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Nov 07, 2026
If Democrats rise to this moment, they can turn a single night's victory into a new American promise.
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Nov 07, 2026
Michelle Goldberg reported on the Democrats' most exciting campaigns. Here's what she saw.
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Nov 07, 2026
Technology is increasingly a moral issue — and a bipartisan one.
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Nov 07, 2026
Five signals from the Democrats' extraordinary string of victories.
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Nov 07, 2026
Senator-elect James Talarico had a clear vision of what Texans were looking for. Ezra Klein and Michelle Goldberg discuss his successful Senate campaign on "The Ezra Klein Show."
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Nov 07, 2026
Michelle Goldberg reported on the Democrats' most exciting campaigns. Here's what she saw.
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Nov 07, 2026
After the 2024 election, JD Vance suggested that Senator Jon Ossoff would have to cozy up to President Trump to win a Senate seat. On "The Ezra Klein Show," Michelle Goldberg and Ezra Klein discuss what actually happened — and how Ossoff channelled a "popular revulsion."
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Nov 07, 2026
A Norma Desmond crash-out to end all crash-outs.
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Nov 07, 2026
A Gazan journalist watches the controversial documentary from inside the war zone the film is about.
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Nov 07, 2026
Readers discuss a guest essay by a child psychiatrist.
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Nov 06, 2026
Insult politics are out. Ken Paxton's attacks on James Talarico were "digging his political grave," the columnist David French argues. In a recent live episode of "The Opinions," French describes how some conservative evangelicals in Texas privately told him they planned to vote for Talarico — and why Republican attacks weren't resonating with voters.
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Nov 06, 2026
Live from Brooklyn, Michelle Cottle, Jamelle Bouie and David French weigh in on the "blue tsunami."
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Nov 06, 2026
Live from Brooklyn, Michelle Cottle, Jamelle Bouie and David French weigh in on the "blue tsunami."
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Nov 06, 2026
Many in Washington believe Pete Hegseth's future leading the Defense Department can be counted in days.
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Nov 06, 2026
Elon Musk spent nearly half a billion dollars backing Republican candidates in the midterm elections. A wave of Democratic wins exposed the limits of big money's influence, argues the economist Natasha Sarin on "The Opinions." But the policy expert Elizabeth Wilkins counters that this is a moment to strengthen democratic institutions against big money.
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Nov 06, 2026
Readers discuss the blue wave midterm elections, looking back and ahead. Also: Applying to New York City high schools.
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Nov 06, 2026
I have learned over a lifetime why three Black girls in 1963 could not begin to integrate the schools.
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Nov 06, 2026
Democrats have a chance to rewrite the rules of the economy. Here's how.
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Nov 06, 2026
There's a big difference between a midterm election and a presidential election.
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Nov 06, 2026
He's the country's top Democrat now. He needs to act like it.
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Nov 06, 2026
He will need to sell voters on a tarnished Trump brand.
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Nov 06, 2026
There's a big difference between a midterm election and a presidential election.
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Nov 06, 2026
"When he feels cornered, when he feels attacked, he fights back," the columnist Carlos Lozada says of Donald Trump, who is now entering the lame-duck phase of his presidency. Columnists from across Times Opinion share their predictions for what the final two years of Trump's term might look like — and they're not pretty.
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Nov 06, 2026
Any hangover from an A.I. stock implosion will be worse than the dot-com bust.
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Nov 06, 2026
The country needs a careful, restrained government — and always has.
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Nov 06, 2026
Democrats have a chance to rewrite the rules of the economy. Here's how.
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Nov 05, 2026
Live from the Brooklyn Public Library, Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Cottle and David French discuss the midterm election results and look ahead to 2028.
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Nov 05, 2026
According to the best data we have, teen mental health is improving.
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Nov 05, 2026
The G.O.P. cannot allow itself to be defined by its radicals.
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Nov 05, 2026
On "The Ezra Klein Show," Ezra Klein argues that "the big tent is real" and breaks down Democratic showings in North Carolina, Georgia, Kansas and Mississippi.
