between the president’s interests and what matters to Americans.
December 4, 2025
The Shifting Politics of Transgender Rights
The lawyer and activist Chase Strangio on cultural divisions and common ground.
December 4, 2025
Where Does the Transgender Rights Movement Go From Here?
The lawyer and activist Chase Strangio on cultural divisions and common ground.
December 4, 2025
The Conversation: Your Questions Answered
Bret Stephens, Frank Bruni and Aaron Retica on the gap between Trump’s interests and what matters to Americans.
December 4, 2025
Trump’s Xenophobic ‘Garbage’ Rant
Readers criticize President Trump’s tirade against Somali immigrants. Also: A cruel deportee deal; beyond tech bans.
December 3, 2025
Why the Free Birth Movement’s Popularity Threatens Public Health
Having a baby without any medical help is the logical outcome of a centuries-long medical freedom movement.
December 3, 2025
Help a Magazine That Dares to Tell the Truth
Jewish Currents is fighting the good fight.
December 3, 2025
Should We All Want Lily Allen’s Midlife Crisis?
A singer’s almost totally relatable look at the woes of aging.
December 3, 2025
Trump Is Wreaking Havoc With His Favorite Power
In the right hands, the pardon power is too strong. In the wrong hands, it is disastrous.
December 3, 2025
Trump Has Made the Epstein Saga a Case Study in Manipulation
Even if the wisdom of releasing the files is a nuanced issue, the president’s behavior has been indefensible.
December 3, 2025
What the Left Could Learn From Trump’s Brutal Efficiency
Progressives have an opportunity to start thinking boldly again about how to conceive of and use public authority for Americans.
December 3, 2025
They Were Supposed to Save Europe. Instead, They’re Condemning It to Horrors.
Centrist governments are failing badly in Europe’s leading economies, setting the stage for a far-right sweep.
December 3, 2025
The Liberal Order Can’t Heal Itself
Our problems run deeper than debates about affordability.
December 2, 2025
How to Respond, Right Now, to Trump’s Boat Strikes
Federal lawmakers have ample powers to uncover and end administration abuse.
December 2, 2025
Giving In to Putin Would Give Up More Than Ukraine
Don’t let Trump sell out its freedom for business deals with Putin.
December 2, 2025
Hegseth Under Scrutiny in Lethal Boat Strikes
Readers discuss the aftermath of a U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean. Also: Fixing Penn Station; Trumpism after Trump.
December 2, 2025
We Have a Way to Pay for Free Buses. It Means Free Street Parking Is Over.
Free buses would be transformative not only for riders, but for the ecosystem of the city as a whole.
December 2, 2025
The Aesthetic That Explains American Identity Now
Why country and cowboys have a hold on our culture and our political imagination.
December 2, 2025
Republicans’ War on Property Taxes Will Lose Them the Suburbs
Suburban professionals want amenities, not austerity.
December 2, 2025
We Had Never Touched. Then Came Our Wedding Night.
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish filmmaker asks members of her community about the silent anxieties surrounding intimacy on their wedding nights.
December 2, 2025
‘The $64,000 Question Is What Happens When He Is Gone’
A field guide to the MAGA movement and its future.
December 2, 2025
The Architect Who Designed New York City Like a 1930s Movie
He was, in the very best way, the Ralph Lauren of architects.
December 2, 2025
The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course.
Compared to human drivers, Waymo cars were involved in 91 percent fewer crashes that resulted in serious injuries.
December 2, 2025
The First Night
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish filmmaker asks members of her community about the silent anxieties surrounding intimacy on their wedding nights.
December 2, 2025
Japan Has Changed How the World Must Think About Taiwan
The Japanese leader’s candor over Taiwan brought the shared regional stakes out into the open, and the U.S. must stand behind its ally.
December 2, 2025
A Serious Journalism Scandal Hiding Inside a Frivolous Sexual One
Olivia Nuzzi doesn’t seem to recognize that her collaboration with Robert Kennedy was a grave professional betrayal.
December 2, 2025
Cory Booker Wants You to Have Hope
“If America hasn’t broken your heart, you don’t love her enough,” Cory Booker tells David Leonhardt in this episode of “The Opinions.”
December 1, 2025
I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain
Jack Conte, the chief executive of Patreon, a platform for creators to monetize their art and content, outlines his vision for an internet that puts people, not ad revenues, first.
December 1, 2025
The Aftermath of the D.C. Shooting
Readers discuss the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington. Also: Being Latino in the U.S.; wonderful mentors.
December 1, 2025
Where Is the Will to Win in Ukraine?
Victory will belong not to the side with more resources, but to the side with the stronger, more adaptive and unyielding will to win.
December 1, 2025
Farewell to the Beloved Friend in My Window
Winter won’t hold forever, and when it comes, a spider will disappear from the corner where she has made her home.
December 1, 2025
This Holiday Season, Give the Gift That Keeps on Sniffing
A North Carolina organization delivers salvation on four legs.
December 1, 2025
I’m an A.I. Developer. Here’s How I’m Raising My Son.
I help to build A.I. systems, and even I know there are real reasons to be concerned about how A.I. affects our children.
December 1, 2025
This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza
It may be tempting to memory hole what happened in Gaza. That would only compound the mistake of ignoring, or rationalizing, an intolerable reality.
December 1, 2025
Americans Won’t Have Faith in the Rule of Law Until the Law Works for Them
Mandatory arbitration, underfunded enforcement and corporate malfeasance have eroded Americans’ trust in institutions. It’s time for government to fight back.
