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What Would a Better Israeli Prime Minister Do?
The leaders who brought Israel into crisis won’t be able to bring it out of it.
By Bret Stephens
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
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
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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’
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
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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
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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The candidates have no shortage of flaws.
By Ross Douthat
By averting his eyes as his red lines are ignored, Biden is wasting his leverage over Israel.
By Nicholas Kristof
He’s just as intense, but a bit more mellow. Or is he?
By Maureen Dowd
The case against Marcellus Williams is far from settled.
By David French
The former president is no more prepared for a second term than he was for a first. He may even be less prepared.
By Jamelle Bouie
Democrats should rally around a bill to overhaul the 1873 anti-vice law.
By Michelle Goldberg
Inflation is Biden’s weak spot. Matthew Yglesias argues that it may also be Trump’s.
By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’
Can populist leaders actually fix the world’s unsolvable problems?
By Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat, Carlos Lozada and Lydia Polgreen
Audaciously and laughably, a playboy plutocrat turns himself into Everyman.
By Frank Bruni
I don’t like operating in unison, and I’ve never been much of a tribalist or a joiner.
By Pamela Paul
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A collection of stories on the challenges and joys of coming out later in life.
By Charles M. Blow and Vishakha Darbha
What does the rise of partisan sectarians portend for the rest of us?
By Thomas B. Edsall
Easy money destroyed the basis for productive, competitive markets.
By Bret Stephens
You have to wonder if American “friends” of Israel have any clue about the nature of Israel’s government.
By Thomas L. Friedman
The best way to think of the holiday is not as the moment Black people attained freedom but as a moment in the struggle to realize freedom.
By Charles M. Blow
Yanna Krupnikov probes the motivations of Americans who avoid politics — but often vote.
By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’
A Christian nationalist upset causes Republican angst.
By Michelle Goldberg
A look at the senator’s defense of Donald Trump’s conduct after the 2020 election.
By Jamelle Bouie
Infected with ideological purity, the West Coast is focused more on intentions than on oversight and outcomes.
By Nicholas Kristof
The Israeli journalist Amit Segal discusses Benny Gantz’s departure from the war cabinet, Israel’s shift to the right and whether a new theory of security is emerging in Israeli politics.
By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’
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Hollywood shouldn’t pre-emptively capitulate to the MAGA movement.
By Michelle Goldberg
There cannot be compromise on the question of American democracy.
By Jamelle Bouie
Intelligence strongly correlates with positive educational and career outcomes, but it is not everything.
By David Brooks
In a long conversation, the first-term senator from Ohio talks about Trump, populism, the 2020 election, Ukraine and the Republican V.P. slot.
By Ross Douthat
It was never going to be easy to get voters to abandon their hero.
By Thomas B. Edsall
Israel, Ukraine and American democracy are on the line.
By Bret Stephens
Even the weak regulatory grasp of capitalist democracy is too strong for, well, capitalists.
By Jamelle Bouie
Why higher rates are replacing inflation as the thing to hate.
By Paul Krugman and Peter Coy
The MAGA movement tears another state Republican Party apart.
By Michelle Goldberg
Why America’s oligarchs are rallying around Trump.
By Paul Krugman
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Here’s looking at you, Hunter.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
There is a difference between peace and capitulation.
By David French
The era of Southern apartheid is inseparable from poverty, exploitation and violence.
By Jamelle Bouie
His executive order limiting asylum seekers may be political, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
By Nicholas Kristof
Officials should have told us what they knew, or at least leveled with us about what they didn’t know.
By Zeynep Tufekci
Why the MAGA movement loves Mafiosi.
By Michelle Goldberg
This is what happens when you say it’s the legal system that’s indefensible.
By Jamelle Bouie
Annie Lowrey talks about how the affordability crisis is shaping how Americans perceive the state of the economy.
By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’
Progressive elites aren’t helping the people they say they’re fighting for, and they’re hurting the rest of us.
By David Brooks
It’s a political problem, not an economic crisis.
By Paul Krugman
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Not everything is in crisis.
By David French
Democratic complacency in 2016 was foolish. In 2024 it’s incomprehensible.
By Frank Bruni
I remind myself to relish every summer day.
By Charles M. Blow
Trump sort of photosynthesizes any and all attention to grow bigger and stronger. What’s Biden to do?
By Frank Bruni, Josh Barro and Olivia Nuzzi
It’s crazy to think Donald Trump wants to be a felon.
By Jamelle Bouie
The implications for politics reach well beyond deep fakes.
By Thomas B. Edsall
People, and nations, succeed or fail to the extent that they refuse to hand over responsibility for their fates to others.
By Bret Stephens
The landing is almost here, but will it be soft?
By Paul Krugman
In the past, the G.O.P. could’ve prevented a candidate like Donald Trump from running. But Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld argue the party structure has been “hollowed out” over the years.
By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’
It’s corrupt, rotten and hurting America.
By Maureen Dowd
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Donald Trump’s second term would be even more corrupt and vindictive than his first.
By Michelle Goldberg
A radical idea: The administration should just tell the truth.
By Paul Krugman
Is it still true that there’s no such thing as bad publicity?
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
Sonia Sotomayor helped protect the country from Donald Trump, and she did it in an unexpected way.
By David French
The country’s story of liberation has been both a symbol of hope and a burden. Now it’s time for reality.
By Lydia Polgreen
But the real verdict comes on 11/5.
By Maureen Dowd
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