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Caregiving, the Life-Altering Job You Didn’t Apply For
The elderly population is on the rise, bringing the United States' caregiving crisis into sharp focus. On this episode of “The Opinions,” the produce…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Is the ICE Crackdown Finally Backfiring on Trump?
President Trump’s call to de-escalate tensions in Minneapolis was short lived, but anger over the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti continues to…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Esther Perel on Why A.I. Intimacy Feels Safe but Isn’t Real
To love is to be human. Or is it? As human-chatbot relationships become more common, the Times Opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman talks to the p…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Tom Friedman: Minneapolis, Alex Pretti and a Democracy at Risk
The Times Opinion columnist Thomas L. Friedman grew up in Minnesota and spent much of his career traveling to the Middle East. In the aftermath of th…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
ICE Is Splitting America in Two
President Trump’s vision of executive power is reshaping America and the world. For “The Opinions,” Aaron Retica, an editor in Opinion, sits down wit…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Hello, Greenland. Goodbye, Checks and Balances.
President Trump has changed America — and the world — in ways both large and small in the first year of his second term. In a live event recorded at …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?
The midterms are coming, and President Trump is already sounding the alarm. For this week’s round table, the columnists David French and Jamelle Boui…
9 months ago
A Venezuelan Economist on What Trump Gets Wrong About Venezuela
Nicolás Maduro may be out, but Venezuela’s Chavista regime still holds power. Meanwhile, the opposition leader and Nobel Prize winner María Corina Ma…
9 months ago
The Internet May Look Different After You Listen to This
A.I. slop is taking over the internet. As the line between human-made and machine-made art blurs — and real and fake images collapse into one another…
9 months ago
From ICE to Foreign Quagmires: Escalation Everywhere
President Trump began 2026 by invading an autonomous nation and capturing its leader. The Opinion politics writer Michelle Cottle talks to the column…
9 months, 1 week ago