December 1, 2025
The Virus That Took My Father Could Become a Greater Threat
Changes to the vaccine recommendation could be disastrous.
December 1, 2025
Don’t Be Fooled by the Silence in America’s Backyard
Latin Americans have proved surprisingly acquiescent to U.S. aggression — but that won’t last forever.
December 1, 2025
The Uneasy Mix of God and Country
Readers respond to a column by David Brooks about Christian nationalism. Also: A hope for a different kind of president; a view of Meta as not a monopoly.
November 30, 2025
The Case for Ending a Long, Mostly Good Marriage
Four years ago, my husband and I made an increasingly common choice: We hugged, apologized for our shortcomings and freed each other.
November 30, 2025
‘I’ve Been Doing This Work for 25 Years, and I’ve Never Seen Such Fear’
When ICE arrived in Chicago, this group had an answer.
November 30, 2025
The Fool’s Guide to Major Life Decisions
Instead of going to therapy for $100 a week, I began to invest in an astrological session every few months.
November 30, 2025
My Patient Was Making a Fatal Decision. What Could I Do?
A doctor grapples with a patient’s incomprehensible medical decision.
November 30, 2025
America Has Sidelined Education. You Can Help.
The New York Times Communities Fund has partnered with charities that invest in education at critical junctures across people’s life spans.
November 30, 2025
How We Became ‘Half in Love With Easeful Death’
Apocalyptic predictions may actually serve as comforting fantasies, at which point our future freakouts become an excuse for inaction.
November 30, 2025
The Quest for Perfection Is Stunting Our Society
It is not only classical musicians who are being harmed by the search for perfection. It is harming many aspects of our lives and sectors of our society.
November 29, 2025
Project NICU Helps Parents Manage a Rough Start
The organization provides critical support to families of sick newborns, making a lonely and devastating experience a little less so.
November 29, 2025
The Salmon That Surprised Everyone
Although nature is sometimes very fragile, decades of conservation rhetoric have perhaps overstated that fragility.
November 29, 2025
How I Began to Love Reading Again
I needed to stop thinking that I knew more than the author and give in to whatever ride they had spent years planning.
November 29, 2025
Paper-and-Pen Diaries Are Forever
In a world taken over by the digital, hard-copy, handwritten diaries are a way to fight back.
November 29, 2025
Trump Is Trying to Kill the Education Department Because He Misunderstands Its History
The U.S. first had a federal education department in 1867 — not 1979. Its history is critical in understanding the federal role in schools.
November 29, 2025
A ‘Floor’ on Abortion Is Still a Limit
Readers respond to an editorial about access to abortion. Also: A citizenship test for our leaders.
November 28, 2025
Goodbye, Price Tags. Hello, Dynamic Pricing.
Shopping has always been a game. And now it’s being rigged against you.
November 28, 2025
Every Generation Gets the Shakespeare It Deserves
Our love of his plays have led to a centuries-long fascination with the writer. So why does each new fictional iteration get his life so wrong?
November 28, 2025
Goodbye, Price Tags. Hello, Dynamic Pricing.
Shopping has always been a game. And now it’s being rigged against you.
November 28, 2025
What I Love When I Love America
My love of country this Thanksgiving season is not based on what this or that politician does, but on what America has always been.
November 28, 2025
Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld.
The internet is a dangerous place. Folklore can teach us how to move through it.
November 28, 2025
It Is Time to Bury Franco’s Ghost
Fifty years after the death of the Spanish dictator, his legacy lives on.
November 28, 2025
Give to Groups Defending Immigrants From ICE
These organizations are squeezed between an expanding need for their services and an administration trying to starve them of resources.
November 28, 2025
Mamdani, His Mother and a Movie of Prescient Grace
The mayor-elect ran a hopeful campaign amid ugly insinuations about 9/11. When I recall where I was on that day, I have a very different association.
November 28, 2025
My Antidote to Early Evening Despair
As long as I get myself to pay attention, there is too much going on in the kitchen world for me to spin off into anxious abstraction.
November 28, 2025
Goodbye, Price Tags. Hello, Dynamic Pricing.
Shopping has always been a game. And now it’s being rigged against you.
November 28, 2025
The Uniquely American Heartbreak of Yet Another Tragedy
The National Guard members shot in Washington are the latest victims of a political violence permeating our society.
November 27, 2025
Extreme Measures for the Fentanyl Crisis
Readers respond to a guest essay about America’s fentanyl problem. Also: A dark echo at Penn.
November 27, 2025
‘We Are Going to Have to Fight Three Wars’
How much will Trump ask Zelensky to pay for peace in Ukraine?
November 27, 2025
A Pardoned Turkey, an Unpardonable Man
Many affluent Americans no longer believe in civic institutions or community groups.
November 27, 2025
Trump’s Greedy Thanksgiving
This year, it’s not about giving back; it’s about getting yours.
November 27, 2025
The Best Way to Help People Facing Catastrophe? Give Them Money.
With suffering everywhere, give directly to those most in need and help those around you.
November 27, 2025
Time to Let My Brother Kevin Do the Carving
My brother takes a slice out of Trump and Mamdani.
November 27, 2025
This Centuries-Old Tradition Is Needed Now More Than Ever
The number of Americans eating alone has increased by 53 percent since 2003.
November 27, 2025
America, the Hungry
One in seven people in America lives with hunger. These are their stories.
