Opinion Columnists

What unrevealed details have made Trump so intent on preventing further disclosure?

By Ross Douthat

Is this the beginning of the end for Trump and his MAGA base?

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

Education, open markets, trade and immigration transformed the United States into the world’s dominant power, but each is now being weakened.

By Nicholas Kristof

Paul Kingsnorth argues technology is killing us - physically and spiritually.

By Ross Douthat and Victoria Chamberlin

Maybe there’s an innocent explanation for all the privileges she’s being accorded, but I can’t think of one.

By Michelle Goldberg

The political writer John Ganz dissects the Republican Party’s internal battle over antisemitism.

By Ezra Klein and Jack McCordick

Once you put people into categorical boxes, you are inviting them to see history as a zero-sum conflict between this group and that one.

By David Brooks

Trump has a favorite power.

By David French

Forget MAGA. Forget MAHA. Let’s make America sane again.

By Frank Bruni and Bret Stephens

Only stardom can save Hollywood.

By Ross Douthat

It’s one he is unlikely to forget.

By Jamelle Bouie

Lydia Polgreen speaks to the former New York Times bureau chief Howard W. French about the cost of not engaging with Africa.

By Howard W. French, Lydia Polgreen and Derek Arthur

A bigotry for morons will always be political gold in a world of morons.

By Bret Stephens

A tech billionaire professes to hate identity politics, but they seem in some ways to consume him.

By Michelle Goldberg

Cecilia Muñoz on how to solve America’s biggest political challenge.

By Cecilia Muñoz, David Leonhardt and Jillian Weinberger

We have arrived at a “Polycene” moment where binary systems are giving way to multiple interconnected ones.

By Thomas L. Friedman

This is what happens when the fringe becomes the mainstream (and vice versa).

By David French

There is no one-size-fits-all template for winning elections.

By Jamelle Bouie

If all other institutions fail, is there not a certain unique potency in the monarchy before dissolution?

By Ross Douthat

Murderous attacks on Christians and Muslims alike are a real problem in Nigeria. Cutting humanitarian assistance there is even more lethal.

By Nicholas Kristof

The round table convenes to discuss what comes after the Democrats’ big wins — and whether the “red hat” coalition can recover.

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

And it defeats the basic purpose of the document.

By M. Gessen

She has shown herself more willing than most to put aside her own ego for the greater good.

By Michelle Goldberg

Inside the minds of authoritarians.

By David Brooks

Ezra Klein and Aaron Retica discuss whether affordability is the Democrats’ winning message, Trump’s politics of cruelty and how liberalism can win right now.

By Ezra Klein, Annie Galvin and Claire Gordon

What both parties should take away from a night of Democratic victories.

By Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

Where is the line between authority and authoritarianism?

By Emily Bazelon and David French

And if so, can conservative feminism fix it?

By Ross Douthat and Victoria Chamberlin

New York’s next mayor won’t save the Democrats.

By Ross Douthat, Sophia Alvarez Boyd and Stephanie Shen

Just Ask Mikie Sherrill, Abigail Spanberger and Zohran Mamdani.

By Jamelle Bouie

Unlike old soldiers, they don’t even fade away.

By Bret Stephens

There are no shortcuts in the fight against right-wing antisemitism.

By Ross Douthat

When Republicans sing Kumbaya.

By Thomas B. Edsall

A white nationalist’s rise reveals a seemingly unstoppable ratchet of radicalization on the right.

By Michelle Goldberg

As he so often does, the president is pushing the wrong answer to the right question on trade policy with Beijing.

By Thomas L. Friedman

The Vermont senator on how to take the country back from elites — on both sides of the aisle.

By Bernie Sanders, David Leonhardt and Jillian Weinberger

And why it matters so much to try.

By M. Gessen

If there is no cover-up, then there must not have been a crime.

By David French

Democrats do not just need to win more people. They also need to win more places.

By Ezra Klein

The Constitution is not a word game.

By Jamelle Bouie

Lessons from the Tea Party and recent elections.

By Ross Douthat

Commercial camaraderie underscores how it’s lacking in real life.

By Maureen Dowd

Girls as young as 10 are sometimes legally wed here in the U.S., even as we tell other countries to end this cruel practice.

By Nicholas Kristof

Congress is dying in real time.

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

A Senate candidate’s popularity reveals the depth of Democratic disaffection.

By Michelle Goldberg

Professor Marianne Hirsch on how the way we teach the “crime of all crimes” informs our understanding of Gaza.

By Marianne Hirsch, M. Gessen and Jillian Weinberger

MAGA is using left ideas to destroy the left.

By David Brooks

Reports are emerging of atrocities in Darfur. The Trump and Biden administrations could have tried harder to prevent them.

By Nicholas Kristof

The moderate vs. progressive debate will not be solved on Tuesday.

By Frank Bruni and Bret Stephens

The tech company’s C.T.O. on surveillance, A.I. and the future of war.

By Ross Douthat and Sophia Alvarez Boyd

Xi now sees our weakness and will try to exploit it, perhaps leaving America a diminished presence in Asia.

