How to Think About What’s Happening With Iran and Israel
There are a number of factors to consider as we make sense of what’s happening with Iran and Israel — and the possibility for very good and very bad outcomes.
June 13, 2025
I Ran the L.A.P.D. I Know What Happens When Troops Are Sent to American Cities.
Dispatching troops risks escalation, tragic error and lasting damage to public confidence.
June 13, 2025
13 Young Gen Z-ers on Whether America’s Best Days Are Behind It
The group discuss early adulthood, Donald Trump, artificial intelligence and more.
June 13, 2025
Progressives Need a Global Movement
To counter the authoritarian threat, the left must develop a clear picture of the world it wants to create.
June 13, 2025
This Is How the Protests Could Break Trump’s Deportation Machine
The protests are shining a light on what was once in the shadows.
June 13, 2025
Obama Isn’t Going to Save You
We no longer have the country that made Obama possible.
June 13, 2025
9 Candidates, 5 Boroughs, 8 Million Handshakes
Despite New York’s image as a center of wealth and power, the battle for its leadership felt intensely local, as though it were a small-town race.
June 13, 2025
Why Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Defines the Right
A historian of conservatism explains what holds a fractious coalition together.
June 13, 2025
The One Area Where Trump’s N.I.H. Cuts Might Actually Make Sense
Health disparities research needs a reboot.
June 13, 2025
Will Trump Show Restraint in the Middle East?
Israel’s decision to strike Iran carries with it a lot of risks for the region and for the United States.
June 13, 2025
Viewed From Any Angle, This Station Is a Wonder and an Inspiration
Michigan Central Station taught me what education is for.
June 12, 2025
The Undermining of Science in America
Readers respond to articles about the Trump administration’s assault on science. Also: The coming military parade in Washington.
June 12, 2025
Inside Our Voters’ Guide to New York’s Democratic Primary
We asked New Yorkers to rate the mayoral candidates. Here’s why.
June 12, 2025
The Biggest Issues Facing New York City Right Now
From housing to public safety, if the city is going to be a better place to live, the next mayor must address these key issues.
June 12, 2025
Who Should Lead New York?
15 experts on the city picked the best mayoral candidate ahead of the Democratic primary.
June 12, 2025
Elizabeth Warren: Trump Is Right About This One Thing
The debt ceiling is a political cudgel that serves no economic function. It’s time to abolish it.
June 12, 2025
Big Tech Is Finally Losing
The courts are starting to rein in Big Tech.
June 12, 2025
Trump’s Future Depends on His Immigration Crackdown
A historian of conservatism explains what holds a fractious coalition together.
June 12, 2025
Red-State Universities Will Get Hit by Trump’s Cuts, Too
The president’s assault on academic research won’t affect just blue-state elites.
June 12, 2025
Trump’s Budget Tells Three Unhappy Truths About America
Features of the budget: A supercharged ICE, school vouchers and no relief for a warming planet.
June 11, 2025
The Changing Politics of Anti-Trump Protest
Today’s anti-ICE, pro-immigration demonstrators are dragging the burden of how politics worked under Joe Biden’s presidency.
June 11, 2025
‘I Am Not Cowed’: Voices on the Protests
Readers discuss the Los Angeles protests and the “No Kings” rallies to be held on Saturday. Also: Leaving the Republican Party; younger Democratic candidates.
June 11, 2025
Trump Crossed the Line at Fort Bragg
Donald Trump’s Fort Bragg speech was the latest in a string of high-profile efforts to reshape the military more in his own likeness.
June 11, 2025
No Home, No Retirement, No Kids: How Gen Z-ers See Their Future
They’re still clinging on, but at the bottom rung of the ladder.
June 11, 2025
Ehud Olmert on Israel’s Catastrophic War in Gaza
The former prime minister of Israel discusses why he believes Israel’s war in Gaza can no longer be justified.
June 11, 2025
The Military May Find Itself in an Impossible Situation
Law and ethics can be at odds.
June 11, 2025
I’m a Vaccine Expert. Here’s What Keeps Me Up at Night About Kennedy’s Policies.
How to make sense of all the vaccine policy changes.
June 11, 2025
OpenAI Seems to Be Making a Very Familiar, Very Cynical Choice
Wait for the part where they tell us they’re doing it for our sake.
June 11, 2025
Ehud Olmert on Israel’s Catastrophic War in Gaza
The former prime minister of Israel discusses why he believes Israel’s war in Gaza can no longer be justified.
June 11, 2025
Ocean Vuong on Becoming a Father to His Brother
Three weeks after my mother died, my brother moved in with me. In our grief I emerged as a kind of father.
June 11, 2025
Trump Wants to Be a Strongman, but He’s Actually a Weak Man
He is still dangerous, though.
June 11, 2025
This Israeli Government Is a Danger to Jews Everywhere
The price will be high if people don’t resist Netanyahu’s ugly, nihilistic Gaza policy.
June 10, 2025
Three Opinion Writers on the L.A. Protests and Trump’s Spectacle of Control
Michelle Cottle, David French and Tressie McMillan Cottom dissect Trump’s reach for power.
June 10, 2025
Trump’s Flawed Message to Los Angeles
If you want to radicalize a population, there is no faster way than to use disproportionate force against civilians.
June 10, 2025
Let Us Praise Teachers, Not Devalue Them
Readers respond to a guest essay about the essential role of teachers. Also: Standing up to President Trump; homeless boomers.
June 10, 2025
The Pardon Power Is Helping Trump Realize His Dreams
It turns out that the president has a favorite constitutional clause.
June 10, 2025
A Former Israeli Hostage: ‘It’s Not Our Job to Take Revenge on Our Enemies’
Hamas held Liat Beinin Atzili hostage for 54 days and killed her husband. In her grief, she explains why all she wants is peace for Israelis and Palestinians.
June 10, 2025
The Subversive Joy of BookTok
Download a novel. Lose yourself in an absurdist plot — not because it’s noble, productive, or good for you, but simply because it’s fun.
June 10, 2025
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: My State Is Taking On the Middlemen Who Inflate Drug Prices
Pharmacy benefit managers have used anti-competitive practices to dominate the prescription drug market.
June 10, 2025
The Achingly Simple Lesson That Democrats Seem Determined Not to Learn
Trying to find a lefty Joe Rogan entirely misses the point.
June 10, 2025
I Got $4 a Week in Food Stamps. This Is the Reality of Hunger in America.
Work requirements for SNAP will kick people off the program.
June 10, 2025
Did the Camera Ever Tell the Truth?
A trust apocalypse is here.
June 10, 2025
Death of a Fantastic Machine
A trust apocalypse is here.
June 10, 2025
This Is What Autocracy Looks Like
The president didn’t bother to wait for a crisis to launch an authoritarian crackdown.
June 10, 2025
The Confrontation in Los Angeles
Readers respond to the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops to quell protests in Los Angeles.
June 9, 2025
Don’t Overlook the Reality of Elon Musk’s Contracts and Their Importance to the U.S.
One part of Musk and Trump’s public breakup should not get lost: the reality of Musk’s importance to American national security.
June 9, 2025
The Beautiful Danger of Normal Life During an Autocratic Rise
David Leonhardt sits down with M. Gessen to unpack this new phase of the Trump era.
June 9, 2025
It May Feel Like the 1960s, but It’s Worse
For those who lived through the 1960s, things today feel familiar. But they differ fundamentally.
June 9, 2025
Seven Hidden Ways Trump’s Megabill Would Remake America
The Trump administration and its allies have worked hard to conceal the true impact the legislation would have on the country.
June 9, 2025
The Supreme Court Is Divided in More Ways Than You’d Think
Originalism is not just a unifying philosophy.
June 9, 2025
My Journey Deep in the Heart of Trump Country
The administration’s budget cuts will hit Kentucky’s Fifth Congressional District hard.
June 9, 2025
Here’s What’s Happening in America, in Six (Mostly) Russian Terms
To help Americans name their new reality, we wrote a phrase book of authoritarianism.
June 9, 2025
America Is No Longer a Stable Country
Trump is playing with fire, which is just how he likes it.
June 9, 2025
Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency
The president’s use of the National Guard serves his own interests above the country’s.
June 9, 2025
Are Millennials ‘Childless’ or ‘Child Free’?
Readers respond to a guest essay by Michal Leibowitz. Also: Is America no longer a beacon?
June 8, 2025
The Trump Reality Show Just Got Weirder
White House visits from foreign leaders used to be staid affairs. Now they play out like scenes from Bravo TV or “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.”
June 8, 2025
Justice Jackson Just Helped Reset the D.E.I. Debate
How much should the law treat a person as an individual rather than as a member of a group?
June 8, 2025
The Problems Democrats Don’t Like to See
The Democratic future isn’t going to look like the Democratic past.
June 8, 2025
The New Atheists ‘Attack a God I Don’t Believe In, Either’: A Q&A With Rowan Williams
A former archbishop of Canterbury on reclaiming the human world through compassion and absolution.
June 8, 2025
We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.
America isn’t ready for what could happen to health care.
June 8, 2025
Corruption Has Flooded America. The Dams Are Breaking.
The United States is becoming just another country with a corrupt strongman personalizing and profiting from power.
June 8, 2025
Marc Maron’s Podcast Helped Me See a Creative Future
He just kept showing up and doing the work
June 7, 2025
Clash of the Bilious Billionaires
Elon and Donald: Breaking up is hard to do. But fun to watch.
