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In the years ahead, many of us will be asking ourselves: Who is the most vulnerable to whatever comes next? It is, sadly, a rather long list. This has been [...]

Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists Jamelle Bouie, Ross Douthat, M. Gessen and Lydia Polgreen about Donald Trump's preparations for a [...]

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: [...]

Patrick Healy: Folks, I want to take you back to November 2016, after Donald Trump was elected president. Much of what we saw in that first Trump transition process foreshadowed [...]

For over a month now, my mother has been pestering me about her missing passport. It was in her closet, she said, and suddenly it was gone. It was expired, [...]

Hace más de un mes que mi madre me fastidia con su pasaporte perdido. Dijo que estaba en su armario y, de repente, había desaparecido. Estaba caducado, y renovarlo sería [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Lydia Polgreen Last month, I was in Dubai for a reporting trip and met a Palestinian American woman named Alaa' Odeh at a dinner party. She is from North [...]

Last week at a lavish global summit in the Russian city of Kazan, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia, once a darling of the West -- winner of the Nobel [...]

Byline: Lydia Polgreen Last week at a lavish global summit in the Russian city of Kazan, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia, once a darling of the West - winner [...]

Byline: Lydia Polgreen When my family moved back to the United States from East Africa in the mid-1980s, one might have thought it was a peak time of compassion for [...]

Byline: Lydia Polgreen In its upcoming term, the Supreme Court will once again hear a case that involves a highly contentious question that lies at the heart of personal liberty: [...]

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 | [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I remember the moment I knew that Kamala Harris was not the candidate for me in the 2020 presidential race. It was just a few days before the second Democratic [...]

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 [...]

Over the weekend https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/opinion/jd-vance-kamala-harris.html about the way diversity, equity and inclusion have redounded to the benefit of JD Vance, saying he as much as anyone could be called a D.E.I. [...]

Byline: Lydia Polgreen In the aftermath of what appears to have been an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Republicans are accusing the news media of creating an atmosphere that made [...]

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” [...]

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: Lydia Polgreen Like many Americans who watched the presidential debate on Thursday night, I knew when it was over that there was no way I was going to sleep. [...]

Like many Americans who watched the presidential debate on Thursday night, I knew when it was over that there was no way I was going to sleep. So I did [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube Amid politically charged flag flying, secret recordings, and eyebrow-raising financial disclosures, there’s something fishy about [...]

Back in January, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India looked all but unstoppable, he visited the small city of Ayodhya for the unofficial start of his campaign to win [...]

Byline: Lydia Polgreen If you want to understand why the party that liberated South Africa from white rule lost its parliamentary majority in the election this week, you need to [...]

If you want to understand why the party that liberated South Africa from white rule lost its parliamentary majority in the election this week, you need to look no further [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

On Wednesday morning, on a corner across the street from Columbia University, a man dressed in black, a huge gold cross around his neck, brandished a sign that featured a [...]

As a journalist, you usually go to the front line to find the news. But sometimes the front line finds you. This happened to me not once but twice on [...]

“It’s the worst story I’ve ever covered.” Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’ Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music The columnist Thomas L. Friedman joined the hosts of [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music This week, the “Matter of Opinion” hosts debate how religious voters will react to Donald Trump’s betrayal [...]

In 1999 a Florida lawyer, Anuraag Singhal, represented a man convicted of gunning down a police officer. Singhal had to somehow persuade a jury that his client, Jeffrey Lee Weaver, [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music It’s not just bad vibes — America’s kids are not OK. As study after study shows worsening [...]

It is a rare thing in our rapidly secularizing country to be confronted with piety and devotion in popular culture. So it was a surprise, and a balm, to watch [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music The sociologist and New York Times columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom joins the hosts of “Matter of Opinion” [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music It can often feel as if politicians use a lot of words without saying much of anything. [...]

Byline: Lydia Polgreen On paper, President Biden's nominee to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Adeel Abdullah Mangi, is an archetypical candidate for [...]

On paper, President Biden's nominee to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Adeel Abdullah Mangi, is an archetypical candidate for a federal judgeship. [...]

Patrick Healy, Deputy Opinion Editor Lydia, what struck me most about https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/opinion/islamophobia-democrats-adeel-mangi.html on Adeel Abdullah Mangi, who is President Biden’s nominee to the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Many voters from both parties are less than enthusiastic about their likely options this November. This week [...]

Byline: Lydia Polgreen Dead bodies are rotting on the streets of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. Clean drinking water is scarce, and a cholera outbreak threatens. Hunger looms. The outgunned police force [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Could Donald Trump’s promise to be a dictator on day one come true? On this episode of [...]

Last month, Alabama's Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are considered ''extrauterine children,'' prompting hospitals in the state to suspend in vitro fertilization procedures and kicking off a national conversation [...]

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, the Republican Party declared victory. But the [...]