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Zadie Smith on Populists, Frauds and Flip Phones
I stumbled on a Zadie Smith line recently that stopped me in my tracks. She was writing in January 2017, and describing the political stakes of that …
2 years ago
The Real ‘Border Czar’ Defends the Biden-Harris Record
Republicans want to label Kamala Harris as the border czar. And by just looking at a chart, you can see why. Border crossings were low when Donald Tr…
2 years ago
Harris Had a Theory of Trump, and It Was Right
Tuesday night was the first — perhaps the only — debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. And it proved one of Harris’s stump speech lines righ…
2 years ago
The Opinions: A Pro-Life Case for Harris and a Writing Contest With ChatGPT
Our Times Opinion colleagues recently launched a new podcast called “The Opinions.” It’s basically the Opinion page in audio form, so you can hear yo…
2 years, 1 month ago
On Children, Meaning, Media and Psychedelics
I feel that there’s something important missing in our debate over screen time and kids — and even screen time and adults. In the realm of kids and t…
2 years, 1 month ago
Best Of: Tired? Distracted? Burned Out? Listen to This.
I’m convinced that attention is the most important human faculty. Your life, after all, is just the sum total of the things you’ve paid attention to.…
2 years, 1 month ago
Best Of: The Men — and Boys — Are Not Alright
We recently did an episode on the strange new gender politics that have emerged in the 2024 election. But we only briefly touched on the social and e…
2 years, 1 month ago
Kamala Harris Wants to Win
On Thursday night, Kamala Harris reintroduced herself to America. And by the standards of Democratic convention speeches, this one was pretty unusual…
2 years, 1 month ago
Can the Democratic Party Reclaim Freedom?
Democrats spent the third night of their convention pitching themselves as the party of freedom. In this conversation, my producer Annie Galvin joine…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Obamas Strike Back
Is Obamaism making a comeback? Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention, Michelle and Barack Obama electrified the crowd with the most pow…
2 years, 1 month ago