June 7, 2025
Hope After Trump
An authoritarian may be transient, but he can leave a legacy of enduring damage.
June 7, 2025
Anger Over the Destruction of American Values
Readers respond to a column by David Brooks about the betrayal of the moral foundations of the United States.
June 7, 2025
The Biggest Mystery of Elon Musk
How did the great rocketeer become a deficit scold?
June 7, 2025
A Comprehensive Accounting of Trump’s Culture of Corruption
His self-dealing is part of his larger efforts to weaken American democracy.
June 7, 2025
The Alarming Part of the Musk-Trump Dispute
The last 24 hours should be a lesson to all the other billionaires who lined up with the new administration.
June 6, 2025
The Fireworks Between Trump and Musk
Readers discuss the public feud between the president and his onetime ally. Also: China’s boom and America’s promise.
June 6, 2025
Musk and Trump’s MAGA Masculinity
This dispute is reminiscent of “Real Housewives,” where women divvy their loyalties up behind whoever is the reigning alpha.
June 6, 2025
Why on Earth Should Air Traffic Controllers Be Pro-Trump?
America doesn’t need its air traffic controllers to agree with the president.
June 6, 2025
Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back
Trump’s effort to bolster American manufacturing is unproductive.
June 6, 2025
This Idea Explains a Lot About What Has Happened in Trump 2.0
Why anti-managerialism is back.
June 6, 2025
How Underpaid Are W.N.B.A. Players? It’s Embarrassing.
The world of women’s professional basketball is ripe for an economic update.
June 6, 2025
This Trump Executive Order Is Bad for Human Rights and the First Amendment
A Trump executive order is undermining the International Criminal Court’s work to pursue justice for crimes against humanity.
June 6, 2025
Forget Speed. Finish Strong.
In an era wound tight with urgency, Journalism, who moves with patience and lets the chaos pass, is the horse we didn’t know we needed.
June 6, 2025
The Democrats’ Problems Are Bigger Than You Think
If you’re thinking the Democrats’ job now is to come up with some new policies that appeal to the working class, you are thinking too small.
June 5, 2025
What’s So Problematic About ‘Problematic’?
The word’s strange history has a lot to tell us about how language evolves.
June 5, 2025
The Republican Bill: Costs and Doubts
Readers respond to articles about the G.O.P. bill and some House Republicans’ regrets. Also: Restricting Covid vaccines; a decline in values.
June 5, 2025
People Around President Trump Are Acting Very Strangely
Remember Tim Walz’s “weird” comment? He spoke too soon.
June 5, 2025
The Very Gay Life of Edmund White
The writer Edmund White, who died on Tuesday, wrote about being gay with literary clarity and without shame.
June 5, 2025
Selfishness Is Not a Virtue
Evangelical Christianity has taken a wrong turn.
June 5, 2025
Anthropic C.E.O.: Don’t Let A.I. Companies off the Hook
The A.I. industry needs to be regulated, with a focus on transparency.
June 5, 2025
After Ukraine’s Drone Strike, Has Anything Changed for Putin?
David French and Megan K. Stack on why Trump’s many promises to end the conflict “in 24 hours” was a fantasy.
June 5, 2025
What Makes Art ‘Left Wing’?
The showrunner Tony Gilroy on the political ideologies of “Andor.”
June 5, 2025
Ken Jennings: Trivia and ‘Jeopardy!’ Could Save Our Republic
A practical belief in fact and error is more fundamentally American than a toxic blend of proud ignorance and smarter-than-thou skepticism.
June 5, 2025
June 5, 2025
Can Pop Culture Be Political … and Good?
The ‘‘Andor” showrunner Tony Gilroy weighs in.
June 5, 2025
Tariffs Make the World Poorer and More Perilous
Free trade reduces the frictions that can arise between nations. Tariffs will only take away stability.
June 5, 2025
Our Regression on Gender Is a Tragedy, Not Just a Political Problem
Progress seemed inevitable just a few years ago. Now it is in danger.
June 4, 2025
Women’s Tales of Tables for One
Readers respond to a guest essay about women who dine alone. Also: A lawyer writes about a fundamental right codified in the Fifth Amendment.
June 4, 2025
A Punk Survival Guide for Gen Z
As a self-proclaimed “punk, queer grandpa,” the actor and writer John Cameron Mitchell has some advice.
June 4, 2025
Now the President Is an Art Critic
The imperial presidency doesn’t even begin to describe what Trump is doing.
June 4, 2025
The Trump Pardons Are Out of Control
A menacing new frontier of presidential power.
June 4, 2025
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
Tax breaks should go to investments in persistently poor areas, not in up-and-coming ones.
June 4, 2025
This Is the True Danger of Trump’s Tariffs
Courts will be hard-pressed to explain why arguments that were fatal to the Biden administration’s overreach do not apply to Trump’s tariffs.
June 4, 2025
Ukraine’s Attack Exposed America’s Achilles’ Heel
What happened in Russia can happen in the United States — or anywhere else.
June 4, 2025
Trump’s Gilded Gut Instinct
Trump is governing by unchecked gut impulses, with little or no homework or coordination among agencies. The results could be disastrous.
June 3, 2025
Is Civil War Coming to Europe?
How the continent’s divisions compare with America’s factions.
June 3, 2025
A Small Bright Spot Within the Darkness of the Ukraine War
The question is whether the exchange of blows and the demonstration of Ukraine’s resourcefulness can help end the conflict.
June 3, 2025
A Beloved Immigrant’s Arrest in a Pro-Trump Town
Responses to the story of Carol, an immigrant arrested in a conservative Missouri town. Also: Death by aid cuts; an Orwellian globe; slashing research.
June 3, 2025
The Emergent Trump Doctrine
The foreign policy scholar Emma Ashford explains what President Trump is really doing in the Middle East and Ukraine.
June 3, 2025
Trump’s Foreign Policy, Explained
The foreign policy scholar Emma Ashford explains what President Trump is really doing in the Middle East and Ukraine.
June 3, 2025
JD Vance Wanted to ‘Aggressively Attack’ American Universities. His Wish Has Been Trump’s Command.
Trump’s “nihilistic” crusade against Harvard is about much more than Harvard.
June 3, 2025
Jews Are Afraid Right Now
In the wake of attacks in Washington and Colorado, antisemitic violence is all too present.
June 3, 2025
How History Will Remember Elon Musk
His life and conduct are similar in many ways to those of another complicated figure, Cecil Rhodes.
June 3, 2025
Love Is a Drug. A.I. Chatbots Are Exploiting That.
Talking to a chatbot may have some benefits — if it doesn’t lead to a full-blown addiction.
June 3, 2025
America’s Novel and Gratuitous Fiscal Crisis
The problem isn’t only the trillions owed. It’s that no modern country has become this indebted absent a crisis.
June 3, 2025
Poland Just Sent an Ominous Signal to the World
Populism is resilient and sticky, and liberalism has yet to find a reliable formula to defeat it.
June 3, 2025
Why Women Are Leaving This Broadway Show in Tears
“John Proctor Is the Villain” turns the idea that #MeToo was a witch hunt inside out.
June 2, 2025
Countering ‘Psychic Numbing’ in the Trump Era
The psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton and other readers reflect on the troubling times of President Trump. Also: Thieving chatbots.
June 2, 2025
Joni Ernst Tries to Go MAGA
Joni Ernst tried a Trump move after her viral Medicaid comments. But she forgot the key thing about Trump: He never looks as though he’s trying too hard.
June 2, 2025
Trump, MAGA and ‘Toxic Empathy’
In this episode of “The Opinions,” the Times Opinion politics correspondent Michelle Cottle speaks to the columnists Jamelle Bouie and David French about the rise of “toxic empathy” and how the right has turned compassion into weakness.
June 2, 2025
What if Robert Frost’s Neighbor Was Right?
In the shadows of a new fence, I finally saw the kindness I once mistook for distance.
June 2, 2025
Save Us, Senators, From a Very Expensive Mistake
Senate Republicans understand that energy abundance is essential for the economy, national security and the country’s well-being. Now they must act.
June 2, 2025
Why Politics Feels So Cruel Right Now
Three Opinion writers on the death of empathy in America.
June 2, 2025
A.I. Killed the Math Brain
A.I.’s takeover of jobs may come first for computer science.
June 2, 2025
The Man Putin Couldn’t Kill
Putin had Christo Grozev in his sights. Grozev was way ahead of him.
June 2, 2025
‘It Sounds Really Dire Because It Is Really Dire’
Funding cuts are harming domestic violence programs.
June 2, 2025
Why Cultural Decline in the U.S. Is a Threat to Democracy
U.S. institutions are still largely functioning. But the deterioration of the country’s political culture is striking — and alarming.
June 2, 2025
The Politics and Perils of Pornography
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Christine Emba. Also: Investing in war.
June 1, 2025
Why Trump Is Mad at the ‘Sleazebag’ Leonard Leo
The president is very unhappy with the federal judiciary and the Federalist Society.
June 1, 2025
Don’t Let Trump’s Brutality Fool You. The Internationalization of American Schools Is a Real Issue.
It’s complicated.
June 1, 2025
Keep Your Laws Off My Doughnuts
With junk food on the endangered list, I grabbed a chance to journey back to my youth in a Wonder Bread time machine.