November 27, 2025
‘I’m Literally So Hungry, It’s All I Can Think Of’
We spoke with dozens of people living with hunger in the United States. These are their stories.
November 27, 2025
I’m 62. Stop Telling Me I’m Old.
Ken Stern on why Americans should stop classifying 65 as “old.”
November 27, 2025
America, the Hungry
One in seven people in America lives with hunger. These are their stories.
November 27, 2025
We Can’t Diet and Exercise Our Way Out of the Next Pandemic
The N.I.H. director has learned all the wrong lessons from Covid.
November 26, 2025
The High Stakes in the Ukraine Talks
Readers discuss the proposed deal to end the war between Ukraine and Russia. Also: Immigrant family separations; unplugging A.I.
November 26, 2025
Jesus Bot Is Always on Demand (for a Small Monthly Fee)
Faith is not meant to be transactional or tailored to you.
November 26, 2025
Mark Kelly Is Being Investigated for Telling the Truth
Who wants to silence a senator? I’ll give you one guess.
November 26, 2025
Has Marjorie Taylor Greene Really Seen the Light?
This is a classic breakup drama.
November 26, 2025
I Prosecuted R. Kelly. This Is Why the Epstein Files Should Be Redacted.
Releasing the documents wholesale could hinder prosecutions and inflict new trauma on victims.
November 26, 2025
A Retired Police Officer Posted a Meme. It Earned Him 37 Days in Jail.
The best way to honor Charlie Kirk is not to criminalize speech.
November 26, 2025
Life Is Too Short to Fight With Your Family
There’s good evidence that learning to live with your loved ones just as they are leads to more happiness for you.
November 26, 2025
A.I.’s Anti-A.I. Marketing Strategy
Artificial intelligence is unpopular and uncool — so A.I. companies are making ads that don’t even bother to show their own products. Will it pay off?
November 26, 2025
9,192,631,770 Hz
How do we measure time? Technically, by the oscillations of a cesium atom. This film tells a human story behind an element from the periodic table: cesium.
November 26, 2025
The Broken Circle
Farmers in Northwest China confront their drying landscape by planting trees as coal burns relentlessly nearby. This film tells a human story behind an element from the periodic table: carbon.
November 26, 2025
BAEA
A bald eagle is treated for lead poisoning, becoming a symbol of a toxic system that threatens us all. This film tells a human story behind an element from the periodic table: lead.
November 26, 2025
Give Nuclear Power Another Chance
California and eight other states have outdated restrictions on building nuclear power plants.
November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving Is an Opportunity for a National Reset
An opportunity for families and friends and, by extension, communities, states, and the country itself to have a national reset.
November 25, 2025
These Are the Elements That Define Us
A series of short films about how the elements of the periodic table shape our lives.
November 25, 2025
Tatiana Schlossberg’s Profile in Courage
Readers express sorrow about her cancer and dismay at her cousin’s actions as health secretary. Also: Revenge prosecutions; Mark Kelly; donors to universities.
November 25, 2025
Why Trump Won’t Face Prosecution When He Leaves Office in 2029
The president has a very big immunity umbrella.
November 25, 2025
The Comfort of Bringing the Same Dish Every Time
Like your astrological sign, what you bring says a lot about who you are.
November 25, 2025
Donate to Help Build Community in the Mideast
This holiday season, I am donating to nonprofits that help make community ecosystems and nature’s ecosystems more resilient.
November 25, 2025
I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble.
A journey to the fringe of MAHA.
November 25, 2025
Republicans Have an A.I. Plan. Democrats, Not So Much.
To stay relevant for 2028, the party needs to figure one out.
November 25, 2025
Trump Falls Short of His Populist Rhetoric
The Trump administration is using its antitrust powers mostly to protect Mr. Trump.
November 25, 2025
The Incomprehensible March Toward Regime Change in Venezuela
The administration’s drug war rhetoric seems like a pretext. But a pretext for what?
November 25, 2025
Yes, We Must Talk About Epstein
Readers strongly object to David Brooks’s argument that we should focus on more important issues. Also: Firings at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
November 24, 2025
The Outrageous False Equivalences That Prop Up President Trump
Aren’t his apologists exhausted by their moral calisthenics?
November 24, 2025
QAnon Isn’t So Thrilled About the Epstein Revelations
It has a little something to do with Donald Trump.
November 24, 2025
Cory Booker on What It Takes to Believe in America Again
“If America hasn’t broken your heart, you don’t love her enough,” the New Jersey senator argues.
November 24, 2025
James Carville: Out With Woke. In With Rage.
Democrats also have to shed the last vestiges of woke.
November 24, 2025
The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning.
November 24, 2025
The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart
Caregivers are at the brink of despair.
November 24, 2025
Cory Booker on What It Takes to Believe in America Again
“If America hasn’t broken your heart, you don’t love her enough,” the New Jersey senator argues.
November 24, 2025
In an Italian Masterpiece, Art and Faith Meet
Readers respond to a guest essay about the religious feelings inspired by Fra Angelico’s painting. Also: Down times at the movies.
November 23, 2025
Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation
Who should take responsibility for the president’s undeclared war in the Caribbean?
November 23, 2025
America’s Housing Crisis, in One Chart
If we want more places for people to live, we’re going to have to get more creative.
November 23, 2025
The Bad Reasoning in the Meta Antitrust Ruling Isn’t Even the Worst Part
All you need is common sense.
