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The Presidential Fitness Test Is Back
This time with actual presidents.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
This time with actual presidents.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
The White House desperately tries to take word salad off the menu.
By Maureen Dowd
In both Trump cases the liberal dissenters are more originalist than the conservative majority.
By David French
The president just doesn’t see that it’s time to take the win.
By Maureen Dowd
These Palestinians say Arabs and Jews can live in peace.
By Nicholas Kristof
Trump’s refusal to quit in 2016 won’t work for the incumbent in 2024.
By Ross Douthat
To make sense of a decaying America, Thomas L. Friedman talks to a trusted friend about the mangrove tree.
By Thomas L. Friedman, Jillian Weinberger and Kaari Pitkin
The American Republic feels fragile.
By Tressie McMillan Cottom
Why subordinates or the “deep state” can’t substitute for a vacuum at the top.
By Ross Douthat
Does Biden run? Does he step aside? His recurring considerations are family, legacy and, yes, his age.
By Carlos Lozada
The political journalist Elaina Plott Calabro traces the political trajectory of the vice president — and why her 2016 image might be just right for 2024.
By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’
Impeachments, bankruptcies, fraud judgments, felonies. Nothing sticks. Nothing matters.
By Frank Bruni
Christian nationalists aim to impose their beliefs on others.
By Pamela Paul
Gretchen Whitmer, Kamala Harris, President Biden — who is best positioned to beat Donald Trump in November?
By Charles M. Blow, Ross Douthat, David French, Nicholas Kristof, Pamela Paul, Lydia Polgreen, Derek Arthur, Sophia Alvarez Boyd, Vishakha Darbha and Jillian Weinberger
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Israel and the U.S. have made a boogeyman out of the U.N. group that’s providing critical services in Gaza.
By Nicholas Kristof
Instead of clearing the way for victory, liberals may well be paving the way for defeat.
By Charles M. Blow
The leaders who brought Israel into crisis won’t be able to bring it out of it.
By Bret Stephens
Trump fears that Biden will demonstrate the difference between a leader who puts the country first and a leader who put himself first.
By Thomas L. Friedman
Thanks to Donald Trump, we don’t have to speculate.
By Paul Krugman
The messy, fascinating history of American exceptionalism has taken a strange turn.
By Carlos Lozada
The Nixonian theory of presidential power is now enshrined as constitutional law.
By Jamelle Bouie
The president’s team should stop gaslighting us.
By Michelle Goldberg
They share anti-immigrant prejudices, but not all the same policy priorities.
By Paul Krugman
Americans are owed better from the Democratic Party.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
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On the eve of going to prison, populism’s grand strategist talks about what another Trump presidency would look like and the rise of MAGA-type movements around the world.
By David Brooks
What is the Democratic Party for if not for dealing with a situation like this?
By Ezra Klein
Rarely has a case had less legal meaning and greater moral weight.
By David French
A second Biden term would be unusually dangerous for the country in a very significant way.
By Ross Douthat
With Israel possibly winding down its war in Gaza, we should be paying more attention to the crisis building in the more populous West Bank.
By Nicholas Kristof
Do the Democrats really want to stop Trump? What are they prepared to do?
By Maureen Dowd
None of the options ensure victory against Trump — and some of them could badly split the party.
By Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Goldberg, Patrick Healy and Bret Stephens
A late-Soviet debate night doesn’t mean we’re in late-Soviet America.
By Ross Douthat
The vice president is the obvious path out of the mess Joe Biden has created.
By Lydia Polgreen
I joined my Times Opinion colleagues Ross Douthat and Michelle Cottle to discuss the debate — and what Democrats might do next.
By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’
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Three Opinion writers weigh in on the first presidential debate of 2024.
By Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat and Ezra Klein
Donald Trump is too grave a threat to America. Democrats need a nominee who can unite the country and articulate a compelling vision for it.
By Thomas L. Friedman
Democrats must grapple with his disastrous debate.
By Frank Bruni
The Trumpist right is presenting aggressive legal theories that fail again and again.
By David French
Homicides, which surged during 2020, have been plunging.
By Paul Krugman
A debate before the debate.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
When the two candidates square off, we can expect disorientation, dizziness and much else.
By Frank Bruni, Matthew Continetti and Olivia Nuzzi
The left’s narcissism of small differences hands mainstream positions to Republicans.
By Pamela Paul
Where would each of the candidates lead us — or drag us — on foreign policy issues convulsing the world?
By Nicholas Kristof
While Maryland embraces egalitarianism, Louisiana veers toward Christian nationalism.
By Charles M. Blow
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We take a look at J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Doug Burgum, Tim Scott, Elise Stefanik and more possible Republican running mates.
By Ross Douthat, David French, Michelle Goldberg and Bret Stephens
Both parties are changing shape. What should they do about it?
By Thomas B. Edsall
An incident at Columbia suggests that schools beset with antisemitism are beyond salvation.
By Bret Stephens
The breathless catastrophizing of Trump and his allies is not an expression of ignorance as much as it is a statement of intent.
By Jamelle Bouie
The high stakes of Bowman’s primary make his carelessness especially frustrating.
By Michelle Goldberg
Modern American lawmakers are not limited by the colonial imagination.
By David French
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