June 1, 2025
The Cerebral, Bach-Loving Patrician Who Wrote Trump’s Playbook
William F. Buckley Jr. was also a revolutionary.
June 1, 2025
Is This the Beginning of the End of America’s National Parks?
Budget cuts proposed for next year would be catastrophic.
June 1, 2025
Living to Die Well
Even as we die, our bodies are capable of more than devolution from illness.
June 1, 2025
What Diddy’s Defenders Ignore
Why victim blaming persists in spite of the evidence.
May 31, 2025
Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?
Many thousands of children are dying because of cuts in American humanitarian aid, and denials by Elon Musk and Marco Rubio don’t change that reality.
May 31, 2025
Tech Bro Had to Go
Two emperors of chaos decide that two is one too many.
May 31, 2025
Harvard as Symbol and Target
Readers react to Steven Pinker’s essay on the Trump administration’s conflict with the university and its repercussions.
May 31, 2025
A Hurricane Season Like No Other
It’s only a matter of time before the next Hurricane Milton is at our doorstep. But with our weather intelligence severely compromised, will we know it?
May 31, 2025
‘TACO’ Is the Secret to Trump’s Resilience
Chickening out is crucial to his political success.
May 31, 2025
When ICE Comes for Immigrants in Nashville
Readers respond to a guest essay by Margaret Renkl. Also: House Republicans’ “covert attack on abortion access.”
May 30, 2025
Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
His decimation of U.S.A.I.D. has had fatal consequences.
May 30, 2025
Our Lives Are an Endless Series of ‘And’
The writer Kathryn Schulz on losing her father at the same time as finding her life partner and how to hold radically different feelings at once.
May 30, 2025
Our Lives Are an Endless Series of ‘And’
The writer Kathryn Schulz on losing her father at the same time as finding her life partner, and how to hold radically different feelings at once.
May 30, 2025
Trump’s War on Nature Is Up Against a Powerful New Resistance Movement
To view rivers only as sources and drains is to reduce them to base functions rather than to see them as the life-giving, world-shaping forces they are.
May 30, 2025
A Revolution in Public Safety Is Underway
More and more communities have concluded that the police can’t be expected to solve every problem and are shifting some of the load to others.
May 30, 2025
Silicon Valley Is at an Inflection Point
The influence of A.I. companies now extends well beyond the realm of business.
May 30, 2025
There’s a Link Between Therapy Culture and Childlessness
Are millennials’ fears of failing their children outweighing their desire to have them?
May 30, 2025
The U.S. Deported This Chinese Scientist, in a Decision That Changed World History
Qian Xuesen was a Chinese rocket scientist whose work was central to American military power. His exile had world-altering effects.
May 30, 2025
I’m Normally a Mild Guy. Here’s What’s Pushed Me Over the Edge.
Trumpism can be seen as a giant attempt to amputate the highest aspirations of the human spirit and to reduce us to our most primitive, atavistic tendencies.
May 29, 2025
They’re Exquisite. They’re Divine. They’re Incomprehensible. Why?
Opera’s greatest composers wanted us to understand the words. English, please!
May 29, 2025
The Swamp Wins Again, Even Against Elon Musk
For all the drama and trauma he wrought, driving out federal workers and hollowing out agencies, Elon Musk got nowhere near his goals and is already done.
May 29, 2025
As the Epic Struggle for Harvard Unfolds
Readers discuss the confrontation between President Trump and Harvard. Also: Standing up to Vladimir Putin; silencing authors; self-driving trucks.
May 29, 2025
Trump’s Lies Are Only the Half of It
The president’s storytelling is in an unscrupulous league of its own.
May 29, 2025
The Democrats’ 20-Million-Dollar-Man Problem
To reach the manosphere, you have to know the manosphere.
May 29, 2025
How the iPhone Drove Men and Women Apart
And what it means for the future.
May 29, 2025
If Trump Walks Away From Ukraine Now, He Looks Weak, and Putin Wins
The president is right about wanting to end the war in Ukraine but wrong about threatening to walk away from cease-fire talks.
May 29, 2025
Tom Friedman on Why Life Is Getting Much, Much Harder for Benjamin Netanyahu
After his latest trip to Israel, the columnist shares how the country has changed in the past six months.
May 29, 2025
Why Should Columbia Keep Out Its Neighbors?
A campus in the city isn’t being of the city.
May 29, 2025
Trump’s Attacks on Black History Betray America
The president’s attempts to erase Black history hurt all Americans.
May 29, 2025
May 29, 2025
Progressives Are Driving Themselves Into Extinction
What would make you want to have more children?
May 29, 2025
Children in Gaza Are Starving. Let the U.N. Do Its Job.
The new plan to get aid into the territory could lead to a catastrophe.
May 29, 2025
The Disturbing Truth About What Makes Americans Feel Safe
We are learning an important lesson about the politics of crime.
May 28, 2025
Gene Editing: The Lessons of a Medical Breakthrough
Readers respond to an article about gene editing and object to cuts in research funding. Also: The Covid vaccine; Senator John Fetterman.
May 28, 2025
The Growing Scandal of $Trump
The investigative reporter Zeke Faux traces the crypto ventures of President Trump and his family.
May 28, 2025
Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era
I’ve seen the signs before. I’m seeing them now.
May 28, 2025
I Can’t Believe We’re Still Arguing About This
Debates that seemed settled 20 years ago are lurching back to life. How can we finish these zombie arguments for good?
May 28, 2025
The Growing Scandal of $Trump
The investigative reporter Zeke Faux traces the crypto ventures of President Trump and his family.
May 28, 2025
How to Turn the Middle Against Trump
Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and David Leonhardt on the fundamental question Democrats need to answer.
May 28, 2025
Sports Stadiums Are Monuments to the Poverty of Our Ambitions
Cities build stadiums in part because it’s so hard to build almost anything else.
May 28, 2025
Syrian Freedom Is Dangerously Incomplete
Syria’s deeply flawed interim Constitution should be replaced with one that reflects our values: freedom, equality and self-governance.
May 28, 2025
The Flashing Signals That I Just Saw in Israel
Israelis and Gazans both feel trapped by leaders they no longer trust.
May 27, 2025
The One Way Trump Hasn’t Changed the G.O.P.
Why Republicans still write budgets like it’s 2012.
May 27, 2025
Polgreen Fader
Polgreen Fader
May 27, 2025
Trump Is Crossing So Many Lines
Readers respond to President Trump’s enrichment and his commencement speech at West Point. Also: Taxes for better health; “eat” tariffs.
May 27, 2025
We Exposed Fraud at Enron and WorldCom. Don’t Let History Repeat Itself.
A proposal by Republican lawmakers to eliminate an auditing watchdog would make another corporate disaster more likely.
May 27, 2025
Living Among the DOGE Wreckage
I live in D.C., and I’ve always cherished my friends and neighbors who signed on for public service. Now they’re being chased out of town.
May 27, 2025
Trump’s Oval Office Is a Gilded Rococo Nightmare. Help.
Is this really us?
May 27, 2025
‘Everyone Around Me Thinks That I’m Crazy for Wanting to Come Back’
Nowhere is the longing for home more powerful than in Syria today.
May 27, 2025
To Take On Trump, Think Like a Lion
So many people are waiting in the tall grass of decency, ready to rush out to restore the nation that we have all loved.
May 27, 2025
They Built a Friendship Fighting for Peace. The Friendship Is Over.
Two negotiators for Israelis and Palestinians forged an improbable bond. Then politics got in the way.
May 27, 2025
Understanding Lapses in Learning
Readers, including Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado, discuss the state of education in America. Also: Better robots or better humans?
May 26, 2025
From the Creator of ‘Succession,’ a Delicious Satire of the Tech Right
Much of the pleasure of “Mountainhead” is the way it reflects our preposterous nightmare world.
May 26, 2025
Trump Is Asking Retailers to Deny Reality
Companies can’t deny reality.
May 26, 2025
Maggie Rogers: The Truth About Dreams
The thing I always remember about Radio City Music Hall is this: When the spotlight hits you and the crowd goes dark, the only things you can see are the exit signs.
May 26, 2025
Don’t Pity a Woman Eating Alone
Women eating alone receive pity — and free champagne. But there’s nothing to pity, or to praise, in a woman’s basic existence.
May 26, 2025
‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Is One Tragedy Too Many
“Glengarry Glen Ross” should be the play of our times. Instead, we seem to have exhausted our capacity to care.
May 26, 2025
I Was Obama’s Budget Director. It’s Time to Worry About the National Debt.
In its current form, the budget legislation moving through Congress would exacerbate the fiscal challenges we face.
May 26, 2025
We Are Not Being Asked to Run Into Cannon Fire. We Just Need to Speak Up.
At a time of national crisis, Memorial Day reminds us to honor past sacrifices by standing up for democracy.
May 26, 2025
Erdogan Might Have Finally Gone Too Far
The international community does not seem poised to prevent Erdogan from setting Turkey on the path to autocracy. Nevertheless, he might still fail.
May 26, 2025
Seeing a Tide of Fascism: Flee or Fight?
Readers respond to a video about three Yale professors who are leaving for Canada. Also: A West Point book ban; cooperation on the environment.
May 25, 2025
The Trump Administration Is Trying to Unravel One of Our Greatest National Accomplishments
The Trump administration is trying to unravel one of our greatest national achievements.
May 25, 2025
How the Ravages of Age Are Ravaging the Democratic Party
Democrats need to figure out how to elevate new voices.
