Opinion Columnists

How Silicon Valley and religious conservatism might converge.

By Ross Douthat

So that’s what a post-assassination-attempt speech sounds like.

By Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat and Carlos Lozada

After years on a self-mythologizing hero’s journey, the former president finally had a true story to tell.

By Maureen Dowd

If Democrats hope to win, they have to take the MAGA worldview seriously and respectfully make the case, especially to working-class voters, for something better.

By David Brooks

He’s a “populist” who holds contempt for the working class.

By Paul Krugman

We won’t preserve American democracy through silence and timidity.

By David French

Nicholas Kristof argues that Biden mirroring Trump’s talking points undermines the 46th president’s legacy.

By Nicholas Kristof and Jillian Weinberger

Those who want a new presidential nominee need to go public.

By Michelle Goldberg

In the canon of Trump books and speeches, “fight” is a constant byword.

By Carlos Lozada

Tim Alberta discusses why Trump’s campaign managers are increasingly confident they’re going to win by a landslide this November.

By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’

If Democrats don’t stop laughing at this G.O.P. effort they may soon need an “autopsy” of their own.

By Charles M. Blow

Democrats are putting loyalty to a leader over country. Sound familiar?

By Nicholas Kristof

Oren Cass discusses the ideological battle within the Republican Party — and just how powerful the populist faction is.

By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’

Democrats need their own Project 2025 — fast

By Pamela Paul

As long as Democrats see nothing of him but his lies and outrages, they’ll miss what makes him strong.

By Bret Stephens

History says that deflation is terrible for the economy.

By Paul Krugman

The rise of post-ideological terror.

By Michelle Goldberg

Expanding the frontiers of political cronyism.

By Paul Krugman

He is a figure touched by the gods of fortune in a way that transcends the normal rules of politics.

By Ross Douthat

What choosing the Ohio senator as running mate tells us about Trump.

By Ross Douthat, David French, Michelle Goldberg and Bret Stephens

The former president’s nomination speech may well be the most-watched address in a generation.

By Frank Bruni, Michelle Cottle, David French and Patrick Healy

As we consider who might replace Biden on the ticket, we seem finally to have evolved when it comes to evaluating the female contenders.

By Nicholas Kristof

The president should be poked — out of the race.

By Maureen Dowd

They should heed the law of unintended consequences.

By Bret Stephens

He is closer than ever to a second term, but what that would bring remains unclear.

By Ross Douthat

They haven’t acted like it.

By Ross Douthat

The chief justice and his allies have rewritten the Constitution to make it say what they want it to say.

By Jamelle Bouie

With children’s health and well-being at stake, effective, evidence-based and compassionate health care must be accepted.

By Pamela Paul

What the pressure campaign against Biden says about party weakness.

By Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat and Lydia Polgreen

Forcing the president out of the race would be an invalidation of the democratic process.

By Charles M. Blow

The problem with identity politics becoming our moral system is that it undermines democracy.

By David Brooks

Self-proclaimed patriots keep trash-talking their own country.

By Paul Krugman

Healthy institutions try to control for the frailties of human nature.

By David French

He’s … a bit calmer. Which freaks me out.

By Frank Bruni

Biden’s nomination crisis is far from over.

By Ezra Klein

Election results in Britain and France show that voters can get behind liberal candidates as long as they’re fresh faces.

By Nicholas Kristof

In the case of the former president, it is far more dangerous to underestimate than to overestimate his capacity to wreak havoc.

By Thomas B. Edsall

Both men running for president are unfit for the job. One is a danger to our country.

By Thomas L. Friedman

The president is starting to act like the predecessor he fought against.

By Bret Stephens

What facts do different stories explain?

By Paul Krugman

It is no accident that he is talking about immigrants’ “poisoning the blood of our country.”

By Jamelle Bouie

The Times Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie walks through the risks of a brokered convention.

By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’

Biden has done a great job. Now he can serve America by stepping aside.

By Paul Krugman

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