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It’s Not Just Trump Voters. Both Parties Are in Denial.
In this episode, the editorial board director David Leonhardt talks to Arlie Russell Hochschild about why voters in Appalachia continue to support th…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Three Opinion Writers on the L.A. Protests and Trump’s Spectacle of Control
This week, President Trump ordered the National Guard and the Marines to Los Angeles to confront protesters. Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., he is pu…
7 months ago
The Israeli Hostage Who Refused to Embrace Revenge
Liat Beinin Atzili was held hostage by Hamas in Gaza for 54 days. When she returned to Israel, she learned her husband was murdered on Oct. 7. In thi…
7 months ago
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…
7 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…
7 months, 1 week 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 …
7 months, 1 week 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 “…
7 months, 1 week 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…
7 months, 2 weeks 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…
7 months, 2 weeks 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.…
7 months, 3 weeks ago