May 25, 2025
Why Is This Supreme Court Handing Trump More and More Power?
The Supreme Court bears a heavy dose of responsibility for plunging the legal world into chaos.
May 25, 2025
Knicks vs. Hicks: Let Us Praise Old-Fashioned Contempt
Society’s antagonisms can find a graceful outlet on the hardwood.
May 25, 2025
Bruce Springsteen Will Never Surrender to Donald Trump
Trump’s anger at Springsteen is driven by their two opposing visions of the American dream.
May 25, 2025
The Real Value of Pope Leo’s Americanness
The experience of Catholics in the United States has now become the default condition of the faith worldwide.
May 25, 2025
Zombies Are Better Than the Alternative
When I think about the zombie apocalypse on “The Last of Us,” I am not thinking about the possibly apocalyptic things that are really taking place in 2025.
May 25, 2025
One Thing Still Unites Republicans
The Republican tax and benefit cuts are two sides of the same coin.
May 24, 2025
What Do You Win When You Work at the Carnival?
In “The Sparkle,” a carnival worker dreams of leaving what he knows behind to follow his passion. What is there for him on the other side?
May 24, 2025
The Sparkle
A carnival worker dreams of leaving what he knows behind to follow his passion. What is there for him on the other side?
May 24, 2025
Dance$ With Emolument$
Trump, selling the presidency to the highest bidders.
May 24, 2025
Trump Is Immensely Vulnerable
Critics should focus on his economic failures, corruption and manipulation and get their own houses in order.
May 24, 2025
A Brain-Dead Woman Is Being Kept on Machines to Gestate a Fetus. It Was Inevitable.
Abortion laws did not consider what happens if a woman dies while her fetus has a heartbeat.
May 24, 2025
Give Yourself a Break, Tom Cruise. Give Us All a Break.
It’s hard to suspend disbelief watching a movie when you’re thinking about how much Tiger Balm went into its making.
May 24, 2025
The Way You Build Muscle Is the Way You Build a Life
Our muscles, ourselves.
May 24, 2025
What Is ‘Dying With Dignity’?
Readers respond to a doctor’s essay about the drawbacks of medical-aid-in-dying measures.
May 24, 2025
The Man of the Moment Is 3,000 Years Old
We could never really be sure who he was. Maybe that was the point.
May 24, 2025
Trump’s Big Budget Bomb
The journalist Catherine Rampell discusses how Trump’s tax-cut bill would affect Americans.
May 24, 2025
Sarah Milgrim’s Death Was a Tragedy. Distorting Her Legacy Would Be Another.
The woman I knew worked for peaceful coexistence.
May 23, 2025
The Supreme Court Ruled in Favor of Trump, and That Is OK
Those worried about how the court will confront Trump should save their outrage for other cases.
May 23, 2025
Trump’s Big Budget Bomb
We are all in the blast radius of Trump’s tax-cut bill, which Catherine Rampell calls ‘transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, from the young to the old and from the future to the past.’
May 23, 2025
This Is the Tragic Consequence of Conflating Jews and Israel
The horrific killings of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were shocking but should not come as a surprise.
May 23, 2025
Trump's Big Budget Bomb
We are all in the blast radius of Trump’s tax-cut bill.
May 23, 2025
Harvard Derangement Syndrome
In my 22 years as a Harvard professor, I have not been afraid to bite the hand that feeds me. So I’m hardly an apologist when I say the invective aimed at Harvard has become unhinged.
May 23, 2025
Republicans Can’t Hide Medicaid Cuts in a ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill
The Republican tax bill would take health insurance from millions of lower-income Americans and give the savings to the wealthiest Americans.
May 23, 2025
Crypto Is a Threat to the U.S. Financial System
Digital currencies like stablecoins are likely to undermine U.S. financial power.
May 23, 2025
Trump Didn’t Want a Deal in the Oval Office. He Wanted a Humiliation.
The president clearly planned to ambush Cyril Ramaphosa.
May 23, 2025
Can We Please Stop Lying About Obama?
The problem with arguing that neoliberals left American workers behind is that it’s mostly untrue.
May 22, 2025
That Little Gasp of Irritation Is Doing a Lot of Work
Sometimes change comes not in the form of a new word but in the form of an “uh.”
May 22, 2025
Medicaid, Welfare and a Work Requirement
Readers respond to a guest essay by four Trump administration officials. Also: President Trump’s contentious meeting with the South African president.
May 22, 2025
The Old Man and the iPhone
Our modern conveniences are exhaustingly inconvenient.
May 22, 2025
The Man Who Knew When to Step Down
David Souter set an example more leaders should follow.
May 22, 2025
Republicans Will Use Paperwork to Kick Americans Off Health Care
Paperwork is an intentional burden.
May 22, 2025
The ICE Raids in Nashville Aren’t About Public Safety
Most of us still know cruelty when we see it. And we cannot let cruelty stand.
May 22, 2025
Are We in a New Era of Presidential Regalism?
Carlos Lozada and Aaron Retica on what two damning books on Biden reveal about the American presidency.
May 22, 2025
A South African Grift Lands in the Oval Office
White Afrikaners are Trump’s kind of oppressed minority.
May 22, 2025
Trump’s Dangerous Obsession With the Panama Canal
By pushing Panama’s president for one concession after the next, Trump is weakening a government closely aligned with the United States.
May 22, 2025
A Native English Speaker Holds the Papacy. It’s Been 866 Years.
Pope Leo’s fluency in English, Spanish and Italian will help him govern the global church — and the Vatican.
May 22, 2025
Three Well-Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat
Dissidents around the world have plenty of experience challenging authoritarian regimes. Here are their secrets.
May 21, 2025
Why Are So Many People Sure Covid Leaked From a Lab?
The shifting consensus says more about our politics than the science of Covid.
May 21, 2025
Cuts in Research, and a Scientist Brain Drain
Readers discuss the Trump administration’s effects on American research and science. Also: Joe Biden’s cancer; what Democrats need; false manhood.
May 21, 2025
Don’t Let Natalists Define What’s Family-Friendly
Natalist policies are unsupported by data, too narrow and, frankly, weird.
May 21, 2025
How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump
Was there a Joe Biden cover-up? Jake Tapper examines the people and institutions that made the former president’s re-election campaign possible.
May 21, 2025
Denial Is a Bad Strategy if You’re an Aging President
What others should learn from Joe Biden.
May 21, 2025
Suddenly Trump Is No Longer Buying What Bibi Has Been Selling
Is the Netanyahu-Trump honeymoon over?
May 21, 2025
How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump
Was there a Joe Biden cover-up? Jake Tapper examines the people and institutions that made the former president’s re-election campaign possible.
May 21, 2025
The MAGA Movement’s Empty Vision of the Future
We can contest the dark dreams of those in power.
May 21, 2025
JD Vance on His Faith and Trump’s Most Controversial Policies
The vice president joins Ross Douthat in Rome to discuss immigration, trade and the new pope.
May 21, 2025
JD Vance on His Faith and Trump’s Most Controversial Policies
The vice president joins Ross Douthat in Rome to discuss immigration, trade and the new pope.
May 21, 2025
Trump Is Turning the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Into Something Very Different
The latest changes to hit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau prove corporate interests are paramount.
May 21, 2025
What Would a Conservative Superlawyer Say About Law Firms Bowing to Trump?
Ted Olson didn’t live to see how quickly Trump’s blackmail could reduce once-proud law firms to pitiable supplicants for the president’s grace.
May 21, 2025
The Reality of Trump’s Golden Dome
We don’t know all the details of Trump’s plan to build an Iron Dome-like defense system. What we do know is it wouldn’t come cheap, easy or soon.
May 20, 2025
Tales of Rejection and Acceptance
Readers respond to a column by David Brooks about “the most rejected generation.” Also: Who is running the country?; flying the flag.
May 20, 2025
Joe Biden Has a Chance to Do Something Astounding
A cancer diagnosis could be a chance to rebuild trust.
May 20, 2025
‘I Even Believe He Is Destroying the American Presidency’
Trump’s wanton attacks on institutions and individuals have a specific purpose.
May 20, 2025
Michelle Goldberg: ‘More Democrats Need to Be Doing This’
Democrats have a lot of problems. But they are getting some things right.
May 20, 2025
Behold the New Tax Plan: More Complicated, Less Fair, Totally Unaffordable
This approach wouldn’t give Trump even what he told Congress he wanted.
May 20, 2025
Biden Is a Scapegoat. The Democrats Are the Problem.
This is not an idle question. The future of the party depends on answering it.
May 20, 2025
The War in Ukraine Is Not as Far Away as Trump Thinks
The United States can stand up to the Kremlin now, in Ukraine, or later. But the cost of waiting could be high.
May 20, 2025
The Trump-Supporting Christians Accusing Jews of Antisemitism
Ultra-Zionist gentiles are transforming America into something out of Jewish nightmares, pretending they’re trying to ensure Jewish safety.
May 20, 2025
In Illness, Biden Deserves Grace
Readers respond to former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis. Also: A.I. governance; a reality show contest for citizenship?
May 19, 2025
My First Thought When I Heard Joe Biden’s News
What Joe Biden understands about America’s place in the world, even now.
May 19, 2025
America’s Debt Is Officially Tarnished. Here’s What Must Happen Next.
Moody’s announcement last week means that not one of the firms that rate America’s debt still consider it pristine.
