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The Beautiful Danger of Normal Life During an Autocratic Rise
In this episode, the editorial director David Leonhardt and the Opinion columnist M. Gessen discuss the very human inclination to try to return to no…
1 year, 4 months ago
Is the Ukraine War the Next Afghanistan?
After speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, Donald President Trump says Moscow plans to retaliate against Ukraine for the coun…
1 year, 4 months ago
A Punk Survival Guide for Gen Z
The writer and performer John Cameron Mitchell has a message for members of Generation Z: Stop playing it safe and embrace punk. Mitchell, who wrote …
1 year, 4 months ago
Why Politics Feels So Cruel Right Now
In this episode, the Times Opinion politics correspondent Michelle Cottle speaks to the columnists Jamelle Bouie and David French about the rise of “…
1 year, 4 months ago
Tom Friedman: Will Israel’s War Ever End?
The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has spent decades covering Israel and the Middle East. For this episode of “The Opinions,” the deputy ed…
1 year, 4 months ago
How to Turn the Middle Against Trump
In this episode, David Leonhardt, an Opinion editorial director, asks Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan why the Democratic Party has lost so many vo…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Good News About a Bad G.P.A.
The Opinion contributing writer Megan Stack has a gift for high school graduates who struggled academically or who feel like life is passing them by.…
1 year, 4 months ago
Are We in a New Era of Presidential Regalism?
Who knew what when? Two new books paint a damning portrait of the Democratic Party and what some of its members knew about President Joe Biden’s dete…
1 year, 4 months ago
Michelle Goldberg: ‘More Democrats Need to Be Doing This’
In this episode, David Leonhardt, the editorial director of the editorial board, asks the Opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg what Democrats are doin…
1 year, 5 months ago
Trump’s Era of International Bullying
With President Trump meeting with heads of state in the Middle East this week, the Times Opinion senior international editor Krista Mahr sat down wit…
1 year, 5 months ago