November 23, 2025
How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
This power elite was already used to ignoring the powerless. Redeeming a disgraced sex offender was a logical next step.
November 23, 2025
We’re Seeing What a No-Immigration Economy Looks Like
Making America less hospitable to newcomers will eventually make our country poorer.
November 23, 2025
I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales.
This is not your average chatbot.
November 23, 2025
Do Audiobooks Count as Reading?
We need to let go of our legacy print snobbery.
November 23, 2025
Trump’s Neville Chamberlain Prize
If Ukraine is forced to surrender to these terms, Thanksgiving will no longer be an American holiday but a Russian one.
November 22, 2025
Trump Is Mired in a War of Attrition
It’s not a winning strategy.
November 22, 2025
Trump Is Down Again. His Way Back Up This Time Is Not So Clear.
There are no easy answers for the current economic discontent.
November 22, 2025
Don’t Miss This: Epstein Edition
The Epstein files are coming. But will Americans be able to fully trust them?
November 22, 2025
A Call to Purge Washington of Epstein’s Associates
The release of more Epstein files could take down many prominent men in Washington — both Republicans and Democrats. But for the columnist Lydia Polgreen, the purge is not a bad thing. “You need this renewal,” she says on this episode of “The Opinions.”
November 22, 2025
Piggy Gets Polite
Trump, remarkably, finds a new low.
November 22, 2025
Jeffrey Epstein’s Victims Speak Out
On Tuesday, victims of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein gathered to bring attention to the House vote to release the Epstein files. On this episode of “The Opinions,” the contributing Opinion writer Molly Jong-Fast describes the connection these women felt with one another and with their Republican advocate Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. “They’re not faking it,” Jong-Fast says. “They had a real camaraderie.”
November 22, 2025
Trump Says the Epstein Documents Will Hurt Democrats, Too. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.
“You need this renewal. You need new figures who are untouched, who were never part of these awful power games,” the columnist Lydia Polgreen argues.
November 22, 2025
The Real Epstein Cover-Up
Once again, we see how far this country will go to maintain the power of men at the expense of women’s bodies.
November 22, 2025
The Real Reason Trump Is Fawning Over Saudi Arabia’s Ruler
The story begins in the 1970s.
November 22, 2025
Remedies for the Burdens of Medical School
Readers respond to a guest essay proposing a shortened three-year course of study for aspiring doctors.
November 22, 2025
Gifts You Can Give That Save Lives
Each dollar you donate through my holiday guide will generate $4 to nonprofits that are making our world a better place.
November 22, 2025
7 Experts on How to Actually End the War in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has become a fateful conflict of Russia and the West.
November 22, 2025
Epstein and the #MeToo of It All
“You need this renewal. You need new figures who are untouched, who were never part of these awful power games,” the columnist Lydia Polgreen argues.
November 22, 2025
Mamdani’s Surreal and Shrewd Pragmatism
Since his election, Zohran Mamdani has made some surprisingly pragmatic or traditional choices — including his surreal meeting with President Trump.
November 22, 2025
Don’t Push Russia’s Bad Deal on Ukraine
War and diplomacy: Readers react to developments on Russia and Ukraine. Also: A global democracy deficit; a sad phone.
November 21, 2025
The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.
Conspiracy mongering about Epstein is making the progressive project impossible.
November 21, 2025
‘The More It’s Just About Trump, the Bigger the Eventual Crackup’
Thoughts on current and future of “a coalition uniquely built by Trump.”
November 21, 2025
The Thucydides Trap Is Coming for America
The United States, not China, seems determined to upend the global order.
November 21, 2025
Does Trump Know the Price of Milk?
From the day he took the oath of office, the president has pursued policies that are making life in America less affordable.
November 21, 2025
‘The System Is Meant to Break You’: What ICE Is Doing to People Here Legally
Something new is happening in the breadth and ferocity of efforts to change the makeup of this country.
November 21, 2025
I’m in Venezuela. This Is the True Cost of Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy.
Trump’s show of force toward Venezuela has created a disastrous political trap — for Venezuelans most of all.
November 21, 2025
Trump’s National Guard Blunder
A brief history of the National Guard in Washington.
November 21, 2025
Can the Right Confront Antisemitism in Its Ranks?
Why is it so hard for the right to draw a boundary at antisemitism in its coalition? According to Yoram Hazony, an Israeli political theorist, it’s because the group wasn’t prepared to navigate the “explosion” of antisemitism. In this week’s “Interesting Times,” he tells Ross Douthat how future leaders can have a bigger tent without giving people like Nick Fuentes “a seat at the table.”
November 21, 2025
Is the Gaza War Contributing to Antisemitism?
Is the recent onslaught of antisemitism on the right a result of the Israel-Hamas war? In this episode of “Interesting Times,” Yoram Hazony, an Israeli political theorist, explains how foreign policy is just one of the various forms that anti-Jewish messaging can take.
November 21, 2025
Trump’s Slip With the Saudi Crown Prince
Readers discuss what President Trump revealed in his meeting with the Saudi crown prince. Also: Albania’s A.I. “civil servant”; bullfighting as torture.
November 20, 2025
Our Depressing Vaccine Future Laid Bare on the C.D.C. Website
Kennedy has a rhetorical advantage in that his deceptions can be definitive while scientific honesty has to come with caveats.
November 20, 2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene Was Not on Our Bingo Card
Have we been selling her short? Is she paving the way to the after-Trump?