May 19, 2025
The Delusion of Porn’s Harmlessness
Despite significant evidence that a deluge of pornography has a negative impact on modern society, there is a curious refusal to publicly admit disapproval of it.
May 19, 2025
Trump Is Turning a Good Idea Into an Authoritarian Weapon
The Trump administration’s relocation of federal offices outside of Washington corrupts what could be a valuable reform.
May 19, 2025
Get Mad in Public, and 12 Other Ways to Save Health and Science
Expert-backed ideas for continued progress.
May 19, 2025
I’m a LinkedIn Executive. I See the Bottom Rung of the Career Ladder Breaking.
A.I. is threatening entry-level jobs.
May 19, 2025
Trump’s Next Move After the Law Firms Surrender
Even more than free legal help, what the president gets from the firms is the joy of publicly dominating and demeaning his adversaries.
May 19, 2025
In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.
Trump’s fixation on tariffs while he undermines America’s competitive strengths is hastening the onset of the “Chinese Century.”
May 19, 2025
Josh Hawley’s Surprising Plea for Medicaid
Readers respond to the Missouri senator’s argument for protecting Medicaid from cuts.
May 18, 2025
Hollywood Couldn’t Imagine a Star Like This One
Before there was D.E.I., there was Desi Arnaz, rewriting the rules to become Hollywood’s unlikeliest mogul. His success still holds valuable lessons.
May 18, 2025
Trump Is Destroying a Core American Value. The World Will Notice.
His overhaul of the State Department’s human rights bureau will make the United States weaker.
May 18, 2025
Country Music Is Entirely at War With Itself
American pop culture typically goes country when the White House goes Republican.
May 18, 2025
How I Got Duped by Designer Dupes
The overwhelming deluge of bag content made me desperate for the luxury my lackluster bank balance would never permit.
May 18, 2025
Trump Isn’t the First Politician to Sell the Office
American politicians have been for sale for far longer than Donald Trump has been around and in far more ways than he and his family have so far pioneered.
May 18, 2025
Europe Built Trains. America Built Highways and Regret.
As Europe embraces the night train, the United States seems to be sleepwalking into a transport dead end.
May 18, 2025
Republican Hypocrisy Reaches Into the Countryside
You might assume that Trump would prioritize the interests of rural voters.
May 17, 2025
New Jersey Can Show How to Take On Public Sector Strikes
Don’t panic. Show resilience.
May 17, 2025
For One Hilarious, Terrifying Day, Elon Musk’s Chatbot Lost Its Mind
Just don’t ask it about “white genocide.”
May 17, 2025
The Tragedy of Joe Biden
Even Shakespeare might not have dreamed up this family.
May 17, 2025
Gen Z: How Will You Remake the American Dream?
We want to hear from readers ages 18-30 about their aspirations for the future.
May 17, 2025
The Future of Black History Lives on Donald Trump’s Front Lawn
A journey to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture took me places I will not soon forget.
May 17, 2025
The $7 Billion We Wasted Bombing a Country We Couldn’t Find on a Map
The United States supposedly can’t afford $1 a day to save starving children, but Biden and Trump squandered $7 billion bombing Yemenis.
May 17, 2025
Why We’re Rooting for Germany’s Conservative Chancellor
Friedrich Merz and Germany’s political establishment must unite the center to ward off the far right.
May 17, 2025
Trump Only Sees the World Through Deals
It’s the quest for the handshake that guides Trumpian foreign policy on almost every front.
May 17, 2025
The Risks and Rewards of Antidepressants
Readers respond to a psychiatrist’s essay arguing for more research on the effects of S.S.R.I.s like Prozac and other drugs.
May 17, 2025
The Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks That Weren’t
Trump’s insistence on a cease-fire without addressing what the warring sides really want at this stage has not worked.
May 16, 2025
How Cuts to Medicaid Would Imperil Rural Hospitals
Responses to a guest essay about the effects of Medicaid cuts. Also: A third presidential term; a display of faith; loud music in public.
May 16, 2025
How Did So Many Elected Democrats Miss Biden’s Infirmity?
More than lying to the public, too many Democrats were lying to themselves.
May 16, 2025
Is Trump Losing? A Debate.
The journalists Zack Beauchamp and Andrew Marantz discuss what kind of autocratic timeline America is on right now.
May 16, 2025
Is Trump Losing? A Debate
The journalists Zack Beauchamp and Andrew Marantz discuss what kind of autocratic timeline America is on right now.
May 16, 2025
Medicaid Work Requirements Are Cruel and Pointless
Studies show that when Medicaid work requirements were tried, they failed to increase employment.
May 16, 2025
‘Trump Can’t Escape Political Gravity’: 3 Writers on Trump’s Polling
What we can learn from polls about the president’s action-filled second term so far and how Democrats are looking.
May 16, 2025
It Turns Out Some Republicans in Congress Do Have a Red Line
Selling off public lands threatens more than a century of progress for one of America’s most vital and popular shared experiments.
May 16, 2025
The ‘Modest’ Ruling That Could Kneecap Our Legal System
The debate over nationwide injunctions.
May 16, 2025
Romania Is About to Experience Disaster
The country’s disastrous slide to the far right had been coming.
May 16, 2025
‘We Are the Most Rejected Generation’
There’s a cost to making it so hard to be a young person right now.
May 15, 2025
The Justices Can’t Avoid Trump’s Blow Against the Constitution
Procedure was supposed to be beside the point at Thursday’s arguments. But the unconstitutionality and impracticality of Trump’s order was inescapable.
May 15, 2025
Ancient Romans, Pagans … and Trump?
Readers respond to a column by David Brooks. Also: President Trump’s contempt for ethical boundaries.
May 15, 2025
Nasty MAGA Infighting Means Trouble for Trump
Live by the Loomer, die by the Loomer.
May 15, 2025
Never Bet Against Pete Rose
His removal from baseball’s ineligible list will allow him to enter the Hall of Fame.
May 15, 2025
WeightWatchers Got One Thing Very Right
Will the cure for the obesity epidemic fuel the loneliness epidemic?
May 15, 2025
May 15, 2025
An Interview With the Herald of the Apocalypse
Losing your job may be the best-case scenario.
May 15, 2025
Two Opinion Columnists on Trump’s Era of International Bullying
Lydia Polgreen and Nicholas Kristof discuss why other nations are picking up what the president is punching down.
May 15, 2025
There’s a Darker Reason Trump Is Going After Those Law Firms
It looks like retribution. It’s actually worse.
May 15, 2025
The Forecast for 2027? Total A.I. Domination.
Losing your job may be the best-case scenario.
May 15, 2025
What Worries 11 Democratic Voters Most About Trump — and What They Want From Democrats
The participants discuss what Democrats should do in the face of a second Trump presidency.
May 15, 2025
Nuclear War Avoided, Again. But Next Time?
The fast-moving conflict between India and Pakistan last week demonstrated the inherent dangers of the modern nuclear age.
May 15, 2025
The Birthright Citizenship Case Could Split the Country in Two
The focus on a specific legal question has overshadowed the more crucial issues at stake.
May 15, 2025
The Boom Years of Global Charity Are Over. What Comes Next?
We’ve come to see developmental aid as a basic fact of the world. But now the money is drying up.
May 14, 2025
It’s Time for a Course on the Constitution
Readers reflect on the Constitution and the state of American democracy. Also: The Catholic Church sex abuse crisis; Elon Musk’s minions.
May 14, 2025
A.I. Will Destroy Critical Thinking in K-12
The secretary of education said it would be a “wonderful thing.” Lots of parents disagree.
May 14, 2025
The Indecency of the Cannes Red Carpet’s Decency Rules
When the Cannes Film Festival is banning nudity and big dresses from the red carpet, what is a fashion fan, body-proud star or stylist to do?
May 14, 2025
We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
May 14, 2025
A Plane From Qatar? C’mon, Man.
Sure, everyone likes gifts. But presidents have to refuse them most of the time.
May 14, 2025
Four Legal Immigrants Offer a Warning for America
Trump is transforming — and destroying — something core to this country’s identity.
May 14, 2025
Trump Leadership: If You Want Welfare and Can Work, You Must
As leaders of the agencies that oversee the largest welfare programs in the nation, we fear that welfare has become a trap of dependency.
May 14, 2025
They Were Waiting for Trump All Along
The conservative movement has always had a soft spot for despots of various stripes.
May 14, 2025
New York to Cuomo: Are You My Daddy?
New Yorkers have a long history of turning to tough, even ruthless leaders when they fear their city is lurching out of control. But is Cuomo really what we want?
May 14, 2025
We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
May 14, 2025
A.G. Sulzberger: A Free People Need a Free Press
The anti-press playbook is being used in this country — and it could not come at a more difficult time for the American press.
May 13, 2025
What Makes Right-Wing Art Effective
Why politics don’t necessarily ruin storytelling.
May 13, 2025
Don’t Know How to Face Your Mom? Talk to Your Friend’s Mom Instead.
In a unique twist, three women swap mothers for a candid conversation about their choice to be child-free in “M/other.”
May 13, 2025
M/other
In a unique twist, three women swap mothers for a candid conversation about their choice to be child-free.
May 13, 2025
What Has Trump Done to West Point?
Responses to a guest essay about the Trump administration’s assault on academic freedom at the U.S. Military Academy. Also: The Qatari gift of a plane.
