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NYT > Opinion
May 19, 2025

Trump Is Turning a Good Idea Into an Authoritarian Weapon
The Trump administration's relocation of federal offices outside of Washington corrupts what could be a valuable reform.

NYT > Opinion
May 19, 2025

In Illness, Biden Deserves Grace
Readers respond to former President Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis. Also: A.I. governance; a reality show contest for citizenship?

NYT > Opinion
May 19, 2025

America's Debt Is Officially Tarnished. Here's What Must Happen Next.
Moody's announcement last week means that not one of the firms that rate America's debt still consider it pristine.

NYT > Opinion
May 19, 2025

The Delusion of Porn's Harmlessness
Despite significant evidence that a deluge of pornography has a negative impact on modern society, there is a curious refusal to publicly admit disapproval of it.

NYT > Opinion
May 19, 2025

My First Thought When I Heard Joe Biden's News
What Joe Biden understands about America's place in the world, even now.

NYT > Opinion
May 19, 2025

The Moody's Downgrade Is an Alarm. Washington Better Pay Attention.
Moody's announcement last week means that not one of the firms that rate America's debt still consider it pristine.

NYT > Opinion
May 19, 2025

The Enduring Fantasy of Porn's Harmlessness
Despite significant evidence that a deluge of pornography has a negative impact on modern society, there is a curious refusal to publicly admit disapproval of it.

NYT > Opinion
May 19, 2025

Washington Needs This Medicine. Trump's Formula Is Poison.
The Trump administration's relocation of federal offices outside of Washington corrupts what could be a valuable reform.

NYT > Opinion
May 19, 2025

13 Ways to Save Health and Science in America
Expert-backed ideas for continued progress.

NYT > Opinion
May 19, 2025

LinkedIn Executive: A.I. Is Coming for Entry-Level Jobs
A.I. is threatening entry-level jobs.

NYT > Opinion
May 19, 2025

Trump Has His Law Firms Right Where He Wants Them
Even more than free legal help, what the president gets from the firms is the joy of publicly dominating and demeaning his adversaries.

NYT > Opinion
May 19, 2025

In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.
Trump's fixation on tariffs while he undermines America's competitive strengths is hastening the onset of the "Chinese Century."

NYT > Opinion
May 18, 2025

Hollywood Couldn't Imagine a Star Like This One
Before there was D.E.I., there was Desi Arnaz, rewriting the rules to become Hollywood's unlikeliest mogul. His success still holds valuable lessons.

NYT > Opinion
May 18, 2025

Country Music Is Entirely at War With Itself
American pop culture typically goes country when the White House goes Republican.

NYT > Opinion
May 18, 2025

Josh Hawley's Surprising Plea for Medicaid
Readers respond to the Missouri senator's argument for protecting Medicaid from cuts.

NYT > Opinion
May 18, 2025

Europe Built Trains. America Built Highways and Regret.
As Europe embraces the night train, the United States seems to be sleepwalking into a transport dead end.

NYT > Opinion
May 18, 2025

What Desi Arnaz Could Teach Hollywood Today
Before there was D.E.I., there was Desi Arnaz, rewriting the rules to become Hollywood's unlikeliest mogul. His success still holds valuable lessons.

NYT > Opinion
May 18, 2025

Trump Is Destroying a Core American Value. The World Will Notice.
His overhaul of the State Department's human rights bureau will make the United States weaker.

NYT > Opinion
May 18, 2025

The Country's Gone Country. What Gives?
American pop culture typically goes country when the White House goes Republican.

NYT > Opinion
May 18, 2025

How I Got Duped by Designer Dupes
The overwhelming deluge of bag content made me desperate for the luxury my lackluster bank balance would never permit.

NYT > Opinion
May 18, 2025

Trump Isn't the First Politician to Sell the Office
As Europe embraces the night train, the United States seems to be sleepwalking into a transport dead end.

NYT > Opinion
May 18, 2025

Trump Is Far From the First Corrupt U.S. Politician
American politicians have been for sale for far longer than Donald Trump has been around and in far more ways than he and his family have so far pioneered.

NYT > Opinion
May 17, 2025

For One Hilarious, Terrifying Day, Elon Musk's Chatbot Lost Its Mind
Just don't ask it about "white genocide."

NYT > Opinion
May 17, 2025

Republican Hypocrisy Reaches Into the Countryside
You might assume that Trump would prioritize the interests of rural voters.

