Opinion Columnists

A full plate of culture war and conspiracy theories.

America is being tested in so many ways right now.

The uproars that don’t seem to touch Trump at all can still bring down other Republicans.

Looking at who Trump was, is and would be.

Every death of a child from the war in Gaza is a preventable tragedy.

How vaccine injuries and long Covid test our partisan beliefs.

A reading list outside the progressive box.

Swing-state Republicans are running from the anti-abortion movement.

And the role politicians play in all of it.

Netanyahu is making his nation more like the worst of the old kingdom, and the crown prince is making his kingdom more like the best of the old Jewish state.

Are you better off than you were four years ago? Yes.

The excesses of social protest movements can play into the hands of candidates who promise to restore order.

There is no originalist case for presidential immunity.

Supposedly principled Republicans can’t reconcile condemnation of Trump with refusal to back Biden.

In her conversation with the vice president, Drew Barrymore allowed informality to veer into disrespect.

I worry that the more aggressive demonstrators may be hurting the Gazans they’re trying to support.

The oldest president is in big trouble with the youngest voters, especially men.

It’s good to have a reality check every few months.

A powerful new documentary gives voice to the rape victims of Oct 7.

Reconsidering my views on interest rates.

The environmental data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that climate technology is increasingly catching up to the world’s enormous need for clean energy and with a few changes, a more sustainable future is in sight.

What explains the almost total absence of working-class people from elected positions in state government?

Beware strongmen who engage in magical thinking.

And a few things we’d like to forget.

PEN America needs to ensure more than one point of view is heard on even the most contentious issue.

We think of adding regulation as something liberals do and removing regulation as something conservatives do. But that is only part of the story.

How do we find our way to a campus culture in which everyone can be heard?

On what planet were Trump’s actions a normal response to political defeat?

How Israel became the focus of so much of contemporary protest politics.

The Biden administration should be more transparent about weapons sent to Israel.

There may be problems in the student protest movement for Gaza, but they are not misguided in their goals.

Israel is facing one of the most fateful choices it has ever had to make.

If commerce demands constant songwriting, she needs new characters to play.

The former president’s claim that he has absolute immunity for criminal acts taken in office as president is an insult to reason.

Lessons from a tumultuous summer.

The renowned author reflects on the fatwa ordered against him decades ago for his book “The Satanic Verses” — and surviving a brutal attack in 2022.

Don’t bet the house on a rosy future.

He’s the most pro-labor president since Harry Truman. Is that enough?

In this one instance, at least, he stood on principle.

Never had our culture made the claiming of complaint such an animating force.

The suffering in the war in Gaza is unacceptable. Young people will make that point clear this summer in Chicago.

“There’s a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1.”

It is difficult, if not impossible, to attempt to counter polarization at a time when partisan sectarianism is intense and pervasive.

Nicholas Kristof asks: Where has our moral president gone?

Behavior that would be scandalous if aimed at other minorities is treated as understandable or even commendable when directed at Jews.

Lessons of Lend-Lease for the current crisis.

It has never been more obvious that the Republican Party is the party of the boss.

The venerated editor Adam Moss walks through how to make good work great.

Who let the grown-ups out?

Evangelicals, fundamentalists and Pentecostals are taking the church in very different directions.

Alex Garland’s “Civil War” is not a vision of what might happen in America but a collage of what already has happened, some here and much elsewhere.

Exceptions to abortion bans aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

The former first lady is swept back into the Stormy cyclone.

Both parties experience echoes of decades past.

Humility can be a bulwark against arrogance, absolutism, purity and zeal, and an antidote in our age of grievance.

Revisiting Michael Crichton’s prophecy of cultural stagnation.

“It’s the worst story I’ve ever covered.”

Whereas an earlier generation complained of C.I.O. “communism,” this one warns of U.A.W. socialism.

The president didn’t start the war in the Middle East. But now it could define his campaign — and his legacy.

Dr. Hilary Cass’s thoughtful medical review is a model for how we should address difficult issues.

The latest campus antisemitism hearing was a travesty.

Trump’s trial brings more questions than answers to the fore.

Roommate matching eliminates an important part of the college experience.

With the issue of abortion rights, the vice president has hit her stride.

Is it possible for us to get to the same place on gun safety that we’re getting to on abortion — where the people who make the policy feel pressure to be sensible?

Not just a deepening of present discontents but a dramatic crash or rupture.

Support leadership change in Iran, Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Without that, there’s zero chance for resolution.

The federal courts and the Arizona Supreme Court have conjured a past that rejects the right to bodily autonomy.

Jerusalem Demsas discusses the red tape that makes it difficult for blue states to achieve ambitious infrastructure and policy goals.

Israel has the right to retaliate against Iran’s missile barrage. It should bide its time.

There now needs to be a large, sustained, global initiative to isolate Iran.

Struggling men need to leave the gurus behind.

Alex Garland’s new film is most interested in the experience of living through an armed conflict.

There’s a difference between being aware of your base and being its prisoner.

A geopolitical allegory whose meaning shifts from version to version.

The Electoral College as we know it is less a product of the insight or design of the framers and more a contingent adaptation to the political world.

Alex Garland’s film isn’t nearly as apolitical as its critics say.

Anthropic’s co-founder and C.E.O. explains why he thinks artificial intelligence is on an “exponential curve.”

Does God have to be Republican?

I always thought of the Simpson case as a great American tragedy, with its echoes of “Othello.”

Amid a wider national atmosphere of division, distrust, bitterness and exhaustion, middle managers are the frontline workers trying to resolve tensions and keep communities working.

There is no longer a truly pro-life party in the United States.

The great 2024 exodus is all about Trump-era discord and dysfunction.

Trump is the embodiment of the politics of intimidation.

Abortion opponents are entirely misaligned with the Trumpist form of conservatism.

The columnist Michelle Goldberg reports on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s coalition of the alienated.

Israel is at a strategic point in its war in Gaza and there is every indication that Benjamin Netanyahu is going to choose the wrong path.

Being pro-Israel doesn’t entail slavish support for any leader of the country, particularly its most failed one.

How America avoided recession (so far).

He landed a major blow against legal abortion during his first term. If given a second, he will land another.

His allies are planning to resurrect and enforce the 19th-century Comstock Act.

The economy is in good shape. Why are so many Americans still saying it’s bad?

As totality approached, it felt, for a change, as if we were all rooting for the same team.

Nicholas Kristof on why tech companies aren’t powerless over the spread of deepfake porn.

Avert your eyes.

The Israel Defense Forces’ military challenge is inseparable from its humanitarian obligations.

There’s a better way to do email.

Marjorie and Donald, trumpeting the end times.

Comforted by neither God nor history, and hoping vaguely that therapy can take their place.

His inflated sense of his fitness to lead isn’t just delusional. It’s dangerous.