May 13, 2025
This Is Why Trump Is Always Talking About Corruption
Shamelessness is Trump’s superpower.
May 13, 2025
‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education’
Students are already using A.I. to learn and write. The education policy expert Rebecca Winthrop explores the big questions emerging for educators and parents.
May 13, 2025
‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education’
Students are already using A.I. to learn and write. The education policy expert Rebecca Winthrop explores the big questions emerging for educators and parents.
May 13, 2025
George Saunders: Shame on the White House
When a ship is sinking, there’s value in knowing how fast and calling it out. When a country is self-sabotaging, ditto.
May 13, 2025
I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.
I was detained at Logan airport after I did not complete a customs declaration for frog embryos.
May 13, 2025
My Brush With Trump’s Thought Police
The Trump administration’s decision to stop funding for a Danish lecture series showed its determination to extend its control to the smallest of ventures.
May 13, 2025
This Is Not the Saudi Arabia Trump Visited Before
America’s national security could benefit from a successful Trump visit to Saudi Arabia — and suffer from a bad one.
May 13, 2025
The U.S. Army Is Finally Pivoting Toward Future Threats
A new doctrine will transform the kinds of weapons America uses, how they are purchased and how fast they get into the hands of soldiers.
May 13, 2025
Karma Comes for Kennedy
Casey Means’s nomination to be surgeon general has led to a rift in MAHA.
May 12, 2025
Seeking to Stop a Slide Into Autocracy
Readers respond to a guest essay that warned of authoritarianism in America. Also: Shame on the lawyers; euphoria over Pope Leo XIV.
May 12, 2025
Josh Hawley: Don’t Cut Medicaid
Republicans should embrace their working class voters.
May 12, 2025
Are Trump’s Tariffs Trying to Solve a Problem That Doesn’t Exist?
A Harvard economist argues that a decline in manufacturing jobs is not what ails the United States.
May 12, 2025
Should Reporters Identify Judges by the President Who Nominated Them?
Jurists have long surprised expectations based on party, and it’s reassuring to see that continue.
May 12, 2025
‘Doubt Has Crept In’: Three European Diplomats on Trusting America
Three European former diplomats talk about what America meant to them and how that’s changed.
May 12, 2025
What Stalks Wolves Across Europe
The Europe that permitted wolves to thrive is fracturing.
May 12, 2025
What Kennedy Gets Right About the Chemicals in Our Food
A handshake deal with the food industry will never be enough.
May 12, 2025
Pope Leo XIV May Be a Stern Teacher for American Catholics
Political partisanship is likely to become an even more untenable position for American Catholics than it already is.
May 12, 2025
Something Extraordinary Is Happening in My Country
Serbian protesters are bravely combating a powerful autocratic government.
May 12, 2025
Behind Miller’s Threat to Suspend Habeas Corpus Is the Fact That They’re Losing
Stephen Miller said on Friday the administration is looking into suspending habeas corpus. But don’t forget: The Trump administration keeps losing in court.
May 11, 2025
The Many Meanings of ‘True’ Religion
Readers respond to an essay about religion in America. Also: Stop the elderspeak.
May 11, 2025
In Trump’s America, All Parents and Children for Themselves
Trump’s efforts to eliminate the Department of Education and give its funding directly to the states are a nightmare for parents like me.
May 11, 2025
Elon Musk Thought He Could Break History. Instead It Broke Him.
Musk is leaving Washington looking less like a legend.
May 11, 2025
Trump Is No Longer the Most Important American
Neither MAGA nor woke, the new pontiff confounds political categories.
May 11, 2025
Why We Can’t Escape Alcatraz
For Trump and others, it evinces powerful nostalgia for something that never actually existed.
May 11, 2025
Today’s Young People Need to Learn How to Be Punk
I toured college campuses and found a generation yearning to learn about punk as a survival strategy.
May 11, 2025
There Are Ways to Die With Dignity, but Not Like This
Medical aid in dying laws are flawed.
May 11, 2025
Here’s a Gift for Your Mom: Cut Her Some Slack
Being flawed is an important part of a mother’s job. How else would children learn that flaws are OK and they should accept their own?
May 11, 2025
My Mother and I Bond Over Ignoring Mother’s Day
The staying power of family culture.
May 10, 2025
Pope Leo, Peru and Me
I am a Peruvian who embraced America, and the pope is an American who embraced Peru.
May 10, 2025
Barry Diller’s Moment of Truth
At 83, the mogul looks back on his sprawling, complicated life and surveys Trump’s America.
May 10, 2025
Trump’s Dilemma in Iran
Donald Trump will either have to accept a nuclear deal with Iran that looks a lot like the one he denounced, or use military force, with hugely unpredictable consequences.
May 10, 2025
These Internal Documents Show Why We Shouldn’t Trust Porn Companies
Five years ago at Pornhub, executives were removing the most obvious videos of children. But one employee said “obvious" meant a “3-year-old.”
May 10, 2025
‘The Studio’ Knows the Real Reason Movies Are Bad
The satirical comedy about Hollywood is as much a send-up of the audience as it is of the industry.
May 10, 2025
Facing the Realities of Severe Autism
Readers react to a woman’s account of raising her autistic child.
May 10, 2025
India and Pakistan Enter a More Dangerous Era
There’s been a profound and dangerous shift in their rivalry, and it threatens U.S. interests.
May 10, 2025
‘Let This Papacy Be a Light in Darkening Times’
Readers respond to the election of a new pope and ponder its effects on American politics. Also: Presidential profits.
May 9, 2025
What the World Needs From Pope Leo
Preaching about the supernatural and the digital.
May 9, 2025
There Was Much More to David Souter
There was much more to David Souter — and the kind of moderate he was — than is often presented in accounts of his time on the court.
May 9, 2025
Can Hakeem Jeffries Break Through?
The House minority leader would much rather talk about Medicaid and taxes than looming autocracy.
May 9, 2025
Watergate-Era Washington Was Less Toxic Than This
For decades, Sally Quinn has brought people together in Washington. But under Trump, the free flow of ideas has been replaced by fear.
May 9, 2025
Today Harvard Is the Target. Tomorrow It Could Be Your Church.
A weaponized tax code could backfire on conservatives.
May 9, 2025
Jerry Springer — Yes, That Jerry Springer — Can Save the Democrats
The infamous TV talk show host had a political career and grand ambitions. The very qualities that held him back are ones that Democrats need to embrace.
May 9, 2025
Where Trump Might Find Success if He Gets Below the Surface
The future for Penn Station’s commuters and neighbors hinges not on aesthetics but on a wonky idea called through-running.
May 9, 2025
The Wars We Still Can Stop
America’s commitment to helping stabilize the Horn of Africa might have been taken for granted a few months ago. Not anymore.
May 9, 2025
This Israeli Government Is Not Our Ally
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is behaving in ways that threaten U.S. interests in the region.
May 9, 2025
The New Pope Might Be Somewhat Like the Old Pope
The conservative ire that roiled Catholicism during the previous pontificate is likely to continue with this first American pope.
May 8, 2025
An American Pope? Maybe It Wasn’t So Impossible.
Cardinal Prevost defied the odds. A number of factors point to why.
May 8, 2025
Voices Against Trump’s Assault on Democracy
Readers discuss ways to counter President Trump. Also: An unyielding Harvard; a Supreme Court ruling on transgender troops; the Zen of A.I.
May 8, 2025
Five Pencils for You. Infinite Luxuries for the Trumps.
Americans skimp while their president splurges.
May 8, 2025
Lessons From World War II to Avoid World War III
The lessons from World War II are critical for understanding how to restore and maintain long-term peace and security in Europe today.
May 8, 2025
The Democratic Senator Taking Cues From Trumpism
Senator Chris Murphy argues voters want to know who’s screwing them.
May 8, 2025
Israel Has a Terrible Choice to Make
There are no shortcuts in war.
May 8, 2025
How Three Democrats Who Saved the Party Before Would Do It Again
A blueprint for revitalizing the opposition.
May 8, 2025
How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
And how exactly can we tell whether America has crossed the line?
May 8, 2025
Can Democrats Win the Working Class and Save the Republic?
Senator Chris Murphy on the Democrats’ “five alarm” crisis.
May 8, 2025
West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate
The academy has changed.
May 8, 2025
What I Learned in China: Obedience Gets You Nowhere
A call for showing courage against tyrants.
May 8, 2025
The Really Unfair Thing About the Met Gala
The charitable tax deduction is distorting American philanthropy.
May 7, 2025
‘Trump Is Not Crazy’: Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Beating the Right
The French radical believes that France has something to teach the world.
May 7, 2025
On the Chopping Block: Arts and Humanities
The plan to eliminate the endowments for the arts and the humanities. Also: A threat to impose tariffs on movies made abroad.
May 7, 2025
This India-Pakistan Skirmish Is Not Like the Others
At times, the skirmishes between India and Pakistan can seem more like reality TV spectacle, but these strikes are worryingly different.
May 7, 2025
MAGA Beauty Is Built to Go Viral
These Republican women use the vernacular of influencers to spread their message. It’s working, for now.
May 7, 2025
Kristi Noem and the MAGA Beauty Aesthetic
Republican women know what they’re doing.
May 7, 2025
‘A Kind of Last Hurrah for Liberal Catholicism?’: Three Conservative Catholics on Pope Francis and the Conclave
A discussion about Pope Francis’ pontificate and who will be elected the next pope.
