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NYT > Opinion
Dec 22, 2025

Susie Wiles and the Intoxication of Power
There are no wallflowers in Trump's White House.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 22, 2025

How We Can Reclaim the ‘Best Thing About America'
The columnist Michelle Goldberg believes reclaiming the narrative on immigration should be America's next story.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 22, 2025

Vaccines, Measles and Kennedy: Three Experts on the Future of Health in America
Making sense of a year of change.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 22, 2025

What Happened When I Asked ChatGPT to Solve an 800-Year-Old Italian Mystery
For centuries, nobody has known who built the Florence Baptistery. Could A.I. crack the mystery?

NYT > Opinion
Dec 22, 2025

Millennials Are Officially Old Now
What happens when the me, me, me generation enters its old era?

NYT > Opinion
Dec 22, 2025

The U.S. Must End China's Rare Earth Dominance
The world's democracies cannot depend on the most powerful authoritarian state — and an increasingly aggressive one — for critical minerals.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 22, 2025

France Needs a New France
The time has come for a Sixth Republic.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 21, 2025

Why Is Shopping No Longer Fun?
Shopping should be about lust. Instead, it's become a slog.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 21, 2025

How to Reduce Surging Health Care Costs
Readers suggest ways to bring medical costs under control for average Americans. Also: Australia sets an example for the U.S. on gun laws.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 21, 2025

After Mamdani's Win, the D.S.A. Has a High-Pressure Opportunity
The D.S.A. is still small. But as economic inequality keeps burning, Democratic Socialists are attracting intense interest and getting elected to office.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 21, 2025

The Trump Vibe Shift Is Dead
What will come in its wake?

NYT > Opinion
Dec 21, 2025

Christianity Is a Dangerous Faith
Living in the upside-down kingdom of God.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 21, 2025

My Oldest Old Friend
She was a great-grandmother, and I was a millennial. We could have talked forever.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 21, 2025

A Lifeline for New York's Working Families
Children's Aid provides free after-school programs for low-income New Yorkers that students love and parents see as a solution.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 20, 2025

Donald Trump Is Very Unhappy With You
It's all over but the shouting.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 20, 2025

The White House Is Just ‘Trying to Keep Grandpa Busy'
Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Cottle and David French convene to discuss the year that was.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 20, 2025

Conservative Leaders Can't Ignore Candace Owens
The right mastered influencer politics. Now they're tearing the movement apart.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 20, 2025

Marco Rubio Is Winning the Trump Era
The secretary of state has somehow avoided becoming either a media fixation or a major player in the right's unfolding psychodrama.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 20, 2025

Trump's Address Was a ‘Lame-Duck Speech'
Jamelle Bouie argues that the administration already looks burned out — with three more years to go.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 20, 2025

Why I Gave Up Holiday Hosting
I spent years dreaming of giving up, but figuring out how, when the role of host had calcified around me like plaster, seemed impossible.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 20, 2025

Who Is Actually Running America?
On "The Opinions" podcast, Jamelle Bouie argues we're observing a presidency run by people pursuing "their own narrow ideological political goals using the president's authority."

NYT > Opinion
Dec 20, 2025

The A.I. Models Are Competing for Your Affection
Major A.I. companies are competing to give their models the most appealing personality.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 20, 2025

This Nonprofit Is Expanding Access to Tech Careers
Per Scholas has helped over 30,000 people, about half of whom never graduated from a four-year college, break into careers in tech.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 20, 2025

What Would Surprise Jesus About Christmas 2025?
An eminent New Testament scholar recounts what he says was the message of Jesus that transformed the West.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 20, 2025

Was 2025 the End of ‘Teflon Trump'?
Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Cottle and David French convene to discuss the year that was.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 19, 2025

Groyperism Isn't Conservatism. It's Anti-Americanism.
If the post-Trump G.O.P. makes the same mistake the Democrats did with their identitarian fringe, Republicans will meet a similar fate.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 19, 2025

Weighing Politics and Morality in the Israel Debate
Readers respond to an essay criticizing U.S. Democrats' failure to resolve the conflict in Gaza. Also: Trump's Kennedy Center rebrand; blaming immigrants after the Brown shooting.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 19, 2025

College Students Need Tech-Free Spaces
Adults need to set up rules for students so that it's not on them to self-regulate when it comes to going tech-free.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 19, 2025

Trump's New Marijuana Policy Offers an Opportunity
Marijuana has been tied to psychosis and other health problems. I still think it's safer than alcohol.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 19, 2025

Yes, Nancy Pelosi Says, the Country Is Ready for a Woman to Be President
The speaker emerita is disappointed and a little surprised that the presidential glass ceiling remains intact, but confident that it will change.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 19, 2025

College Is Still Worthwhile. This Organization Proves It.
Monica-Grace Mukendi's career demonstrates the lasting impact of OneGoal, a nonprofit that helps low-income students attend college.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 19, 2025

Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me
There's no getting around this if we want to avoid the deficit cliff ahead.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 19, 2025

We Owe It to College Students to Create Tech-Free Spaces
Adults need to set up rules for students so that it's not on them to self-regulate when it comes to going tech-free.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 19, 2025

Why Tolkien's ‘The Lord of the Rings' Endures
How providence and loss helped shape "The Lord of the Rings."

