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They Saved Taxpayers Billions. Trump Fired Them Anyway.
Inspectors general are our government watchdogs. They root out corruption and check for fraud and inefficiencies — all things President Trump has cla…
10 months ago
'Is the Destruction the Point?': Three Opinion Writers on Trump's First 50 Days
President Donald Trump is about halfway through his first 100 days in office. In this episode of The Opinions, Patrick Healy talks with the columnist…
10 months ago
I’m a Transgender Colonel. Trump Wants Me Out.
Time is running out for transgender service members in the U.S. military. The Trump administration has put in motion plans to identify and remove tra…
10 months ago
David Brooks on Why the Democrats Are Losing to Trump
The columnist David Brooks joins Patrick Healy to take stock of President Trump’s fifth address to Congress, to analyze the Democrats’ response, and …
10 months, 1 week ago
Elon Musk and the Useless Spending-Cut Theater of DOGE
As a fiscal conservative, the columnist David French would normally be excited about a Department of Government Efficiency and the opportunity to rei…
10 months, 1 week ago
What Man's Man Politics Is Doing to America
President Trump’s outsize performance of masculinity has won him attention, elections and the support of manosphere influencers like Andrew Tate and …
10 months, 1 week ago
The Most Important Lesson in Sex Ed Isn’t Actually Sex
When Hillary Frank took her middle-school-age daughter to see “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.,” she was surprised to learn that the fictional …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
What an F.B.I. Under Patel and Bongino Might Mean for America
President Trump has appointed Dan Bongino — a former U.S. Secret Service agent, right-wing podcaster and an outspoken critic of the F.B.I. — as the a…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump’s Bargain With Putin Is ‘Shameful’
Turning our back on Ukraine would only weaken America.
The Trump administration may be considering negotiating a peace deal with Russia that would end…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Thomas Friedman Has Given Up on Politics — but Not on the World
President Trump appears ready to cut a deal that could end Russia’s war in Ukraine without ever consulting Ukraine. In this episode, the deputy Opini…
10 months, 3 weeks ago