Opinion Columnists

A pivotal term beckons.

By Emily Bazelon and David French

Doug Wilson’s political project to “stop making God angry.”

By Ross Douthat and Victoria Chamberlin

Obamacare premiums could double for millions of Americans if the law isn’t changed. Neera Tanden walks Ezra Klein through the shutdown’s policy stakes.

By Ezra Klein

Remember when Republicans loved states’ rights?

By Jamelle Bouie

Can Donald Trump end the “worst war” with the latest round of peace talks?

By Thomas L. Friedman and Derek Arthur

The Trump administration has a long way to go.

By Ross Douthat

The only viable path to a Palestinian state is an end to the fantasy of Israel’s destruction.

By Bret Stephens

MAGA is tearing itself apart over who really killed Charlie Kirk.

By Michelle Goldberg

Republicans’ exploitation of the government’s closure is the tell that they prefer it this way.

By Frank Bruni

A conservative’s vision for MAGA beyond Trump.

By Gladden Pappin, David Leonhardt and Jillian Weinberger

There’s a way out of this, and people in despair are leading the way.

By David French

Trump’s exclusionary view of the country strains the bonds of union.

By Jamelle Bouie

Trump’s dispatch of National Guard troops to Portland is another dangerous step toward politicizing America’s military forces.

By Nicholas Kristof

The Dream Factory is going full fantasy, human factor be damned.

By Maureen Dowd

Getting past the urge to reduce all politics to existential conflict.

By Ross Douthat

This week, the round table convenes to discuss who wins and who loses when the government shuts down.

By Jamelle Bouie, David French, Michelle Goldberg and Derek Arthur

The musician and record producer Brian Eno delves into his experiments with ambient music, his thoughts on generative A.I. and his deep gratitude for the uniqueness of human life.

By Ezra Klein

The Trump administration is a mockery of the idea of meritocracy.

By David French

Meet the online star who likes to play with fire.

By Ross Douthat and Victoria Chamberlin

Orphaned in a massacre in Congo, a onetime elementary school dropout is now an American and can teach us something about resilience.

By Nicholas Kristof

What a narrow result in a closely divided nation actually means for the country and its political parties.

By Jamelle Bouie

Trump is known for saying a lot of things that he can’t or won’t back up. This time, the threats are real.

By Tressie McMillan Cottom

James Talarico sees a spiritual void at the center of our society.

By Michelle Goldberg

Trump’s peace plan will be like solving a diplomatic Rubik’s Cube every day — while all the enemies of the deal try to scramble it.

By Thomas L. Friedman

“One Battle After Another” defies Trumpian taboos.

By Michelle Goldberg

The documentarian reflects on the ideas that drove our nation’s founding — and how they echo today.

By Ken Burns, David Leonhardt and Jillian Weinberger

The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Ezra Klein on the show to discuss how the left should think about the work of politics and persuasion in this moment.

By Ezra Klein

The political prosecution of James Comey.

By David French

Why the former F.B.I. director should not have been charged, according to the president.

By Carlos Lozada

Even with big blue eyes or amazing pecs, A.I.’s allure can be deadly.

By Maureen Dowd

Three Opinion writers break down the former vice president’s book of excuses.

By Michelle Cottle, Carlos Lozada, Lydia Polgreen and Vishakha Darbha

With the technologies that are in the process of remaking our world, the zone of uncertainty is larger.

By Ross Douthat

In Uganda, desperation has eroded the social fabric and left women particularly vulnerable.

By Nicholas Kristof

There’s a new kind of copycat killer.

By Michelle Goldberg

He’s got the whole world in his hands.

By Frank Bruni and Bret Stephens

Ending the “culture of victimhood” on campus.

By Ross Douthat, Sophia Alvarez Boyd and Raina Raskin

My problem with the conversation about Kirk’s killing is that many people seem to have no coherent idea about the proper relationship between faith and politics.

By David Brooks

The dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. is leading to the squandering of taxpayer dollars, as well as of large numbers of lives.