NYT > Opinion
May 17, 2025

Trump Only Sees the World Through Deals
It's the quest for the handshake that guides Trumpian foreign policy on almost every front.

NYT > Opinion
May 17, 2025

New Jersey Can Show How to Take On Public Sector Strikes
Don't panic. Show resilience.

NYT > Opinion
May 17, 2025

The Day Grok Lost Its Mind
Just don't ask it about "white genocide."

NYT > Opinion
May 17, 2025

The Tragedy of Joe Biden
Even Shakespeare might not have dreamed up this family.

NYT > Opinion
May 17, 2025

Gen Z: How Will You Remake the American Dream?
We want to hear from readers ages 18-30 about their aspirations for the future.

NYT > Opinion
May 17, 2025

The Future of Black History Lives on Donald Trump's Front Lawn
A journey to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture took me places I will not soon forget.

NYT > Opinion
May 17, 2025

In Yemen, $7 Billion in Useless Bombing
The United States supposedly can't afford $1 a day to save starving children, but Biden and Trump squandered $7 billion bombing Yemenis.

NYT > Opinion
May 17, 2025

Why We're Rooting for Germany's Conservative Chancellor
Friedrich Merz and Germany's political establishment must unite the center to ward off the far right.

NYT > Opinion
May 17, 2025

The Only Trump Doctrine Is Dealmaking
It's the quest for the handshake that guides Trumpian foreign policy on almost every front.

NYT > Opinion
May 17, 2025

The Risks and Rewards of Antidepressants
Readers respond to a psychiatrist's essay arguing for more research on the effects of S.S.R.I.s like Prozac and other drugs.

NYT > Opinion
May 16, 2025

Another Trump Plan for Peace Falls Apart
Trump's insistence on a cease-fire without addressing what the warring sides really want at this stage has not worked.

NYT > Opinion
May 16, 2025

The Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks That Weren't
Trump's insistence on a cease-fire without addressing what the warring sides really want at this stage has not worked.

NYT > Opinion
May 16, 2025

Is Trump Losing? A Debate.
The journalists Zack Beauchamp and Andrew Marantz discuss what kind of autocratic timeline America is on right now.

NYT > Opinion
May 16, 2025

How Cuts to Medicaid Would Imperil Rural Hospitals
Responses to a guest essay about the effects of Medicaid cuts. Also: A third presidential term; a display of faith; loud music in public.

NYT > Opinion
May 16, 2025

‘Trump Can't Escape Political Gravity': 3 Writers on Trump's Polling
What we can learn from polls about the president's action-filled second term so far and how Democrats are looking.

NYT > Opinion
May 16, 2025

The American Legal System May Never Recover From This
The debate over nationwide injunctions.

NYT > Opinion
May 16, 2025

How the Democratic Party Closed Its Eyes to Biden's Decline
More than lying to the public, too many Democrats were lying to themselves.

NYT > Opinion
May 16, 2025

Is Trump Losing? A Debate
The journalists Zack Beauchamp and Andrew Marantz discuss what kind of autocratic timeline America is on right now.

NYT > Opinion
May 16, 2025

Medicaid Work Requirements Are Cruel and Pointless
Studies show that when Medicaid work requirements were tried, they failed to increase employment.

NYT > Opinion
May 16, 2025

‘This Is Less Like Governing and More Like a Really Nauseating Amusement Park Ride': 3 Writers on Trump 2.0
What we can learn from polls about the president's action-filled second term so far and how Democrats are looking.

NYT > Opinion
May 16, 2025

Selling Off Our Public Lands Is a Bad Idea
Selling off public lands threatens more than a century of progress for one of America's most vital and popular shared experiments.

NYT > Opinion
May 16, 2025

Romania Is About to Experience Disaster
The country's disastrous slide to the far right had been coming.

NYT > Opinion
May 16, 2025

Romania Is Falling Into the Abyss
Romania's disastrous slide to the far right had been coming.

NYT > Opinion
May 15, 2025

Nasty MAGA Infighting Means Trouble for Trump
Live by the Loomer, die by the Loomer.

NYT > Opinion
May 15, 2025

‘We Are the Most Rejected Generation'
There's a cost to making it so hard to be a young person right now.

