What the Fed Is Doing to Our Election, Our Climate and Our Economy
Its refusal to lower interest rates is a mistake.
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Its refusal to lower interest rates is a mistake.
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Republicans once proudly proclaimed their reverence for the Constitution; in Milwaukee, they crowned as their leader a man who attempted to subvert it.
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Our food supply is more fragile than you think.
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What do conservatives mean when they say that America is not “an idea”? The answer is key to understanding the 2024 election.
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Hulk Hogan Is Not the Only Way to Be a Man
The Democratic Party must join the battle for the hearts and minds of young men.
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Tech Bro Elegy: How Did JD Vance Get Here?
He’s hiding who he really represents behind a can of Mountain Dew.
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Harris vs. Trump Is Taking Shape. And Then There’s Vance.
It’s a whole new era in presidential politics. Right?
By Gail Collins and
I Was a Kamala Harris Skeptic. Here’s How I Got Coconut-Pilled.
Harris’s success and setbacks could make her the ideal candidate against a man who admits no mistakes, has no humility and is utterly unrelatable.
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He’s hiding who he really represents behind a can of Mountain Dew.
By Paul Krugman
Some financiers are seeing partisan corruption where it doesn’t exist.
By Peter Coy
On Trump’s comments to Christian voters and claims about his demeaning those with disabilities. Also: Retirement; coming out; youths in need; driver data.
All three men can help her, in different ways.
By Jonathan Alter
A declaration of victory by the Maduro regime is another case of how democracy is backsliding in Latin America.
By Michael Albertus
The future of the food supply is uncertain. Let’s look at solutions.
By Eliza Barclay
It’s a whole new era in presidential politics. Right?
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
Republicans once proudly proclaimed their reverence for the Constitution; in Milwaukee, they crowned as their leader a man who attempted to subvert it.
By Peter Wehner
When art changes opinions or opens hearts, it changes the world as profoundly as any legislation does.
By Margaret Renkl
Jane Coaston interviews anti-abortion activist Kristan Hawkins about Donald Trump, the changes in the G.O.P. and how activists are pushing from the outside.
By Jane Coaston
Its refusal to lower interest rates is a mistake.
By Jen Harris
Fishing the ocean’s twilight zone could unleash climate chaos.
By Porter Fox
Responses to a Science Times article. Also: The joys of a foreign language; Donald Trump’s platform changes; a Long Island militia; understanding sloths.
The Democratic Party must join the battle for the hearts and minds of young men.
By David French
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Voters deserve transparency.
By Robert Klitzman
What do conservatives mean when they say that America is not “an idea”? The answer is key to understanding the 2024 election.
By Farah Stockman
Our food supply is more fragile than you think.
By David Wallace-Wells
Harris’s success and setbacks could make her the ideal candidate against a man who admits no mistakes, has no humility and is utterly unrelatable.
By Lydia Polgreen
Until we narrow the scope of what police officers can do, we’ll continue to see officers bring violence into situations that don’t require it.
By Tahir Duckett
She will need a message that reconnects the Democratic Party with the working-class voters it has alienated in recent decades.
By Michael J. Sandel
With the surge of support for her candidacy, you can sense an effort to overcome divisions on the left and to recover the unity of 2020.
By Ross Douthat
Women should bat JD around like a ball of twine.
By Maureen Dowd
Managing artificial intelligence without stifling it will be one of our biggest challenges as we adopt the most revolutionary technology since fire.
By Nicholas Kristof
Readers express their gratitude and frustration.
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Michael February, a boundary-breaking surfer and the first Black South African on the World Surf League Championship Tour, embarks on a transformative journey.
By Sandra Winther and Michael February
Michael February, a boundary-breaking surfer and the first Black South African on the World Surf League Championship Tour, embarks on a transformative journey.
By Sandra Winther
To steer the economy well, a president must see beyond what keeps voters up at night.
By Peter Coy
Readers offer an array of suggestions to the presumptive Democratic nominee. Also: Secret Service women; evangelicals and MAGA.
He has a history of remaking himself to suit the men in his life.
By Michelle Goldberg
Ben Wikler, the chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, discusses whether Kamala Harris can appeal to voters in the swing state.
By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’
Voters need a chance to see how the two candidates handle close public scrutiny in debates, interviews and informal events.
By The Editorial Board
Politics has become so much like entertainment that the first thing we do to make sense of the moment is to test it against a sitcom.
By Armando Iannucci
Let’s talk about the Democrats’ vibe shift.
By Ross Douthat, Carlos Lozada and Lydia Polgreen
We don’t let preadolescent kids work. Why do we let them appear in the most high-pressure athletic contests on a global stage?
By Linda Flanagan
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The former president is praising the era when tariffs fueled the federal budget — and also caused social dislocation and financial instability.
By Steven R. Weisman
The streaming era turned on a fire hose of content that’s drowning viewers. We need TV that feels created by humans, not served up by an algorithm.
By Priyanka Mattoo
Organizers must reduce the event’s carbon footprint.
By Madeleine Orr
It is clear Venezuelans have chosen to oust President Maduro. Whether that will happen remains in question.
By María Corina Machado
The far right wants to turn the clock back on women’s rights.
By Paul Krugman
A strong politician in some ways, but also deeply flawed. Now, she’s ours.
By David Brooks
When it comes to people of mixed racial origin, our assumptions are sometimes strangely at odds with our ideals.
By John McWhorter
When we peer into the soul of America, we should always find both.
By Carlos Lozada
Readers react to Bret Stephens’s criticisms of Kamala Harris. Also: Gail Collins’s loss; barring felons from office; no taxes on tips?
Against the former misogynist in chief, Kamala Harris’s gender is an asset.