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Nov 05, 2026
The 45-year-old City Council member defeated the incumbent mayor, Karen Bass, 73, a sweeping success for a new generation of far-left leaders.
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Nov 05, 2026
Readers respond to articles about Vice President JD Vance. Also: Votes not for sale; the Iran war; air pollution and cancer; benefits of exercise.
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Nov 05, 2026
The question is not whether we choose to plug in but rather how intentional we are about unplugging.
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Nov 05, 2026
"There's no Trumpism. There was only ever Trump." Ezra Klein and his editor, Aaron Retica, discuss the end of the Trump era on "The Ezra Klein Show."
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Nov 05, 2026
They are the indispensable swing bloc, and their votes will have to be won every cycle.
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Nov 05, 2026
The midterms vote was an epic rebuke of Silicon Valley.
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Nov 05, 2026
What an amazing election night.
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Nov 05, 2026
The Ozymandias election.
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Nov 05, 2026
What an amazing election night.
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Nov 05, 2026
The vote was an epic rebuke of Silicon Valley.
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Nov 05, 2026
They are the indispensable swing bloc, and their votes will have to be won every cycle.
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Nov 04, 2026
Ezra Klein and Aaron Retica react to the Democratic Party's major midterm victory.
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Nov 04, 2026
Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression united Democrats for election after election. The Opinion contributing writer E.J. Dionne Jr. argues Trump could become a Hoover-like figure in the years ahead. "When people look back on this," he says, "they're going to ask, ‘What were we doing as a country in this period?'"
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Nov 04, 2026
Americans are ready for a different kind of politics, and that showed up in the election results, the Opinion contributing writer E.J. Dionne Jr. argues. "People are tired of the division. They're tired of wasting time. They're tired of stupidity and ballrooms and wars," he says.
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Nov 04, 2026
And what the party should do with its new majority in the House and Senate.
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Nov 04, 2026
And what the party should do with its new majority in the House and Senate.
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Nov 04, 2026
The president loves combat and chaos. He's about to get more of it.
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Nov 04, 2026
A.I. agents can make things easier. That's not always a good thing.
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Nov 04, 2026
From joy to concern, readers react to the Democrats' "shellacking" of the Republicans in the midterm elections.
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Nov 04, 2026
Every Senate win holds important lessons for Democrats.
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Nov 04, 2026
Breathe easy. For a minute.
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Nov 04, 2026
And what the party should do with its new majority in the House and Senate.
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Nov 04, 2026
There was nothing inevitable about this comeuppance.
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Nov 04, 2026
Americans showed that the power to choose their leaders belongs to them. Now they must remain vigilant until officials certify every race and the winners take office.
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Nov 04, 2026
What mattered most in these midterms?
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Nov 04, 2026
There was nothing inevitable about this comeuppance.
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Nov 04, 2026
"People hate the way that Trump is running this country," the columnist Michelle Goldberg argues. Her fellow columnists and the American electorate agree. Democrats had a great night, but what now? Eight Opinion columnists offer their views on what Democrats need to do next, and what Trump's final two years in office might hold.
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Nov 04, 2026
Every Senate win holds important lessons for Democrats.
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Nov 04, 2026
Abdul El-Sayed's victory answers several questions.
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Nov 04, 2026
One of the greatest survivors in U.S. politics finally falls.
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Nov 04, 2026
For Republicans, Texas has long been a dependable political anchor. Now, it's finally blue.
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Nov 04, 2026
One of the greatest survivors in U.S. politics finally falls.
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Nov 04, 2026
Michelle Cottle and David French wonder if there's a paradigm shift in American politics.
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Nov 04, 2026
For Republicans, Texas has long been a dependable political anchor. Its loss was a profound psychological blow.
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Nov 04, 2026
Americans showed that the power to choose their leaders belongs to them. Now they must remain vigilant until officials certify every race and the winners take office.