NYT > Opinion
May 15, 2025

The Justices Can't Avoid Trump's Blow Against the Constitution
Procedure was supposed to be beside the point at Thursday's arguments. But the unconstitutionality and impracticality of Trump's order was inescapable.

NYT > Opinion
May 15, 2025

Ancient Romans, Pagans … and Trump?
Readers respond to a column by David Brooks. Also: President Trump's contempt for ethical boundaries.

NYT > Opinion
May 15, 2025

An Interview With the Herald of the Apocalypse
Losing your job may be the best-case scenario.

NYT > Opinion
May 15, 2025

Live by the Loomer, Die by the Loomer
Nasty MAGA infighting means trouble for Trump.

NYT > Opinion
May 15, 2025

The Morality Tale of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti
His removal from baseball's ineligible list will allow him to enter the Hall of Fame.

NYT > Opinion
May 15, 2025

WeightWatchers Got One Thing Very Right
Will the cure for the obesity epidemic fuel the loneliness epidemic?

NYT > Opinion
May 15, 2025

The Forecast for 2027? Total A.I. Domination.
Losing your job may be the best-case scenario.

NYT > Opinion
May 15, 2025

Two Opinion Columnists on Trump's Era of International Bullying
Lydia Polgreen and Nicholas Kristof discuss why other nations are picking up what the president is punching down.

NYT > Opinion
May 15, 2025

Trump's Law Firm Crackdowns Aren't Just About Revenge. They're About Something Darker.
It looks like retribution. It's actually worse.

NYT > Opinion
May 15, 2025

What's Really at Stake in the U.S. Supreme Court Case on Birthright Citizenship
The focus on a specific legal question has overshadowed the more crucial issues at stake.

NYT > Opinion
May 15, 2025

Nuclear War Avoided, Again. But Next Time?
The fast-moving conflict between India and Pakistan last week demonstrated the inherent dangers of the modern nuclear age.

NYT > Opinion
May 14, 2025

What Makes Right-Wing Art Effective
Why politics don't necessarily ruin storytelling.

NYT > Opinion
May 14, 2025

A.I. Will Destroy Critical Thinking in K-12
The secretary of education said it would be a "wonderful thing." Lots of parents disagree.

NYT > Opinion
May 14, 2025

Bill Gates is Winding Down His Charity. And He's Not Alone.
We've come to see developmental aid as a basic fact of the world. But now the money is drying up.

NYT > Opinion
May 14, 2025

It's Time for a Course on the Constitution
Readers reflect on the Constitution and the state of American democracy. Also: The Catholic Church sex abuse crisis; Elon Musk's minions.

NYT > Opinion
May 14, 2025

We Study Fascism, and We're Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.

NYT > Opinion
May 14, 2025

A.I. Starting in Pre-K Would Be an ‘Unmitigated Disaster'
The secretary of education said it would be a "wonderful thing." Lots of parents disagree.

NYT > Opinion
May 14, 2025

The Cannes Red Carpet Shouldn't Be So Uptight
When the Cannes Film Festival is banning nudity and big dresses from the red carpet, what is a fashion fan, body-proud star or stylist to do?

NYT > Opinion
May 14, 2025

We Study Fascism at Yale. We're Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.

NYT > Opinion
May 14, 2025

Trump Needs to Refuse a Qatari Jet and Crypto Profits
Sure, everyone likes gifts. But presidents have to refuse them most of the time.

NYT > Opinion
May 14, 2025

Four Legal Immigrants Offer a Warning for America
Trump is transforming — and destroying — something core to this country's identity.

NYT > Opinion
May 14, 2025

Four Trump Officials: If You Want Welfare and Can Work, You Must
As leaders of the agencies that oversee the largest welfare programs in the nation, we fear that welfare has become a trap of dependency.

NYT > Opinion
May 14, 2025

They Were Waiting for Trump All Along
The conservative movement has always had a soft spot for despots of various stripes.

NYT > Opinion
May 14, 2025

New York to Andrew Cuomo: Are You My Daddy?
New Yorkers have a long history of turning to tough, even ruthless leaders when they fear their city is lurching out of control. But is Cuomo really what we want?

NYT > Opinion
May 14, 2025

New York to Andrew Cuomo: Will You Be My Daddy?
New Yorkers have a long history of turning to tough, even ruthless leaders when they fear their city is lurching out of control. But is Cuomo really what we want?

NYT > Opinion
May 14, 2025

We Study Fascism. And We're Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.