November 20, 2025
It’s Deeper Than Nick Fuentes
Understanding the Right’s antisemitic turn.
November 20, 2025
The Comey Case Is Now Officially a Comedy of Errors
The incompetence of the Trump administration is interfering with some of its worst excesses.
November 20, 2025
Understanding the Right’s Antisemitic Turn
It’s deeper than Nick Fuentes.
November 20, 2025
How to Resist a Populist Mayor and a Populist President
Hochul can show how Democrats wary of a mayor-elect’s populist brand of socialism can push back against it.
November 20, 2025
A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK.
Investors’ excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.
November 20, 2025
Mateo’s Choice: Is Applying for Asylum Worth the Risk of Deportation?
For one undocumented teenager, there is no clear answer.
November 20, 2025
No, Mr. President, We Cannot ‘Leave It at That’
Working with imperfect partners does not mean that the United States should cover up and lie about their misdeeds.
November 19, 2025
To Understand America’s Border Surge, You Have to Look Elsewhere
All politics is global now — and that's especially true around immigration.
November 19, 2025
Trump’s Embrace of the Saudi Crown Prince
Readers react to the White House meeting between President Trump and the Saudi crown prince. Also: Skin care for little kids; when libraries close.
November 19, 2025
How Rural Kids Got Left Behind
We need to support working-class kids before the 21st century abandons them completely.
November 19, 2025
The White House Gold Rush Is On
They came bearing gifts. They left with what they wanted.
November 19, 2025
Endless Gossipy Chatter About Epstein. One Glaring Omission.
Women’s pain is not entertainment.
November 19, 2025
I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain
The internet should enrich people, not advertisers.
November 19, 2025
I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain
The internet should enrich people, not advertisers.
November 19, 2025
The Moment China Proved It Was America’s Equal
Trump’s ill-conceived tariff war exposed U.S. vulnerabilities, strengthened China’s leverage and undermined America at a pivotal time.
November 19, 2025
What Is Post-Liberalism, Anyway?
Notes on an unstable but necessary idea.
November 18, 2025
On Republican Neo-Nazism, Hamas and Israel: An Epidemic of Moral Cowardice
People with extreme ideology don’t care anymore about hiding their excesses or their agendas. It’s all out there online or on YouTube.
November 18, 2025
The Three G.O.P. Women Who Broke Trump’s Grip on Congress
Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy Mace resisted pressure from the president and made the vote to release the Epstein files possible.
November 18, 2025
Views of Consciousness, Human and A.I.
Readers respond to a guest essay about artificial (and human) intelligence and consciousness. Also: Kennedy Center ripple effects; cobblestone streets.
November 18, 2025
Who’s Afraid of Tucker Carlson? I Can Think of Two People.
The price of “no enemies on the right” is going up.
November 18, 2025
The Democrat Who Split MAGA Over the Epstein Files
Ro Khanna argues that even though there is a risk in releasing the documents, it still needs to happen.
November 18, 2025
Where, oh Where, Will the First Female President Come From?
The election of Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger has deepened the pool of potential Oval Office occupants.
November 18, 2025
The World’s Most Shameless Public Figure Does It Again
In the face of shareholders, corporate boards and even judges, Tesla’s chief executive shows what he can get away with.
November 18, 2025
‘We Lost Our Mission’: Three University Leaders on the Future of Higher Ed
The view from Dartmouth, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wesleyan.
November 18, 2025
Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever
Life lessons from the “Godmother of Punk.”
November 18, 2025
Trump Made the Citizenship Test Harder. What if Every American Had to Take It?
We should not demand ever more knowledge of newcomers and ever less of our current citizens.
November 18, 2025
Anorexia Was My Revolt Against Mother Nature
My sister and I went on a joint diet. She stopped and I didn’t.
November 18, 2025
Am I the Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen?
My sister and I went on a joint diet. She stopped and I didn’t.
November 18, 2025
Nothing Succeeds With Trump Quite Like Success
Ukraine understands this. Europe should get on board with it, too.
November 18, 2025
Inside ICE Detention
They came to the U.S. legally. ICE jailed them anyway. Jemmy Jimenez Rosa, Ayman Soliman and Jasmine Mooney share their stories from inside a cruel detention system that operates with impunity.
November 18, 2025
The MAGA Crackup Might Finally Be Here
Even if the Epstein files never come out, it’s increasingly clear that a Trump coalition is fragmenting.
November 18, 2025
The Case for Overthrowing Maduro
Thinking through the argument for intervention in Venezuela.
November 17, 2025
Trump’s New Take on the Epstein Files
Readers react to developments in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Also: A teacher’s suspension.
November 17, 2025
A Surprising State Could Help Democrats Win the Senate
The path is more promising than you think.
November 17, 2025
A Conservative Vision for America After Trump
Can the right find its way back to small government? Sarah Isgur thinks so.
November 17, 2025
We Followed the Rules. ICE Jailed Us Anyway.
The brutal detention of three people who came to the U.S. legally reveals a cruel system that operates with impunity.
November 17, 2025
Here’s What Trump Should Actually Do for Fertility
Trump’s policies on in vitro fertilization are underwhelming but his announcement still made me optimistic.
November 17, 2025
This Is How Our Economy Comes Crashing Down
Some of the pieces seem fine, but the base is increasingly fragile.
November 17, 2025
The Lesson We Teach Schoolchildren About the Holocaust Is Wrong
First they came for whom?