May 7, 2025
The Political Tariff Trap for Republicans
Republican leaders face a problem: They have staked it all on passing the tax bill, but that bill makes it more difficult to criticize President Trump’s tariffs.
May 7, 2025
In a World of Addictive Foods, We Need GLP-1s
We may be at the brink of reclaiming our health.
May 7, 2025
Did One of My Students Hate Me Enough to Lie to Get Me in Trouble?
Trump’s assault on higher education could get worse — far worse.
May 7, 2025
A Syrian’s Tantalizing Glimpse of Her Lost Home
After the fall of the Assad regime, not all Syrian refugees can return to the country. One comes as close as she can.
May 7, 2025
Who’s the Greatest Grifter of Them All?
Trump is raising a lot of money and a number of constitutional questions.
May 6, 2025
Lifestyles of the Rich and Miserable
Should we pity the wealthy?
May 6, 2025
Climate Science Is ‘Unstoppable’
The National Climate Assessment has a setback, but help is on the way. Also: Vietnam-era exiles from the U.S.; drugs and tariffs.
May 6, 2025
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump
Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez discusses Trump’s tariffs and where Democrats have gone wrong.
May 6, 2025
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump
Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez discusses Trump’s tariffs and where Democrats have gone wrong.
May 6, 2025
‘Who Buys 30 Dolls?!’: Three Economists on What the Fed Should Do Now
The economic forecasts are murky, the markets are gyrating, and maybe we’ll all get fewer dolls this year.
May 6, 2025
Stop Trying to Make Everyone Go to College
We don’t need to revive the old shop class, but we do need to bolster funding for career and technical education.
May 6, 2025
I Almost Quit My Career for My Kids. Then I Met Joan Darling.
“For the first time since having my kids, I felt like a whole person.”
May 6, 2025
Trump’s Third-Term Jokes Deserve a Serious Response
The president’s fantasizing about remaining in office deserves more forceful pushback.
May 6, 2025
I Almost Quit My Career for My Kids. Then I Met Joan Darling.
“For the first time since having my kids, I felt like a whole person.”
May 6, 2025
Xi Can’t Trust His Own Military
An unending purge in China’s top military ranks raises serious questions over the country’s readiness for offensive war.
May 6, 2025
This Is the Moment of Moral Reckoning in Gaza
Our clinics have found clear evidence of starvation in one-third of the population. And now Israel wants to take over aid.
May 6, 2025
The Likes of Warren Buffett We Will Never See Again
Where in Congress, the media or government is a leader of such principle?
May 5, 2025
Trump on the Constitution: ‘I Don’t Know’
Readers react to President Trump’s answer when asked if he needed to uphold the Constitution. Also: Immigration questions; Meals on Wheels.
May 5, 2025
The New Pulitzer-Winning Play That Meets Our National Moment
A sense of purpose is central to surviving right now — and a great place to draw inspiration and insight is from these five Tony-nominated plays.
May 5, 2025
I Brake for Robins
I wish everyone would slow down. The least we can do is to give our wild neighbors time to cross the roads we have built through the middle of their homes.
May 5, 2025
Gail Collins and Bret Stephens: A Last Conversation
After eight years of weekly chats, one more for the road.
May 5, 2025
The Sagging Dollar Will Usher in a World of Pain
It is suffering from a self-inflicted wound and the world is just starting to share the pain.
May 5, 2025
College Is More Affordable Than Many Parents Think
The real price of college isn’t always the sticker price.
May 5, 2025
How to Fill the America-Shaped Hole in Global Health
The World Health Organization should do what it can do bring the U.S. back as a member.
May 5, 2025
We Have to Deal With Presidential Power
Many of the current efforts to expand the powers of the White House build on the excesses of recent Republican and Democratic presidents.
May 5, 2025
DeepSeek. Temu. TikTok. China Tech Is Starting to Pull Ahead.
America must discard the belief that it is beating China in the innovation race.
May 5, 2025
Daniel Kahneman’s Decision: A Debate About Choice in Dying
Readers discuss an essay about the Nobel laureate’s decision to end his life at 90. Also: Questions for America.
May 4, 2025
Another Reason People Fear the Government
Two cases before the Supreme Court ask why the government is able to avoid liability when it does the wrong thing.
May 4, 2025
At 66, He’s Finally the Husband of My Dreams
Sometimes I wonder, “Why did we have to wait this long?”
May 4, 2025
These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful
The administration reaches back to a European tradition of right-wing thought that favors explicitly monarchical and even dictatorial rule.
May 4, 2025
Democrats Have Been at War With Oil for Too Long
Energy turmoil is no accident — it’s the direct result of President Trump’s economic vandalism.
May 4, 2025
The Dark Side of Empathy
Empathy without ethics isn’t virtuous. It’s manipulative. And it’s starting to feel all too commonplace.
May 4, 2025
One Moment That Foretold It All
The most consequential day of Donald Trump’s second term came before it even began.
May 4, 2025
The World Is Finally Seeing How Dangerous Bukele Really Is
Even if El Salvador’s president has ironically called himself the “coolest dictator in the world,” he’s a dictator nonetheless.
May 4, 2025
Trump’s Failings Are Obvious. Why Are People Still Surprised?
On Trump’s declining popularity and D.E.I.
May 3, 2025
Proof Trump Has No Idea How the Trade Deficit Works
This is the one thing all economists agree on.
May 3, 2025
The Movie Deal That Made Hollywood Lose Its Mind
The obsession with a Black director’s ownership package reflects the themes of his film.
May 3, 2025
Spain in the Dark Is Safer Than Elsewhere With Power
The Iberian blackout showed us how much community matters.
May 3, 2025
A Pianist and a Law Professor Meet at the Bar …
Classical musicians have a lot to teach interpreters of the U.S. Constitution. It’s so much more than the text.
May 3, 2025
Harm From Antidepressants Is Real. Let’s Not Cede the Conversation to Kennedy.
Prozac is nearly 40 years old. Why are there still unanswered questions?
May 3, 2025
I Was Detained for My Beliefs. Who Will Be Next?
Detained at his citizenship interview, the Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi speaks of his ordeal.
May 2, 2025
When Deportation Occurs Without Trials
Readers argue for due process for migrants, and everyone else. Also: Harvard’s defiance; cuts to Meals on Wheels.
May 2, 2025
Trump vs. the Dollar
The economist Kenneth Rogoff traces the dollar’s rise — and potential fall.
May 2, 2025
Trump vs. the Dollar
The economist Kenneth Rogoff traces the dollar’s rise — and potential fall.
May 2, 2025
China Wants to Silence My Organization. Why Is Trump Doing It?
The U.S. government’s dismantling of Radio Free Asia means giving Beijing’s propaganda free rein.
May 2, 2025
What Medicaid Cuts Would Do to My Rural Hospital
Small-town America depends on health care systems like mine, but I’m not sure we’ll be able to keep our doors open if Congress cuts Medicaid.
May 2, 2025
For Those Who Wish to Fight Back but Don’t Know How
Dr. King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” has some pointed guidance for today’s Trump opposition.
May 2, 2025
I Teach Computer Science, and That Is All
Politics has no place at universities or in the classroom.
May 2, 2025
Our Dad, Leonard Bernstein, Would Want His Music Played at the Kennedy Center
Some have urged us to withdraw our father’s music from the Kennedy Center to protest Trump’s hostile takeover. We asked: What would Dad have done?
May 2, 2025
The World Is Watching Canada
Canada’s greatest opportunity lies in its ability to reframe its place in the world beyond America.
May 2, 2025
The Texas Alien Enemies Act Ruling Is Important
A Trump appointee in Texas cares more about the history of what Trump is trying to do with the Alien Enemies Act than the president does.
May 1, 2025
How to Survive the Trump Years With Your Spirit Intact
I’ve found it necessary to root myself in anything that feels rehumanizing, whether it’s art or literature or learning.
May 1, 2025
‘Freedom From Fear’: F.D.R.’s Granddaughter Contrasts Two Presidents
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s granddaughter draws a contrast with Donald Trump. Also: The 100 days; Elon Musk and Mars; lab animals’ fate; money in politics.
May 1, 2025
It’s One of the Things I Always Hated About Cities. And I’ve Decided It’s Just Fine.
A change of heart on other people’s cacophonies
May 1, 2025
The F-Word Won’t Save Democrats
Here’s how they can defeat Trump — no expletive required.
May 1, 2025
The New Culture of the Right: Vital, Masculine and Intentionally Offensive
The left has dictated culture for decades. Jonathan Keeperman is trying to change that.
May 1, 2025
The Christian Right Is Going Extinct
It’s all more Machiavellian than I ever wanted to believe.
May 1, 2025
May 1, 2025
‘I Wanted to Do Work That Was Helping People.’ Then Trump Fired Him — Twice.
The Trump administration saw them as villains. I saw something very different.
May 1, 2025
There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump’s Power Grab
The patriotic response to today’s threat to American democracy is to oppose Trump soberly and strategically.
May 1, 2025
The New Culture of the Right: Vital, Masculine, Intentionally Offensive
The left has dictated culture for decades. Jonathan Keeperman is trying to change that.
May 1, 2025
‘Donald Trump Will Not Be President Four Years Hence’
At least one Opinion columnist is confident about that.
May 1, 2025
A Mother. A Child. An Afternoon at a Prison’s Pretend Home.
In “Weekend Visits,” an incarcerated woman spends a day with her child at an extended visitation house in Virginia.
