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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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Nov 01, 2026
A decade after the Pizzagate theory began, the Epstein files give the conspiracy theory a new life.
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Nov 01, 2026
It's not an idle philosophical question.
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Nov 01, 2026
The Department of Justice is in a state of moral collapse.
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Nov 01, 2026
The pontiff draws on his missionary background for a show of fortitude.
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Oct 31, 2026
Gerrymandering, Gilded Age-style.
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Oct 31, 2026
Horror isn't just scary — it can draw people together, especially when they've struggled to connect.
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Oct 31, 2026
The future of American politics runs through the South.
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Oct 31, 2026
Doctors like Annie Andrews, Amy Acton and Abdul El-Sayed remind us that Americans don't trust Republicans with their nation's health.
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Oct 31, 2026
Democratic sweep or not, politics are about to change.
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Oct 31, 2026
It's become screamingly obvious who represents billionaires and unchecked plutocratic power.
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Oct 31, 2026
Gerrymandering, Gilded Age-style.
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Oct 31, 2026
With the midterms just days away, Times Opinion writers are taking stock of key races and the themes emerging from them. The columnist Jamelle Bouie sees a "politics of morality" taking shape in the messaging of popular Democratic candidates, like Jon Ossoff and James Talarico. He's hopeful that it signals a larger shift away from the grievance-filled politics of Donald Trump.
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Oct 31, 2026
Horror isn't just scary — it can draw people together, especially when they've struggled to connect.
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Oct 31, 2026
The Democrats have been searching for a way to counteract the toxic masculinity of the right.
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Oct 31, 2026
One news report that morning conveyed an eternal truth: Commuters will be delayed.
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Oct 31, 2026
Democratic sweep or not, politics are about to change.
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Oct 30, 2026
"Both sides have raised the anxiety level," around the midterm election, the law expert Rick Pildes said on "Interesting Times" earlier this fall. Pildes argued that what he calls "election pornography" has shaped a narrative that our elections are more vulnerable to fraud than they actually are.
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Oct 30, 2026
What does the world's richest man believe in?
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