November 17, 2025
The Sad and Dangerous Reality Behind ‘Her’
At least a quarter of the more than 100 billion messages sent to our chatbots are attempts to initiate romantic or sexual exchanges.
November 17, 2025
We Came Here Legally. ICE Locked Us Up Anyway.
The brutal detention of three people who came to the United States reveals a cruel system that operates with impunity.
November 17, 2025
A Crown Prince With a New Set of Priorities
The crown prince will meet President Trump with an agenda aimed at protecting the kingdom’s interests.
November 17, 2025
James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.
James Watson’s legacy is a cautionary tale against letting a profound discovery shape your entire worldview.
November 16, 2025
Real Solutions for Women in the Workplace
Readers respond to a guest essay by Corinne Low about work boundaries.
November 16, 2025
A Christian Answer to Trump and Trumpism Is Finally Here
Pope Leo doesn’t want to be the anti-Trump. But he is.
November 16, 2025
The Best Gifts Don’t Cost Money. Tell Us About Your Favorite.
The gifts that cost the least are sometimes the ones that mean the most. Share yours with NYT Opinion.
November 16, 2025
Ecuador’s Iron Fist Is Failing. U.S. Troops Won’t Help.
Ecuador Can’t Shoot Its Way to Peace
November 16, 2025
Economists Hate This Idea. It Could Be a Way Out of the Affordability Crisis.
Voters are demanding short-term price relief, and temporary price controls may be the only viable way to provide it
November 16, 2025
Adam Sandler Is the Light We Need. Yes, Adam Sandler.
When I took my dad to see Adam Sandler live, I expected to laugh. We both got so much more.
November 16, 2025
The Screen That Ate Your Child’s Education
Asking students to drill down on their schoolwork amid an array of digital distractions is inimical to learning.
November 16, 2025
JD Vance Is Idling at the Edges of American Politics
Why doesn’t the vice president have more to say about Nick Fuentes?
November 15, 2025
This Play Is an Antidote to Women’s Despair
The show, in its depiction of the early feminist movement, is an essential part of the ongoing fight for women’s progress.
November 15, 2025
The Outstanding Question About Epstein and Trump
What unrevealed details have made Trump so intent on preventing further disclosure?
November 15, 2025
Why Didn’t ‘A House of Dynamite’ Show a Nuclear Explosion?
Hollywood refuses to show the brutal reality of nuclear war.
November 15, 2025
Has Epstein Stained Trump for Good?
In the Epstein saga, Trump is his own worst enemy.
November 15, 2025
The BBC Is in Trouble, and It Keeps Making Things Worse
The question of how to be a public broadcaster for everyone isn’t going to get easier, but the British broadcaster can do better in the attempt.
November 15, 2025
America’s Formula for Greatness Is Under Threat
Education, open markets, trade and immigration transformed the United States into the world’s dominant power, but each is now being weakened.
November 15, 2025
I Am a Drug Historian. Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way.
Everything the Trump administration is doing to stop the flow of drugs is just making the problem worse.
November 15, 2025
Did the Right Find Success With an Old Playbook?
Readers respond to David Brooks’s theory that the Trump administration has co-opted the tactics of the radical left.
November 15, 2025
In the Epstein Saga, Trump Is His Own Worst Enemy
Is this the beginning of the end for Trump and his MAGA base?
November 15, 2025
How Epstein Could Divide Republicans
“There’s not going to be a flood of Republicans fleeing Trump,” argues the Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie in this episode of “The Opinions.” Instead, he predicts “small calculations here and there” from Republicans who might start to vote against Trump.
November 14, 2025
Trump’s Worst Enemy? Himself.
After this week’s release of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails and Trump’s questionable behavior, it seems that the president’s public standing is declining. “It makes it look like you have published a book titled ‘If I Did It,’” Jamelle Bouie says. Ultimately, Trump can’t help himself — and neither can MAGA.
November 14, 2025
Could the Antichrist Be a Machine?
Technology is killing us physically and spiritually, the author Paul Kingsnorth argues on “Interesting Times.”
November 14, 2025
The Spiritual Darkness Driving Silicon Valley
Is technology killing us? The author Paul Kingsnorth argues that it is, both physically and spiritually.
November 14, 2025
The Antisemitic Coalition Emerging in the G.O.P.
The MAGA coalition has been fighting over Tucker Carlson’s interview with the white nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes and where to draw the line on antisemitism. On “The Ezra Klein Show,” the political writer John Ganz argues that the interview represented the intersection of two archetypes of antisemitism and what he calls “the creation of an actual antisemitic politics.”
November 14, 2025
The Double Standard of Right-Wing Antisemitism
Tucker Carlson’s interview with the white nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes has provoked a conversation within the Republican Party about antisemitism and anti-Zionism, with prominent right-wing figures like Ben Shapiro and Steve Bannon weighing in. The political writer John Ganz explains why the commentary is ultimately “self-defeating” in a conversation on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
November 14, 2025
Have C-Sections Become Too Common?
Readers respond to a front-page article about fetal heart monitoring and C-sections. Also: When Shirley MacLaine was the understudy.
November 14, 2025
‘This Is the War Against Human Nature’
Paul Kingsnorth argues technology is killing us - physically and spiritually.
November 14, 2025
Democrats Need a Wartime Consigliere. Hakeem Jeffries Isn’t One.
The House Democratic leader’s fatal flaw may be that he is too unobjectionable for a Democratic Party spoiling for a fight with President Trump.