NYT > Opinion
May 13, 2025

A.G. Sulzberger: A Free People Need a Free Press
The anti-press playbook is being used in this country — and it could not come at a more difficult time for the American press.

NYT > Opinion
May 13, 2025

The Virtues of Ideological Art
Why politics doesn't necessarily ruin storytelling.

NYT > Opinion
May 13, 2025

Three Child-Free Women Swap Mothers for a Day
In a unique twist, three women swap mothers for a candid conversation about their choice to be child-free in "M/other."

NYT > Opinion
May 13, 2025

This Is Why Trump Is Always Talking About Corruption
Shamelessness is Trump's superpower.

NYT > Opinion
May 13, 2025

M/other
In a unique twist, three women swap mothers for a candid conversation about their choice to be child-free.

NYT > Opinion
May 13, 2025

What Has Trump Done to West Point?
Responses to a guest essay about the Trump administration's assault on academic freedom at the U.S. Military Academy. Also: The Qatari gift of a plane.

NYT > Opinion
May 13, 2025

Shamelessness Is Trump's Superpower
Donald Trump is well on his way to becoming one of the most corrupt presidents in the history of the United States.

NYT > Opinion
May 13, 2025

‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education'
Students are already using A.I. to learn and write. The education policy expert Rebecca Winthrop explores the big questions emerging for educators and parents.

NYT > Opinion
May 13, 2025

George Saunders on the Firing of Dr. Carla Hayden
When a ship is sinking, there's value in knowing how fast, and calling it out. When a country is self-sabotaging, ditto.

NYT > Opinion
May 13, 2025

I'm a Russian Scientist in ICE Detention
I was detained at Logan airport after I did not complete a customs declaration for frog embryos.

NYT > Opinion
May 13, 2025

I Planned a Lecture About Freedom. Then Trump's D.E.I. Police Intervened.
The Trump Administration's decision to stop funding for a Danish lecture series showed its determination to extend its control to the smallest of ventures.

NYT > Opinion
May 13, 2025

This Is Not the Saudi Arabia Trump Visited Before
America's national security could benefit from a successful Trump visit to Saudi Arabia — and suffer from a bad one.

NYT > Opinion
May 13, 2025

The U.S. Army Is Finally Pivoting Toward Future Threats
A new doctrine will transform the kinds of weapons America uses, how they are purchased and how fast they get into the hands of soldiers.

NYT > Opinion
May 12, 2025

Karma Comes for Kennedy
Casey Means's nomination to be surgeon general has led to a rift in MAHA.

NYT > Opinion
May 12, 2025

What Kennedy Gets Right About the Chemicals in Our Food
A handshake deal with the food industry will never be enough.

NYT > Opinion
May 12, 2025

What Stalks Wolves Across Europe
The Europe that permitted wolves to thrive is fracturing.

NYT > Opinion
May 12, 2025

Seeking to Stop a Slide Into Autocracy
Readers respond to a guest essay that warned of authoritarianism in America. Also: Shame on the lawyers; euphoria over Pope Leo XIV.

NYT > Opinion
May 12, 2025

Josh Hawley: Don't Cut Medicaid
Republicans should embrace their working class voters.

NYT > Opinion
May 12, 2025

Are Trump's Tariffs Trying to Solve a Problem That Doesn't Exist?
A Harvard economist argues that a decline in manufacturing jobs is not what ails the United States.

NYT > Opinion
May 12, 2025

Should Reporters Identify Judges by the President Who Nominated Them?
Jurists have long surprised expectations based on party, and it's reassuring to see that continue today.

NYT > Opinion
May 12, 2025

‘Doubt Has Crept In': Three European Diplomats on Trusting America
Three European former diplomats talk about what America meant to them and how that's changed.

NYT > Opinion
May 12, 2025

When Politics, Borders and Wolves Collide
The Europe that permitted wolves to thrive is fracturing.

NYT > Opinion
May 12, 2025

Kennedy Is Right About the Chemicals in Our Food
A handshake deal with the food industry will never be enough.

NYT > Opinion
May 12, 2025

Pope Leo XIV May Be a Stern Teacher for American Catholics
Political partisanship is likely to become an even more untenable position for American Catholics than it already is.

NYT > Opinion
May 12, 2025

Serbia Is Showing America What's Possible
Serbian protesters are bravely combating a powerful autocratic government.

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