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Nov 04, 2026
Just months after his death, Mr. Grah Senate seat is gone and his Ukraine policy is diminished.
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Nov 03, 2026
If Democrats want to take back the White House, they should follow the Ohio senator-elect's playbook of focusing on economic issues while sidestepping cultural ones.
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Nov 03, 2026
What's stunning about his win is that it wasn't a surprise by Election Day.
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Nov 03, 2026
Michelle Goldberg and Matthew Yglesias talk about James Talarico, populism and taxes.
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Nov 03, 2026
Fighting corruption, the theme in his race, could work for Democrats in 2028.
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Nov 03, 2026
As much as any midterm race, the senator-elect affirmed the power of the right person waging the right campaign
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Nov 03, 2026
Fighting corruption, the theme in his race, could work for Democrats in 2028.
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Nov 03, 2026
Times Opinion writers break down the results from across the country and what they will mean for American politics in the years ahead.
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Nov 03, 2026
What does an opinion look like?
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Nov 03, 2026
An already dangerously erratic president is veering deeper and deeper into what amounts to hallucination.
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Nov 03, 2026
Readers respond to a news article, "In Texas, Minor Misdeeds Can Get a Young Student Arrested." Also: The elusive truth.
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Nov 03, 2026
The political winds are blowing in Democrats' direction. The question is: How strong are they?
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Nov 03, 2026
Electing Abdul El-Sayed would contribute to the normalization of the antisemitism that his candidacy has helped to produce.
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Nov 03, 2026
The political winds are blowing in Democrats' direction. The question is: How strong are they?
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Nov 03, 2026
There's something fundamental at stake in the midterms this year, beyond policy differences.
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Nov 03, 2026
Reforms that save 1 percent or 2 percent of health care costs quickly add up.
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Nov 03, 2026
Hey, no one said having all this freedom was going to be easy. Or survivable.
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Nov 03, 2026
The Trump administration has profoundly misread Latin America's political winds.
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Nov 02, 2026
China may see Trump's decision to hold up arms sales to Taiwan as a lasting concession, raising the stakes in a future confrontation over the island.
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Nov 02, 2026
History doesn't give us second chances.
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Nov 02, 2026
History doesn't give us second chances.
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Nov 02, 2026
Of all the Democratic appointees, if not all nine justices, Justice Kagan has a reputation as the most restrained and institutionalist. Until now.
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Nov 02, 2026
Readers offer some final thoughts before Election Day. Also: Hard times, or not; Halloween candy bliss.
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Nov 02, 2026
Of all the Democratic appointees, if not all nine justices, Justice Kagan has a reputation as the most restrained and institutionalist. Until now.
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Nov 02, 2026
Will Americans decide this week that character does, after all, matter?
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Nov 02, 2026
China and the U.S. need mutually assured collaboration to quash the threat of A.I.-empowered bad actors, even while their economic differences sharpen.
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Nov 02, 2026
Seldom have political food fights been this ridiculous.
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Nov 02, 2026
$20 million from the Social Security Administration. $8 billion from the Department of Agriculture. Have you received a check from the Trump administration? According to the Opinion contributor Cristian Farias, an "alphabet soup of agencies" have been deputized by President Trump to bribe his way through the midterms and, he argues, to "interfere with the democratic process."
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Nov 02, 2026
Medicine has developed many tools for suppressing suffering, but fewer for cultivating meaning or peace.
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Nov 02, 2026
Will Americans decide this week that character does, after all, matter?
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Nov 02, 2026
What does an opinion look like?
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Nov 02, 2026
China and the U.S. need mutually assured collaboration to quash the threat of A.I.-empowered bad actors, even while their economic differences sharpen.
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Nov 01, 2026
The history of triumphal arches is long and messy. Where does Donald Trump's proposed edifice fit in?
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Nov 01, 2026
The history of triumphal arches is long and messy. Where does Donald Trump's proposed edifice fit in?
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Nov 01, 2026
Readers discuss the city's policies and offer their own suggestions. Also: An A.I. monster?
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