November 14, 2025
Trump’s Spending Abuses Are Out of Control
Trump’s actions should alarm anybody who shares the American founders’ suspicion of centralized power.
November 14, 2025
Why Is Ghislaine Maxwell Being Pampered in Prison?
Maybe there’s an innocent explanation for all the privileges she’s being accorded, but I can’t think of one.
November 14, 2025
The ‘Groyperfication’ of the G.O.P.
The political writer John Ganz dissects the Republican Party’s internal battle over antisemitism.
November 14, 2025
‘This Is the War Against Human Nature’
Paul Kingsnorth argues technology is killing us - physically and spiritually.
November 14, 2025
Chris Christie: Keep Sports Betting Legal
Chris Christie argues that regulated betting can strengthen the integrity of sports.
November 14, 2025
Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and the Right’s ‘Groyper’ Problem
The political writer John Ganz dissects the Republican Party’s internal battle over antisemitism.
November 14, 2025
November 13, 2025
How to Replace Christian Nationalism
Once you put people into categorical boxes, you are inviting them to see history as a zero-sum conflict between this group and that one.
November 13, 2025
One Horror of Slavery That Until Recently Could Not Be Told
The evil of human bondage was more complex than many historians care to reckon with.
November 13, 2025
Zohran Mamdani and the Future of New York
Readers discuss Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York, and have plenty of advice for him. Also: Thoughts about exercise.
November 13, 2025
One of the Founders’ Worst Fears Has Been Realized
Trump has a favorite power.
November 13, 2025
A Little, Precious Seedling of Hope
Forget MAGA. Forget MAHA. Let’s make America sane again.
November 13, 2025
Maurene Comey’s Case Is More Consequential Than Her Father’s
What James and Maurene Comey’s cases tell us about President Trump.
November 13, 2025
Voters Crave Action. Democrats Should Listen.
Though G.O.P. members are more likely to be viewed as “extreme,” they trounce their opponents on who is more effective.
November 13, 2025
The China That the World Sees Is Not the One I Live In
Despair about dimming economic and personal prospects has created an outwardly strong, inwardly brittle nation.
November 13, 2025
What the Movies Need From Sydney Sweeney
Only stardom can save Hollywood.
November 12, 2025
The Haves and Have-Nots Are, Once Again, at War
The central dynamic of American politics, underground for a decade, is back.
November 12, 2025
Trump and the Rising Cost of Health Care
Readers respond to news analysis articles about health care and the shutdown. Also: Art in new spaces; what A.I. isn’t.
November 12, 2025
Tim Kaine: Why I Voted to End the Shutdown
Extending the government shutdown would not have worked.
November 12, 2025
Mamdani’s Pro-Family Message Can Be a Template for Democrats
Young people want a positive, urban vision of family.
November 12, 2025
Democrats Sure Taught Trump a Lesson
It’s one he is unlikely to forget.
November 12, 2025
1 Percenters, Quit Bickering About Mamdani and Focus on Trump
The threat from Washington is going to require teamwork.
November 12, 2025
Africa Is Rising. The World Shouldn’t Turn Its Back.
Lydia Polgreen speaks to the former New York Times bureau chief Howard W. French about the cost of not engaging with Africa.
November 12, 2025
You’re a Computer Science Major. Don’t Panic.
We taught a generation how to write code. Now we need to teach future generations how to edit code.
November 12, 2025
I Worked All Over Silicon Valley. This Is How It Lost Its Spine.
The revolutionaries in Silicon Valley are no longer storming the gates. They’re inside the castle, polishing the silverware.
November 12, 2025
Abortion Has Remained Mostly Accessible. That May Soon Change.
American women need the freedom to determine the course of their own lives.
November 12, 2025
Meet the New Antisemites, Same as the Old Antisemites
A bigotry for morons will always be political gold in a world of morons.
November 11, 2025
Teaching History in the Trump Era
Readers respond to an article about how the teaching of U.S. history is changing. Also: Democratic pragmatism; emergency care at risk.
November 11, 2025
Iraq War Veterans, 20 Years Later
“I don’t know how to explain the war to myself,” says a veteran of the Iraq war. In 2003, they were sent to Iraq. Two decades later, veterans from the same unit grapple with their younger selves and try to make sense of the war. Watch the full Op-Docs film, “The Army We Had,” at nytimes.com/column/op-docs.
November 11, 2025
Chuck Schumer Is a Convenient Punching Bag, but He’s Not the Real Problem
The shutdown still may be a net gain for Democrats.
November 11, 2025
Steve Bannon Thinks Zohran Mamdani Is a Genius. It’s Not a Feint.
Key elements of the mayor-elect’s campaign have enormous potential for a party that was badly beaten in 2024.
November 11, 2025
I’m a Psychoanalyst. This Is What Technology Is Doing to Us.
We’ve lost the capacity to feel the grief technology brings.
November 11, 2025
There Is No Cease-Fire in the West Bank
Violence in the occupied territories continues even if hostilities in Gaza have cooled.
November 11, 2025
Cancer Patients Like Me Are Casualties of MAHA’s Hypocrisy
The Trump administration has undermined the once bipartisan war on cancer and declined to approve a promising melanoma therapy.
November 11, 2025
This Is No Way to Rule a Country
Governments shouldn’t hand over decision-making to A.I.
November 11, 2025
If Only More Americans Could See This Place
To imagine the cost of an “America First” policy, walk through World War II cemeteries in Europe.
