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In 2015, Barack Obama submitted to interviews with three YouTube stars, one of whom was notable for eating cereal out of a bathtub. It was a moment that opened a [...]

Last week's column was devoted to uncertainties about how the next president would handle the deteriorating situation in Ukraine, where America's proxy and ally is slowly losing ground to Russia, [...]

Last week’s column was devoted to uncertainties about how the next president would handle the deteriorating situation in Ukraine, where America’s proxy and ally is slowly losing ground to Russia, [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube | iHeartRadio This week the hosts discuss what was obscured by the civility of the [...]

Patrick Healy: Heading into tonight’s vice-presidential debate, what are you most curious about? What do you want to hear or see from the candidates? David Brooks: Policy! Here are some [...]

The first half of the vice-presidential debate has been the strongest illustration in this campaign so far of why it made sense for Donald Trump to pick JD Vance as [...]

Not all the policy questions left unanswered by Kamala Harris's studiously vague presidential campaign are created equal. It is not especially urgent, for instance, to know how Harris's views of [...]

Not all the policy questions left unanswered by Kamala Harris’s studiously vague presidential campaign are created equal. It is not especially urgent, for instance, to know how Harris’s views of [...]

For some time now, going back to the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, if not earlier, I’ve been hearing anecdotes about young men showing up at churches in unexpected numbers. [...]

The election of 2016, both Donald Trump's shocking victory and Bernie Sanders's socialist insurgency, created a sudden swell of ideological ambition. Conservative thinkers rushed to fill in the outlines of [...]

A few weeks ago, just after Robert Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement of Donald Trump, Matt Yglesias wrote an https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-crank-realignment-is-bad-for on what he called “the crank realignment” — the recent migration of [...]

Since the populist surge that gave us Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump, politics in the Western world has polarized into a distinctive stalemate -- an inconclusive struggle between [...]

It's Nov. 6, 2024, the morning after Election Day. To understand Kamala Harris's narrow victory over Donald Trump, you have to think about Marie Kondo, the Japanese style guru famous [...]

Standing in the Roman Pantheon last spring, one of my daughters asked the kind of question that newspaper columnists are tempted to place in the mouths of our children when [...]

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 | [...]

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 to be a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Let’s take a break from the drama of the 2024 election, the great struggle to rule the American imperium, and talk about https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/03/opinion/disney-world.html dealing with turmoil and self-doubt: the almighty [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Patrick Healy: The answer to one of the biggest questions of the presidential election has now been revealed: Donald Trump has chosen J.D. Vance as his running mate. What was [...]

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 […]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A story that’s grist for big debates without necessarily being a good movie. A story that’s grist for big debates without necessarily being a good movie “Megalopolis,” the 85-year-old Francis [...]

Looking for tinfoil hats across the ideological spectrum. Looking for tinfoil hats across the ideological spectrum A few weeks ago, just after Robert Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement of Donald Trump, Matt [...]

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. [...]