By Frank Bruni
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Say what you will about Biden, but he is not a bully.
By Thomas L. Friedman
That nation’s first female Olympian argues that Taliban rule is disqualifying.
By Friba Rezayee and Derek Arthur
The G.O.P. has turned its own ignorance into a point of pride.
By Pamela Paul
She may yet add to her impressive Olympic legacy in Paris. But by changing the way we talk about mental health, Simone Biles has scored a different victory.
By Julie Kliegman
We have the tools we need to stop the disease in 2024. Let’s use them.
By Ina Park
China could seize control of a strategically vital waterway without firing a shot.
By Oriana Skylar Mastro
It’s tempting to salute him for courage, but that would overlook the deception about his deterioration.
By Bret Stephens
One of the great joys of a long marriage is how the personal and pragmatic moosh together.
By Gail Collins
MAGA won’t be content to beat the vice president. It’ll try to destroy her.
By Charles M. Blow
On Sunday the president selflessly let go of the reins but not before ensuring we were in good hands.
By Jeffrey Katzenberg
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Consumer-facing A.I. has become a nuisance. But the big breakthroughs may be on the horizon.
By David Wallace-Wells
Readers object to Republican actions against migrants. Also: “Unpromising” students; romance fiction; sleep and longevity; scaffolding in New York.
In cobbling together a core constituency of voters who are both culturally conservative and financially hard-pressed, they are changing politics.
By Thomas B. Edsall
With Netanyahu’s visit, Congress can’t ignore its role in Gaza’s carnage.
By Megan K. Stack
When political violence is on the rise, accountability at all levels of society is the only way to stop it.
By Alex Kingsbury
The supreme gratification of watching Nancy Pelosi go to work.
By Jessica Bennett
Nicole Allan profiled her in 2019. She explains why 2024 is Harris’s year.
By Nicole Allan and Jillian Weinberger
Coconut trees and Republican missteps.
By Frank Bruni, Mallory McMorrow and Simon Rosenberg
Don’t Take Trump’s Word for It. Check the Data.
By Steven Rattner and Aileen Clarke
The party will pay the price for anointing Kamala Harris.
By Bret Stephens
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Israel’s prime minister addresses Congress when the biggest chance to reshape the Middle East since Camp David in the 1970s is at hand.
By Thomas L. Friedman
I’ve been called a witch, a “nasty woman” and much worse. Harris will face unique additional challenges. But we shouldn’t be afraid.
By Hillary Rodham Clinton
Why the economic impact of immigration is positive.
By Paul Krugman
Conspiracy theorists have been able to fill the information void with their own versions of the truth.
By Gerald Posner and Mark S. Zaid
Readers offer both Democrats and Republicans as well as a retired general as possibilities. Also: A quick race; Trump’s age; Biden and Netanyahu.
She was not set up for success.
By Brent Staples
Being a parent doesn’t make you a better politician.
By Jessica Grose
Sorting out whether she’s an upgrade for Democrats.
By Kristen Soltis Anderson
The Democratic Party has a chance to organize for victory.
Precedent and the rule of law? Not if it gets in the way.
By Jesse Wegman
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She faces a moment different from when she ran for president in the 2020 cycle.
By Nicole Allan
Trump’s consolidated control of the G.O.P. has had the surprising effect of making its policies more, not less, unsettled.
By Julius Krein
What to know about a new U.S. policy.
By Tom Inglesby, Anita Cicero and Marc Lipsitch
The ethical thing to do is to bring mining back and hold it to the highest sustainability standards.
By Stephen Lezak
Turkey’s four million stray dogs are inseparable from the idea of the country itself. But maybe not for much longer.
By Kaya Genc
No, Black workers aren’t being “decimated” by new immigrants.
By Paul Krugman
Suddenly, a campaign that felt like a bleak death march has become fun.
By Michelle Goldberg
As Democratic leaders fall in line behind Harris, her strengths and weaknesses warrant a closer look.
By Ross Douthat, David French, Michelle Goldberg and Lydia Polgreen
Conventional ranking methods are flawed, but there’s a better way.
By Peter Coy
Joe Biden must have accepted that he is yesterday and chose to let the party move on.
By David Paul Kuhn
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Readers differ on whether she is the best Democratic candidate and praise President Biden for putting patriotism over pride.
History will remember what this former lion of the Senate accomplished from the West Wing to improve Black communities across the nation.
By Al Sharpton
The shameless presence of white supremacists here tells us something about the similarity between the politics of the past and our political moment.
By Margaret Renkl
He never surrendered the hope that a frail and fallible world could be made stronger if people could summon enough goodness and courage to build, rather than tear down.
By Jon Meacham
Many party leaders are coalescing behind Kamala Harris, but some veteran Democrats — and many voters — are still grappling with who would fare best against Trump.
By New York Times Opinion
The past month in American politics has been exhausting.
By Katherine Miller
What are the alternatives? And about those Republicans …
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
An early sampling of reactions to the president’s announcement.
The only conversation the Democrats need to be having now is about how to line up behind their vice president.
By Tressie McMillan Cottom
It’s hard to grasp the historical rarity, emotional agony and fundamental humility of what the president just did.
By Frank Bruni
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He did what Trump would never do: place the national interest above his own pride and ambition.
By The Editorial Board
Responses to a column by Bret Stephens. Also: Pharmacy benefit managers; the Supreme Court; a potential second Trump term and the environment.
We need to rethink how we assess and evaluate physical and mental fitness for the presidency.
By Jeffrey Kuhlman
Be skeptical when you hear that this is all a plot.
By Ezra Klein
It was one long exercise in creating memories of a Trump term that never existed.
By David French
He benefited from one of the most powerful forms of affirmative action that elite universities practice.
By Lydia Polgreen
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