November 11, 2025
Alex Karp Went From Biden Donor to Trump Enabler. Why?
A tech billionaire professes to hate identity politics, but they seem in some ways to consume him.
November 11, 2025
What Were Democrats Thinking?
Democrats weren’t winning the shutdown. But they weren’t losing it, either. Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein argues that Democrats were just starting to get the public’s attention: “If Donald Trump wants to cancel flights across Thanksgiving in order to refuse to lower health care prices for Americans, if he wants to make his priorities so exquisitely clear to people, why not let him do that?”
November 11, 2025
Democrats Didn’t Compromise on the Shutdown. They Collapsed.
Readers respond to the Democratic defection that may help end the shutdown. Also: The proposed Trump coin; seniors who downsize.
November 10, 2025
The New Democratic Brand
“The caricature of a national Democrat is weak, woke and whiny,” Michelle Cottle says on “The Opinions.” But last week’s election proved that Democrats are flipping that narrative — at least in places like Virginia, New Jersey and New York City.
November 10, 2025
Democrats Were Winning the Shutdown. Why Did They Fold?
This is how the shutdown ends?
November 10, 2025
Now We Know Trump’s Kryptonite
Democratic election victories should kill the myth that Trumpism is invincible.
November 10, 2025
‘We Have a Border for a Reason’
Cecilia Muñoz on how to solve America’s biggest political challenge.
November 10, 2025
What Is Kennedy’s Problem With Medication?
Shaming people for being on medication is dangerous.
November 10, 2025
If You Tell ChatGPT Your Secrets, Will They Be Kept Safe?
The case for “A.I. Interaction Privilege.”
November 10, 2025
What Even Is a ‘Good’ Job?
It starts with abandoning the fetish over manufacturing.
November 10, 2025
Welcome to Our New Era. What Do We Call It?
We have arrived at a “Polycene” moment where binary systems are giving way to multiple interconnected ones.
November 10, 2025
Make Medical School Three Years
Medicine shouldn’t be a career for the wealthy alone.
November 10, 2025
When Addiction Treatment Is Involuntary
Readers respond to a proposal in Utah to forcibly remove homeless people. Also: Stolen treasures; America’s gambling problem; why retire?
November 9, 2025
Do you take a GLP-1 for alternative uses? Tell us about it.
Some semaglutide users experience benefits beyond weight loss. Are you one of them?
November 9, 2025
The Aesthetic That Won New York City
Zohran Mamdani made the city glow, bringing a beauty to the everyday fixtures we ceased to register.
November 9, 2025
Cruelty, Bigotry and Rage. What’s Not to Like?
This is what happens when the fringe becomes the mainstream (and vice versa).
November 9, 2025
The Promise of the Bronx River Parkway
A pioneering road shows what highways were and what they can be as it turns 100.
November 9, 2025
Mamdani Isn’t the Future of the Democrats. This Guy Is.
The Democratic Party will not return to the White House, nor reclaim Congress, until it learns to embrace centrist politicians like Pennsylvania’s governor.
November 9, 2025
America Is Losing the Fight for the Teenagers of the World
Pop culture exports have long been a potent source of American soft power. What happens when the U.S. is no longer the global capital of cool?
November 9, 2025
We Can’t Pretend to Know the Future of the Democratic Party
There is no one-size-fits-all template for winning elections.
November 8, 2025
What if the Monarchy Went Out With a Bang?
If all other institutions fail, is there not a certain unique potency in the monarchy before dissolution?
November 8, 2025
Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do
Murderous attacks on Christians and Muslims alike are a real problem in Nigeria. Cutting humanitarian assistance there is even more lethal.
November 8, 2025
A.I. Is on Its Way to Something Even More Remarkable Than Intelligence
Skeptics overlook how our concepts change.
November 8, 2025
Trumpism Will Be With Us for a Very Long Time
Why the future of the G.O.P. will likely be guided by the right’s political DNA.
November 8, 2025
Bruce Springsteen’s Father Complicates a Powerful American Narrative
He had a good factory job that helped him raise a family. But it didn’t save him from despair.
November 8, 2025
Trump Was Never a Kingmaker. Are Republicans Finally Seeing It?
The round table convenes to discuss what comes after the Democrats’ big wins — and whether the “red hat” coalition can recover.
November 8, 2025
Trump’s Dismantling of Our Democracy
Readers respond to a Times editorial detailing the country’s slide toward autocracy.
November 8, 2025
Why Is Trump So Afraid of American Voters?
President Trump raged after Democrats won multiple elections this week. And now he’s calling on lawmakers to take action: To do more gerrymandering, to outlaw mail-in ballots and to make voter ID laws more strict. Why is Trump so afraid of American voters? He’s afraid of losing his majority in the midterm elections, argues Times Opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury.
November 8, 2025
Are Post-Trump Politics Emerging?
The round table convenes to discuss what comes after the Democrats’ big wins — and whether the “red hat” coalition can recover.
November 8, 2025
Exercising Is the Worst
Exercise has never been fun, but our expectations for physical performance, what it means to be healthy, and what it means to age have gotten too high.
November 8, 2025
How to Be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things
Is it possible to be a good citizen in a country that does bad things? In this video, New York Times Opinion columnist M. Gessen argues yes — and introduces Israeli dissidents who show us how.
November 7, 2025
Will the Idea of America Be Lost?
Readers discuss equal opportunity and immigration as central ideas in the American project. Also: The value of brain research; Democratic momentum.
November 7, 2025