By Nicholas Kristof

Do Democrats know what the working class actually looks like?

By Tressie McMillan Cottom

It may take an imperial Congress to correct its flaws.

By Jamelle Bouie

Amit Segal, a prominent Israeli right-wing commentator, envisions the future of the Gaza Strip.

By Ezra Klein and Jack McCordick

Why do people keep comparing the President to a Mafia don?

By Thomas B. Edsall

Republicans aren’t just gerrymandering my state. They’re erasing its political identity.

By Frank Bruni

The Harvard historian on why change requires “determination and imagination.”

By Jill Lepore, David Leonhardt and Jillian Weinberger

The N.B.A. should have known this was coming.

By David French

From Venezuela to the East Wing of the White House.

By Jamelle Bouie

Demolition Man builds a monument to his wrecking-ball style.

By Maureen Dowd

The arguments against it illustrate a consistent problem with progressive stewardship of American cities.

By Ross Douthat

Jared Abbott, the director of the Center for Working-Class Politics, discusses what it would take for Democrats to better appeal to working-class voters.

By Ezra Klein and Rollin Hu

Yes, Trump is assaulting democracy, but what worries me more is what has happened to the rest of us — the loss of the convictions and norms that undergird democracy.

By David Brooks

The new right pines for a story that would vindicate its reactionary rage.

By David French

Mamdani might be working in Democrats’ favor. But what about “No Kings”?

By David Brooks, E. J. Dionne Jr., Robert Siegel and Vishakha Darbha

OpenAI is worth more than Goldman Sachs. Here’s what that means for the economy.

By Ross Douthat, Victoria Chamberlin and Sophia Alvarez Boyd

We have a chance to discover the true cost of this war.

By Lydia Polgreen

As children die for want of cheap medicines, the U.S. spends billions on Argentina — thus rescuing rich investors who made bad bets.

By Nicholas Kristof

Who’s the patriot now?

By Jamelle Bouie

A candidate who stands out for his monomania, double standards and affinity for extremists.

By Bret Stephens

Coarseness and conservative impulses in “The Life of a Showgirl.”

By Ross Douthat

Races in New Jersey and Virginia are testing the power of the moderate lane.

By Thomas B. Edsall

The political scientist Suzanne Mettler examines the roots of America’s urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back rural voters.

By Ezra Klein and Jack McCordick

A perverse delight in degradation has always coursed through MAGA circles.

By Michelle Goldberg

Spanish has become a sanctioned indicator of potential criminality in the United States of America.

By Carlos Lozada

Lessons from a Democrat who won in a Republican state.

By Ruben Gallego, David Leonhardt and Jillian Weinberger

The Young Republicans’ Telegram chat was revealing in so many ways.

By David French

What explains the Republican Party’s posture toward these protests?

By Jamelle Bouie

Pete Hegseth can’t handle the truth.

By Maureen Dowd

Three Southern Opinion columnists on the region and its outsize role in national politics.

By Jamelle Bouie, David French, Tressie McMillan Cottom and Derek Arthur

Trump’s flatterers are sacrificing more than just their dignity.

By Frank Bruni

The veteran Middle East negotiators Hussein Agha and Robert Malley discuss the promises and pitfalls of Trump’s peace deal.

By Ezra Klein and Annie Galvin

Ten years into the Trump era, Democrats still don’t seem to know how to respond.

By Frank Bruni and Bret Stephens

The Supreme Court justice isn’t making decisions based on public opinion.

By Ross Douthat and Sophia Alvarez Boyd

Francesca Albanese’s provocative allegations have made her a villain to some and a hero to others.

By M. Gessen

Who would have imagined I’d ever praise something Trump did in the world of foreign policy?

By Nicholas Kristof

The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks.

By Ezra Klein

A pious vision of political economy should get more concrete.

By Ross Douthat

Message to Trump: As hard as Stage 1 was for Gaza peace, you have not even seen hard yet.

By Thomas L. Friedman

Israelis went to war to defeat an existential threat — and an existential lie.

By Bret Stephens

The former transportation secretary argues Americans need a new sense of belonging.

By Pete Buttigieg, David Leonhardt and Jillian Weinberger

We are paying a tremendous political and psychological cost for access to social media.

By Thomas B. Edsall

Trump and his Republican minions won’t rest until the truth of that day is buried.

By Frank Bruni

The reactionary centrism of “After the Hunt.”

By Michelle Goldberg

Dishonest presidents should be entitled to no deference at all.

By David French

Peace abroad and war at home — not very America first!

By Maureen Dowd

Three keys to his success on the world stage could be applied at home.

By Ross Douthat

On this week’s round table: courts, Congress and chaos under Trump.

By Michelle Cottle, E. J. Dionne Jr., David French and Derek Arthur

Jon Favreau considers how the government shutdown could help Democrats rebuild their fractured party.

By Ezra Klein

With the millions being used to deploy troops to Portland, Trump could help with treatment for substance use, with emergency housing, with education.

By Nicholas Kristof and Rian Dundon