What Have We Liberals Done to the West Coast?
Infected with ideological purity, the West Coast is focused more on intentions than on oversight and outcomes.
By Nicholas Kristof
Infected with ideological purity, the West Coast is focused more on intentions than on oversight and outcomes.
By Nicholas Kristof
The experience of living with my father’s dementia ranged from tragic to tragicomic to vaudevillian, often within the span of a few minutes.
By Cornelia Channing
The future is uncertain. But it feels less scary surrounded by feathered friends.
By Andy Rementer and George Rementer
After a profound national rupture, forgiveness may be impossible. But the long-overlooked act of oblivion could offer a solution.
By Linda Kinstler
“When you live in the past, the people around you hate you, don’t understand and don’t accept you,” Valentyna Odnoviu wrote.
By Frankie Mills
Hollywood shouldn’t pre-emptively capitulate to the MAGA movement.
By Michelle Goldberg
In a long conversation, the first-term senator from Ohio talks about Trump, populism, the 2020 election, Ukraine and the Republican V.P. slot.
By Ross Douthat
In calling snap elections, Emmanuel Macron has taken a dangerous gamble.
By Cole Stangler
Even the weak regulatory grasp of capitalist democracy is too strong for, well, capitalists.
By Jamelle Bouie
Never has the country looked less like a leader and more like the head of a faction.
By Stephen Wertheim
Progressives need to stop thinking of family as a conservative hobbyhorse.
By Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman
The Unabomber personified how we use the West as a mirror for the dark, untamed aspects of our national character.
By Maxim Loskutoff
No matter what seemingly hopeless mess you have made, everything can still work out.
By Megan K. Stack
His executive order limiting asylum seekers may be political, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
By Nicholas Kristof
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Officials should have told us what they knew, or at least leveled with us about what they didn’t know.
By Zeynep Tufekci
As the country becomes increasingly divided, Brownsville comes together.
By Cecilia Ballí and Thalía Gochez
Readers discuss a column by Pamela Paul about college protesters’ job prospects and future careers.
In a democracy, how far is too far?
By Jon Grinspan
This is what happens when you say it’s the legal system that’s indefensible.
By Jamelle Bouie
A vitally important public policy was derailed over political concerns.
By Mara Gay
The voters have spoken: They want to keep their democracy.
By Lydia Polgreen
Trump sort of photosynthesizes any and all attention to grow bigger and stronger. What’s Biden to do?
By Frank Bruni, Josh Barro and Olivia Nuzzi
Modern boyhood is an apprenticeship in loneliness.
By Ruth Whippman
It’s corrupt, rotten and hurting America.
By Maureen Dowd
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The group discusses the trial, the verdict and its possible influence on the 2024 election.
By Patrick Healy, Adrian J. Rivera and Frank Luntz
The world must not continue to bear the intolerable risks of research with the potential to cause pandemics.
By Alina Chan
The hotter it gets, the more difficult it is for our bodies to cope.
By Jeff Goodell
This is how judges can remain pillars for the rule of law in America.
By George Grasso
A photographer captured the crowds outside the courthouse during Trump’s trial — and as the historic verdict came down.
By Lucia Buricelli
The country’s story of liberation has been both a symbol of hope and a burden. Now it’s time for reality.
By Lydia Polgreen
But the real verdict comes on 11/5.
By Maureen Dowd
It’s not a black-and-white morality tale.
By Nicholas Kristof
Readers discuss reports of a decline in deaths in the U.S. but a rise in Baltimore.
Times Opinion writers reflect on an extraordinary development in American political history.
By New York Times Opinion
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Betting puts pressure on pro athletes. The cracks are starting to show.
By Leigh Steinberg
The stakes for our democracy should be obvious.
By Paul Krugman
He has spent much of his lifetime and all of his political career preparing for a chapter like this.
By Frank Bruni
The defense failed to focus on the most important things.
By Renato Mariotti
The former president’s conviction in a New York criminal trial revealed, yet again, why he is unfit for office.
By The Editorial Board
Can they really decide for themselves whether they can be impartial?
By Jamie Raskin
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