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The hosts argue Kamala Harris’s speech was a “joyful but not transformational” moment for the Democrats. Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | [...]

Byline: Ross Douthat Amid all the joy and positivity and the big, beautiful polling surges for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, the word has gone out: This election isn't going [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube | iHeartRadio If you believe JD Vance, the American family is in crisis. But are [...]

Byline: Ross Douthat Let's take a break from the drama of the 2024 election, the great struggle to rule the American imperium, and talk about another empire dealing with turmoil [...]

One of the Biden White House's greatest achievements, from the perspective of its staffers, if not necessarily the country, has been to deny the press the kind of juicy leaks [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube | iHeartRadio This week on the show, Michelle Goldberg joins Michelle Cottle and Ross Douthat [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube The 2024 presidential race is officially in its identity politics stage. From “White dudes for [...]

JD Vance is one of the first important politicians in the United States to directly take up one of the https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/opinion/smartphones-parenting-birthrate.html of https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/anti-natalism.html — the ongoing collapse of birthrates across [...]

Byline: Ross Douthat Across Donald Trump's presidency, the American establishment achieved an unprecedented level of ideological unity and conformity - first in opposition to Trump himself, and then in the [...]

Across Donald Trump's presidency, the American establishment achieved an unprecedented level of ideological unity and conformity -- first in opposition to Trump himself, and then in the embrace of progressive [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube Vice President Kamala Harris has gone from being one of President Biden’s many problems to [...]

Patrick Healy: Michelle, Lydia, Ross and David, I’ll cut to the chase: Is the Democratic Party making a mistake by quickly going all in on Kamala Harris as its likely [...]

The six days that carried Donald Trump from the stage in Butler, Pa., to the rostrum at the Republican National Convention seemed at times like the buildup to a moment […]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube The former president was expected to offer unity in his nomination acceptance speech. But after [...]

Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists Ross Douthat, David French, Michelle Goldberg and Bret Stephens to discuss Donald Trump's choice of [...]

Byline: Ross Douthat Every act of political violence yields instant reactions that can't be supported by the available facts. A single assassination attempt by a loner with a rifle doesn't [...]

Donald Trump will arrive at the 2024 Republican convention -- his Republican convention, finally and completely, without the dissent of 2016 or the pandemic that overshadowed 2020 -- closer than [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube “The dam is breaking!” Have the Democrats reached their “break glass in case of emergency” [...]

I https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/opinion/biden-2024-trump-2016.html last weekend that the Democrats will find a way to jettison Joe Biden; that likelihood seems to fluctuate daily or even hourly, but for now my prediction stands. [...]

In a way, we've been here before. A presidential candidate seemingly unfit for office but nonetheless in position to be his party's standard-bearer. A media drumbeat demanding that somebody, somehow, […]

Gretchen Whitmer, Kamala Harris, President Biden -- who is best positioned to beat Donald Trump in November? With President Biden's candidacy in question, we asked six New York Times Opinion […]

Byline: Ross Douthat Now that the first general-election debate of 2024 has removed any doubt about the necessity of removing President Biden from the Democratic ticket, you will hear a [...]

Now that the first general-election debate of 2024 has removed any doubt about the necessity of removing President Biden from the Democratic ticket, you will hear a lot of serious [...]

Three Opinion writers weigh in on the first presidential debate of 2024. Listen to and follow 'Matter of Opinion' Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube On the [...]

Along with Donald Trump, a big winner in Thursday night’s presidential debate was the distinguished historian Niall Ferguson, who recently stirred up a lot of debate with a https://www.thefp.com/p/were-all-soviets-now for [...]

Byline: Ross Douthat Donald Trump and Joe Biden come into Thursday's presidential debate as incredibly well-known quantities defined by shared unpopularity and competing weaknesses. But their most important liabilities - [...]

Donald Trump and Joe Biden come into Thursday's presidential debate as incredibly well-known quantities defined by shared unpopularity and competing weaknesses. But their most important liabilities -- for the incumbent, [...]

In 2016, J.D. Vance's best-selling memoir, ''Hillbilly Elegy,'' made him one of America's leading interpreters of Trumpism, offering a personal narrative of populism's origins in working-class disarray. In 2024, as [...]

Across almost two weeks of controversy over the https://www.ncregister.com/news/harrison-butker-speech-at-benedictine that Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker gave at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., one of the most useful pieces of [...]

Byline: Ross Douthat Throughout the Republican primary campaign (such as it was), it was perfectly clear that the multiple indictments of Donald Trump helped him consolidate support. This was a [...]

Throughout the Republican primary campaign (such as it was), it was perfectly clear that the multiple indictments of Donald Trump helped him consolidate support. This was a source of moral [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube This week on “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts debate what the https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/13/us/elections/times-siena-battleground-states-toplines.html reveals about Joe [...]

Foreign policy can make a mockery of moral certitude. You're trying to master a landscape of anarchy policed by violence, where ideological differences make American polarization look like genial neighborliness, [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube Donald Trump is searching for a running mate, and his list of potential candidates is [...]

Byline: Ross Douthat Before Pope Francis was elected, conservative Catholics had fallen into a habit of dismissing the more liberal form of Catholicism as an old and faded thing, a [...]

Byline: Ross Douthat Let me tell you a medical story; you decide what you make of it. A person has a routine medical experience, the kind that all the person's [...]

Let me tell you a medical story; you decide what you make of it. A person has a routine medical experience, the kind that all their neighbors have had as [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube On this episode of “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts get heated about the political divisions [...]

My weekend https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/opinion/columbia-university-protests.html used this season of campus protest as an opportunity to discuss the evolution of Columbia’s core curriculum, whose https://www.college.columbia.edu/core-curriculum/classes/contemporary-civilization on contemporary politics, I argued, usefully distill the [...]

Byline: Ross Douthat In February, there was a flurry of discussion about whether Joe Biden's advancing age and seeming weakness in a matchup with Donald Trump meant that he should [...]

When I was a college undergraduate 25 years ago, the fancy school that I attended offered what it styled as a ''core curriculum'' that was really nothing of the sort. [...]

Byline: Ross Douthat For all the ways that our political coalitions have changed over the last few generations - Southern Democrats joining the G.O.P., Northeastern Republicans turning Democrat, 'Reagan Democrats' [...]

For all the ways that our political coalitions have changed over the last few generations -- Southern Democrats joining the G.O.P., Northeastern Republicans turning Democrat, ''Reagan Democrats'' moving right, suburban [...]

Byline: Ross Douthat This week Donald Trump was put on trial by a liberal prosecutor on what seems like the most nakedly political of the multiple charges that he's facing. [...]

It’s unusual when you find a strong dose of pessimism about the future of technological progress highlighted by one of the world’s leading techno-optimists. But if you follow the combative [...]