By Nicholas Kristof

The political theorist Corey Robin walks through the history of the Red Scare and the “fractured mirror” it is to Trump’s attack on the “radical left.”

By Ezra Klein

This is about so much more than Lisa Cook.

By Jamelle Bouie

That’s often not been the case in recent years.

By Bret Stephens

Ukrainians know that they can no longer count on an American democracy to save them.

By Thomas L. Friedman

If MAGA evangelicals cheer the president’s hatred, if they welcome it, if they adopt it and if they vote for it, then they are responsible for it.

By David French

The MAGA movement’s encirclement maneuver is gaining ground.

By Thomas B. Edsall

Will a martyrdom set off a religious revival?

By Ross Douthat

How Republicans harnessed the story Democrats didn’t — and won’t — embrace.

By Elizabeth Warren, David Leonhardt and Jillian Weinberger

The TikTok deal is Trumpism 101.

By David French

This is one of those moments in history.

By M. Gessen

The Trump administration and its adherents want dominance and obedience.

By Jamelle Bouie

The title “107 Days” not only signifies the duration of Harris’s campaign; it is also her excuse for losing the election.

By Carlos Lozada

A civic-minded purpose is key.

By Ross Douthat

“We’re in the most dangerous point for free speech in America.”

By Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Cottle, David French and Derek Arthur

Redford and Newman, real movie stars with real values.

By Maureen Dowd

In desperate villages in southwestern Uganda, not only are aid cuts killing children every day, but the death toll is accelerating.

By Nicholas Kristof

The Utah governor is trying to model a different kind of leadership in a very dangerous political moment.

By Ezra Klein

The fixation on finding a transgender connection is as awful as it is dangerous.

By Lydia Polgreen

Leaders across the political spectrum have figured out how easily they can motivate people with anger, fear and domination.

By David Brooks

Frederick Douglass knew what free speech was. Why don’t we?

By David French

After the heartache and fury of the past week, it’s good to talk.

By Frank Bruni and Bret Stephens

‘They’re failing and rethinking nothing.’

By Ross Douthat and Andrea Betanzos

The president’s voters wanted to have it both ways. Reality said no.

By Jamelle Bouie

Progressives need a cure for political desperation and despair.

By Ross Douthat

Ukrainian and European officials, analysts and entrepreneurs keep asking privately, what’s up with Trump?

By Thomas L. Friedman

What the University of Chicago might have taught Charlie Kirk — and the rest of us.

By Bret Stephens

Ben Shapiro and I discuss the state — and stakes — of political disagreement in America.

By Ezra Klein

In a new series, David Leonhardt asks leading thinkers and politicians: What’s next.

By David Leonhardt and Jillian Weinberger

Even in mourning, the president drives our country closer to the brink.

By Frank Bruni

No matter the direction of the tragedy, the end result is the same — the right grows angrier at the left, and the left grows angrier at the right.

By David French

We can condemn his assassination without mythologizing him.

By Jamelle Bouie

Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska were victimized anew with each successive viewing.

By Zeynep Tufekci

The round table convenes to make sense of Kirk’s legacy and the future of discourse.

By Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Cottle, David French and Vishakha Darbha

Even if it sounds unrealistic, Trump can do something important with the entire country frayed and on edge: push for calm and unity.

By Thomas L. Friedman

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in politics without fear of violence. To lose that is to risk losing everything.

By Ezra Klein

David Brooks, E.J. Dionne Jr. and Robert Siegel take a temperature check on Trump’s second term.

By David Brooks, E. J. Dionne Jr., Robert Siegel and Derek Arthur

Robert Jay Lifton changed how I think about the world and about my family.

By M. Gessen

An assassin took aim at the American experiment itself.

By David French

He was a spokesman for a movement that seemed both more rebellious and more normal.

By Ross Douthat

Putin’s move has to be considered a test, and the West needs to think about how to counter it.

By Nicholas Kristof

Your fall politics quiz is here.

By Gail Collins

Five words from the Declaration of Independence that national conservatives don’t like.

By Jamelle Bouie