NYT > Opinion
Dec 19, 2025

How Did a City of 10 Million People Nearly Run Out of Water?
Restricting Tehran's growth and water use — however politically difficult — would be more prudent than trying to engineer ever more elaborate workarounds.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 18, 2025

Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry Are Worth Rooting For
As a politician, Justin Trudeau was an excellent celebrity. And the rest of the world could learn a useful lesson from how he wielded his star power.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 18, 2025

We're in the Age of American Pessimism
America is in its pessimism era and Trump is playing on it, argues the columnist David Brooks in this episode of "The Conversation."

NYT > Opinion
Dec 18, 2025

Is Trump Finished?
"A lot of people are seeing some things that are really bad for Donald Trump," David Brooks says in this episode of "The Conversation."

NYT > Opinion
Dec 18, 2025

The Trump Economy and America's Bad Mood
Trump is giving himself an A-plus-plus-plus, but the rest of America is anxious.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 18, 2025

The Righteousness of Ahmed el Ahmed
Bravery and cowardice are both exemplary teachers.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 18, 2025

A Lesson From the Abrego Garcia Saga
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's release from immigration detention last week offers a useful model for how Democrats can successfully challenge the Trump administration, the Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie argues.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 18, 2025

Trump's Drone Strikes Are Wrong. Obama's Were, Too
Readers respond to a guest essay on why the recent boat strikes by the Trump administration are unjustified.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 18, 2025

The Righteousness of Ahmed el Amhed
Bravery and cowardice are both exemplary teachers.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 18, 2025

What Courage Does for Us
Bravery and cowardice are both exemplary teachers.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 18, 2025

What Happens When You Send a Girl to School
Joyce Arthur says she is a living testimony to the benefit of investing in African girls' education.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 18, 2025

Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Do. Why Don't Democrats?
Liberals should reconcile with America's oil and gas industry.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 18, 2025

Threats to Judges Could Lead to a Judicial System Crisis
The rise in judicial threats is being fueled by the political rhetoric of the Trump administration, a judge argues.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 18, 2025

David Brooks, E.J. Dionne and Robert Siegel Take Stock of 2025
Trump is giving himself an A-plus-plus-plus, but the rest of America is anxious.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 18, 2025

When Judges Are Attacked, You Suffer
The rise in judicial threats is being fueled by the political rhetoric of the Trump administration, argues the judge Esther Salas.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 18, 2025

Pinochet Is Smiling in His Grave
Chile's new leader wants to rewrite its past and recast its future.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 17, 2025

Let's Go Beyond Trump's Vile Words About Rob Reiner
We must do far more to address the national crisis of addiction that leaves so many households in despair as well as danger.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 17, 2025

Trump Is Helping China Realize Its Dream of A.I. Dominance
National security shouldn't ever have a price.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 17, 2025

Anti-Vaccine Influencers Have Shown Me the Limits of Resistance
I was wrong about how to push back.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 17, 2025

When Patients Lose Faith in Medicine
Readers react to Daniela Lamas's essay on the moral dilemma posed by a patient who refused her advice, then died. Also: Managing methane on farms.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 17, 2025

Anti-Vaccine Influencers Are Only Getting Stronger
I was wrong about how to push back.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 17, 2025

The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing
Why are the Supreme Court and Congress conspiring to give him more power?

NYT > Opinion
Dec 17, 2025

Rob Reiner Thought of Himself as Norman Lear's Son
In life and art, he was the successor to Norman Lear.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 17, 2025

The Movie I Was Afraid to See
It all comes down to coordination.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 17, 2025

Why I Resisted Seeing ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab'
It all comes down to coordination.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 17, 2025

A Vibrant Community for New York's Seniors
For people like Ms. Otts, an online community can be lifesaving.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 17, 2025

What Is an American?
If the post-Trump G.O.P. makes the same mistake the Democrats did with their identitarian fringe, Republicans will meet a similar fate.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 17, 2025

Chile's Election Is More Than Just a Swerve to the Right
Chile's new leader wants to rewrite its past and recast its future.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 17, 2025

Chile Is Swerving to the Right — and Into the Past
Chile's new leader wants to rewrite its past and recast its future.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

Does Discrimination Explain the Rightward Shift of Young Men?
Does discrimination drive alienation?

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

Australia Can't Recover From This
The victims were let down by a government whose role it is to do what individuals cannot: keep our nation safe from terrorism and mass shootings.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

The Starving Artist vs. A.I.: Guess Who Is Winning?
What A.I. imperils is not human creativity itself but the ability to make a living from creative endeavor.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

How to Do a Little More Good in the World
As part of Times Opinion's Giving Guide, the columnist Ezra Klein spoke with Elie Hassenfeld, GiveWell's co-founder and chief executive.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

GiveWell's Lightbulb Moment
Elie Hassenfeld was inspired to start GiveWell when he couldn't find answers to his questions about charitable donations. He shares the organization's origin story on "The Ezra Klein Show."