May 1, 2025
Weekend Visits
An incarcerated woman spends a day with her child at an extended visitation house in Virginia.
May 1, 2025
The U.S. Can’t Handle a War
Armed with powerful, sophisticated weaponry, the U.S. falls far short of the arms and personnel needed to fight long, grinding wars.
May 1, 2025
Climate Change Urgency Has Declined. The Green Transition Hasn’t.
The state of the climate, Part II.
April 30, 2025
More Babies, but Little Support for Them?
Readers discuss the Trump administration’s urging a baby boom while also cutting support for children.
A Great Leap Forward for American Fathers
Dads started spending more time with their kids and realized they liked it.
April 30, 2025
No Ordinary Cabinet. No Ordinary Time.
In his second term, Trump is remaking America. These are the 22 people charged with carrying out his vision.
April 30, 2025
The New Deal Is a Stinging Rebuke to Trump and Trumpism
Autocratic intent does not translate automatically into autocratic success.
April 30, 2025
‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
April 30, 2025
Maureen Dowd and Carlos Lozada on 100 Days of Trump’s ‘Fake Reality’
“Nothing like this has ever happened in Washington.”
April 30, 2025
The Happiest Country in the World Isn’t What You Think
Material prosperity isn’t everything.
April 30, 2025
My Father Founded Singapore. He Wouldn’t Like What It’s Become.
The nation’s current leaders are not living up to my father’s high standards of governance, and Singapore is suffering as a result.
April 30, 2025
Trump Is About to Steal My Friend’s Christmas — and Yours
A disappointed supporter reflects on the madness in the president’s method.
April 29, 2025
100 Days: Report Cards on Trump
Evaluating the president on the first 100 days of his second term. Also: State Department cuts; the end of The Conversation, with Gail Collins and Bret Stephens.
April 29, 2025
Canada Rejects Statehood
The anger in Canada is evident in many other ways; Canadians have always felt close to but distinct from Americans. A hostile America was something they never imagined.
April 29, 2025
Abundance and the Left
Saikat Chakrabarti and Zephyr Teachout offer their perspectives on why America struggles to build.
April 29, 2025
Don’t Look to the Courts to Be Rule-of-Law Cops Against Trump
The courts are caught in the middle of a crisis, but it’s not something they can adequately remedy.
April 29, 2025
How Does a Stymied Autocrat Deal With Defeat?
The president, one psychologist says, is a perfect example of authoritarian personality syndrome.
April 29, 2025
These 12 Voters Swung to Trump For the First Time in 2024. Here’s How They See Him Now.
The participants discuss President Trump’s second first 100 days in office.
April 29, 2025
Immigrants From Around the Country Keep Getting Detained in Louisiana. It’s No Coincidence.
Louisiana is a legal black hole for immigrants.
April 29, 2025
Abundance and the Left
Saikat Chakrabarti and Zephyr Teachout offer their perspectives on why America struggles to build.
April 29, 2025
What Defined Trump’s First 100 Days? 15 Columnists Weigh In.
Tariffs, deportations, mass firings, shifting alliances — this is the first draft of his new America.
April 29, 2025
‘You See What’s Happening in America With Elon Musk? We Need the Same Thing Happening Here.’
Much of the British political class laughed at Nigel Farage in 2016. It isn’t laughing now.
April 29, 2025
I Can’t Believe Anyone Thinks Trump Actually Cares About Antisemitism
Jews should remember how Trump promised to “protect” L.G.B.T.Q. citizens.
April 28, 2025
The ‘Generation Trump’ Thesis Is Looking a Lot Shakier
Six months ago, the victory of the ex-president wasn’t just a devastating defeat for the left; it also marked a tectonic shift. Now, though, the polling looks different.
April 28, 2025
The Chaotic First 100 Days of Trump 2.0
Responses to a column by David Brooks about President Trump’s “energy.” Also: Cutting regulations; a project for Democrats; a general’s call to arms; how to age well.
April 28, 2025
April 28, 2025
One Last Chat About Trump
All good things come to an end. What about bad things?
April 28, 2025
Tariffs Could Ruin My Small Business
Trump gave Apple a break. What about the lone entrepreneur?
April 28, 2025
White House Tech Bros Are Killing What Made Them (and America) Wealthy
Underlying many investments are breakthroughs in medicine and technology from great universities.
April 28, 2025
The ‘Recklessness Itself Sends a Message’: 35 Legal Experts Assess Trump’s Return
A diverse group of legal scholars flashes red warning lights about the future of America.
April 28, 2025
I Worked for Harris and Biden. Here’s the Missing Link for Democrats.
Opt-out voters don’t buy what we’re selling — and even if they did, we’d have a hard time reaching them.
April 28, 2025
How the American Right Learned to Love Psychedelics
A once left-wing psychedelic movement has become tightly entwined with the Trump administration.
April 28, 2025
Trump Is Laying a Potentially Deadly Trap for the U.S. Auto Industry
Trump’s approach risks leaving U.S. automakers isolated and incapable of competing on their own merits as foreign companies bolt ahead.
April 28, 2025
Trump Doesn’t Want to Protect All Jewish Students — Just Those on His Team
Going after antisemitism on campus has swept up Jewish students protesting the war in Gaza.
April 28, 2025
The Fear Factor and America’s Future
Readers respond to a column by Thomas L. Friedman. Also: Depression and aging; Paul Revere’s legacy.
April 27, 2025
Harvard Is an Imperfect Vehicle for Fighting Trump. It Doesn’t Matter.
The university’s defense of the Constitution doesn’t absolve it of its own sins, but the defense of the Constitution often comes through imperfect vehicles.
April 27, 2025
Three Opinion Writers on the Havoc Kennedy Has Wreaked So Far
A conversation about the health secretary’s first two months.
April 27, 2025
Trump’s Biggest Beneficiary: Himself
Donald Trump has set a new standard for egregious and potentially illegal behavior.
April 27, 2025
100 Days. That’s All It Took to Sever America From the World.
This is more than a shift in foreign policy; it’s a divorce so comprehensive that it makes Brexit look modest by comparison.
April 27, 2025
The Dinner That Helped Save Europe
The relationship between the national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Pope John Paul II proved critical in 1980 in dissuading the Soviets from invading Poland.
April 27, 2025
Turkey’s People Are Resisting Autocracy. They Deserve More Than Silence.
The world’s democracies can speak up to make Erdogan’s life less comfortable.
April 27, 2025
This Is How to Win an Environmental Fight
Thousands of ordinary Americans whose lives have been upended by forever chemicals are battling to end their use.
April 27, 2025
Trump Doesn’t Want to Govern
He wants to rule.
April 26, 2025
Cottage Cheese Is Bad, Actually
How I fell into and out of love with protein
April 26, 2025
American Values Are Threatened by the American President
After my dad was disappeared abroad, he fled to this land, which exemplified respect for law and a welcome for refugees. Until now.
April 26, 2025
Trump’s Vicious Sewing Circle
Catfights abound in Trump’s macho world.
April 26, 2025
Trump Is Breaking the Rule That Every Barroom Brawler Knows
Don’t drop your guard while picking fights around the globe.
April 26, 2025
Why Is Trump Doing All This?
Opinion columnists break down the motives behind the president’s blitz of executive actions since he took office.
April 26, 2025
Why Is Trump Struggling? His Administration Is Too Black-Pilled.
Even in a dire situation, you still need a response calibrated to reality.
April 26, 2025
Thoughts on Better Thinking
Readers on reading: Responses to David Brooks’s column about the state of literacy in America.
April 26, 2025
Can the Catholic Church Quit the Culture Wars?
The challenges for Catholicism in the modern world.
April 26, 2025
Our After-Dinner Debate About Larry David’s Satire
Sampling the outpouring of reader responses to the comedian’s imaginary dinner with Hitler. Also: The law firms’ test; a plea for democracy.
April 25, 2025
Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics
The Times Opinion columnist discusses religion and belief — at this moment in our politics and in our lives more generally.
April 25, 2025
The Terrifying Prospect of Trump’s Peace Plan for Ukraine
Assenting to Russia’s annexation of Crimea would have global consequences.
April 25, 2025
We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. What We Saw Was a Warning to Us All.
The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.
April 25, 2025
Kennedy Described My Daughter’s Reality
I don’t care if my child with autism ever pays taxes, but I do care that she may never have the opportunity to work or live independently.
April 25, 2025
Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics
The Times Opinion columnist discusses religion and belief — at this moment in our politics, and in our lives more generally.
April 25, 2025
What Is the Defining Image of Trump’s First 100 Days?
Opinion columnists share the piece of media that most defines the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term.
April 25, 2025
The Things Only English Can Say
Writing in a second language can feel unnatural, but it presents a new way for writers to understand who they are — and how they fit into the world.
April 25, 2025
My Oscar for ‘No Other Land’ Didn’t Protect Me From Violence
Hamdan Ballal won an Oscar for co-directing “No Other Land,” then went home to the West Bank and was attacked and arrested.
April 25, 2025
The Trump Victim I Can’t Stop Thinking About
It’s a moral imperative to try to rescue people like Andry Hernández Romero.
April 24, 2025
A Mistake in a New York Court Exposes the Truth About Trump’s Legal Strategy
The episode of the inadvertent court filings in the New York congestion-pricing case embodies the full range of the Trump administration’s incompetence.
April 24, 2025