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This article is part of Times Opinion's Giving Guide 2024. Read more in a note from Times Opinion's editor, Kathleen Kingsbury. For a lot of reasons that seem silly in [...]

Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists Maureen Dowd, Tressie McMillan Cottom and Lydia Polgreen about the new movie 'Wicked.' Patrick Healy: [...]

Patrick Healy: I have a confession to make. While I love “The Wizard of Oz” and I love theater, I was never interested in the Broadway musical “Wicked.” I had [...]

Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists Maureen Dowd, Tressie McMillan Cottom and Lydia Polgreen about the new movie 'Wicked.' Patrick Healy: [...]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/opinion/charity-holiday-gift-giving-guide.html For a lot of reasons that seem silly in hindsight, as Hurricane Helene had begun to cut a path through North Carolina and Tennessee, a friend and I drove [...]

Everyone is in a tizzy. That is my official diagnosis of the post-election hangover in my world. My phone is full of text messages from people I haven't heard from [...]

Byline: Tressie McMillan Cottom Everyone is in a tizzy. That is my official diagnosis of the post-election hangover in my world. My phone is full of text messages from people [...]

Everyone is in a tizzy. That is my official diagnosis of the post-election hangover in my world. My phone is full of text messages from people I haven’t heard from [...]

I have always been audacious about Black women's political aspirations. When I was 15 years old I decided to become a local pageant queen, a Carousel Princess, for our Thanksgiving [...]

The New York Times Opinion columnists Lydia Polgreen and Tressie McMillan Cottom discuss what was revealed about America on Tuesday, why the Democrats failed and what individuals can do about [...]

Patrick Healy: Happy Election Day! What do you think will happen? Michelle Goldberg: I like the phrase lots of Democrats are using: “https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kamala-harris-campaign-early-voting-battleground-states.html.” I’d bet on Kamala Harris winning, though [...]

For many Americans in 2018, a Donald Trump rally was the best place to get a dopamine fix. While his humor left — and leaves — many liberals cold, it […]

What you saw on Tuesday in the vice-presidential debate was an audition for the leader of the post-Trump Republican Party. Over and over again JD Vance successfully distanced himself from [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Tressie McMillan Cottom While Donald Trump hides out in Mar-a-Lago, JD Vance has spent the past few weeks taking point on the G.O.P.'s continued struggle to define Kamala Harris. [...]

In 2007, a young biracial senator from Illinois named Barack Obama was trying to convince Black voters that he was one of them. I traveled to South Carolina to see [...]

I have not been the biggest fan of Kamala Harris, but to my surprise, the candidate who underwhelmed in 2020 is gone. Since she became the presumptive Democratic nominee, I [...]

On an unseasonably warm day in late April in Louisville, Ky., the drone of low-flying helicopters overtook the usual sounds of spring as the wealthy descended on the Kentucky Derby. [...]

Our world is more connected than ever. But it's never been easier to find yourself shepherded into a comfortable herd made up of close friends or political allies, your social [...]

President Biden has been given his graceful exit. Kamala Harris has cleared the deck. A new age in presidential politics is about to begin. A biracial Black and South Asian [...]

President Biden’s decision to withdraw was probably a foregone conclusion a week ago. Major donors and trusted advisers had made their preference known. So had many members of the House [...]

While the man at the top of the Republican ticket looks old, the audience and speakers at the Republican National Convention feel remarkably young. In the valuable final minutes of [...]

O.J. Simpson will be remembered not for his athletic ability, but as a spectacle. Most people tend to think the O.J. story started when the Los Angeles police chased a [...]

Beyoncé released a genre-bending country album, ''Cowboy Carter,'' last week. After listening to it in all the requisite settings -- on a walk, in a car and on a plane [...]

The moral panic about ''woke'' campuses has metastasized into actual legislation, and not just in the swampy idylls of Florida. Last week the governor of Alabama signed a bill that [...]

Oprah Winfrey's back, and she wants to talk about losing weight. Again. On Monday, Oprah's ABC special, ''Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution,'' promised to answer some of the [...]

Who doubted Usher Raymond IV? Not I, said the duck. Plenty of people did. There was a lot of online speculation about whether Usher has enough hits to rock a [...]

Fans have speculated for years that Beyoncé Knowles Carter, a Texas native, has a proper country album in her sights. During the Super Bowl, she appeared in a Verizon advertisement [...]

I wanted to bask in the glow cast by Tracy Chapman’s brief return to performing Sunday night at the Grammys, but other people’s cultural projections dragged me down. Chapman performed [...]

Claudine Gay's resignation this week as Harvard University's president marks the end of a shameful chapter for the institution. The debacle's architects promise to make America's elite institutions great again. [...]

To those wondering if “Cowboy Carter” is country, Beyoncé asks, “whose country?” Beyoncé released a genre-bending country album, “Cowboy Carter,” last week. After listening to it in all the requisite [...]

Byline: Tressie McMillan Cottom The economy is growing. Wages are up. Unemployment is low. Income inequality is narrowing. The fearmongering about inflation proved to be, well, wrong. According to many [...]

We have become fluent in the new language of pharmacology, diabetes, and weight loss. Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro are part of our public lexicon. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists are [...]

Hemos adquirido soltura con el nuevo lenguaje de la farmacología, la diabetes y la pérdida de peso. Ozempic, Wegovy y Mounjaro son parte de nuestro léxico público. Los agonistas del [...]

Becoming a professor has never been a path to riches. But it once promised a path to professional stability, mostly for white men. As the professoriate has become more female [...]

Byline: Tressie McMillan Cottom A Black rodeo sounds like a good time at any time, but this is a particular moment in the near history of Portland, Ore. The city [...]

When “Ted Lasso” premiered in 2020, it was supposed to rehab masculinity’s brand. Beaten up by #MeToo, beleaguered by Donald Trump’s candidacy and presidency and diminished by fair competition from [...]

While the world was watching the former president surrender to authorities in a New York City courthouse last week, I was watching Nashville and Raleigh. I live in North Carolina, [...]

Byline: Tressie McMillan Cottom If you are ever trapped between a hungry bear and a blonde with an attitude, fight the bear. That was my lesson over the holiday break. [...]

If you are ever trapped between a hungry bear and a blonde with an attitude, fight the bear. That was my lesson over the holiday break. I took a few [...]

This article is part of Times Opinion's 2022 Giving Guide. Read more about the guide in a note from Opinion's editor, Kathleen Kingsbury.I have food on my mind. The few [...]