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

Our Petty, Hollow, Squalid Ogre in Chief
The White House has never had a more loathsome occupant.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

Donald Trump May Be About to Pick the Least Important Fed Chair in Decades
Consensus may be a thing of the past. And that's good.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

Rob Reiner's Legacy Will Outlast Trump's Toxic Talk
Readers mourn Rob Reiner and take offense at the president's crude response. Also: America snubs its allies; phone scams; former President Joe Biden's library.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

Stephen King on Rob Reiner's ‘Stand by Me'
In Rob's hands, "Stand by Me," my most autobiographical novel, rang true.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

The Trump Mind-Set Is Not Complex
Gimme, gimme, gimme. Gimme some more.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

Three Opinion Writers Chat About Rob Reiner's Life and Work
Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Cottle and Ross Douthat chat with Stephen Stromberg about Rob Reiner's legacy.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

Donate This Holiday Season: The World's Poorest Need Your Help
Elie Hassenfeld, the chief executive of the nonprofit GiveWell, makes the case for a more rigorous, transparent and accountable approach to charitable giving.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

Olivia Nuzzi, Karine Jean-Pierre and Eric Trump Have All Written the Same Book
A recent spate of books highlights the presence of a new category, one well suited to our time: the grievance memoir.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

A Family Transformed by a Special-Needs Preschool
For the mother of a son and a daughter with autism, the Kennedy Children's Center has "opened up a whole world."

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

Why Both Republicans and Democrats Are Wrong About Health Care
The real issue is how to address overall cost. Haggling over Obamacare subsidies or what might replace them isn't the solution.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

Will Creative Work Survive A.I.?
What A.I. imperils is not human creativity itself but the ability to make a living from creative endeavor.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 16, 2025

Europe Is in Decline. Good.
Demotion need not be traumatic.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 15, 2025

600 Readers Told Us About the Best Gifts They Ever Got. These Are the Top 13.
We asked readers to tell us about the most memorable presents they've received.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 15, 2025

13 Holiday Gifts that Cost (Almost) Nothing
We asked readers to tell us about the most memorable presents they've received.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 15, 2025

Trump's Dated Strategy Is Putting Us on a Path to World War III
We are headed for more confrontation, more brinkmanship, more war.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 15, 2025

Selling Young Men on the Blame Game
It's not a coincidence that more young men are blaming women for their problems, Jamelle Bouie says.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 15, 2025

The G.O.P.'s ‘Women Problem'
This started long before President Trump was in office, Michelle Cottle says.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 15, 2025

After Two Mass Shootings, Grief and Resilience
Readers react to the shootings at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, and at Brown University. Also: Defining old; the East Wing teardown.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 15, 2025

The Humanity Amid the Horror at Bondi Beach
We must not succumb to the darkness of hate and fear.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 15, 2025

This Hanukkah, We Need the Light of Hope
We must not succumb to the darkness of hate and fear.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 15, 2025

Trump's Superlatives Are Bigger Than Yours
The president is getting a lesson in the limits of grade inflation.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 15, 2025

Bret Stephens on the Fight for the Future of the Right
The columnist believes America's real political contest is in the center.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 15, 2025

Trump Wants to Carve Up the World. It's a Blueprint for Disaster.
We are headed for more confrontation, more brinkmanship, more war.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 15, 2025

A Gift That Gets Children Reading
Early access to high-quality books can transform lives, improve educational outcomes and help create the next generation of curious and informed citizens.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 15, 2025

Trump's Diplomats Act More Like Cowboys. Could That Be a Good Thing?
Sometimes Trump's unconventional foreign policy just works.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 14, 2025

Trump Said It Would Be Easy to Free Jimmy Lai. He Should Prove It.
The Hong Kong publisher's fate will reveal whether democracies still have the resolve to defend their own values.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 14, 2025

The Bondi Beach Shooting Is What ‘Globalize the Intifada' Looks Like
When a slogan's real meaning comes true.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 14, 2025

No Quick Fix for Our Housing Crisis
Sampling the many responses to a column by Ezra Klein.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 14, 2025

What Happens if You Refuse to Recognize That We Are in a Death Spiral
Remind me never to listen to what they are saying online about me.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 14, 2025

The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
The first rule of dark money is to quit blabbing about it. Did they think people would thank them for it?

NYT > Opinion
Dec 14, 2025

Home-Schooled Kids Are Not All Right
Not once, in the four and a half years I learned at home, did anyone from the state come to assess what sort of education I was receiving, or even just check on me.

NYT > Opinion
Dec 13, 2025

Trump Confronts a Backlash of the Reasonable
An explanation for the sharp decline in President Trump's approval ratings.

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