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I Share a Birthday With President Biden. Ask Me About Our Age.
It isn’t too late to start a constructive conversation about aging and leadership.
By Clark Hoyt
It isn’t too late to start a constructive conversation about aging and leadership.
By Clark Hoyt
In the case of the former president, it is far more dangerous to underestimate than to overestimate his capacity to wreak havoc.
By Thomas B. Edsall
It is no accident that he is talking about immigrants’ “poisoning the blood of our country.”
By Jamelle Bouie
Conservative politics often goes from online to the real world. Jane Coaston interviews Mary Katharine Ham about how conservative influencers have changed.
By Jane Coaston
He is gravitating toward the extreme fringes of the conservative legal world.
By Jay Willis
This time with actual presidents.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
Most of the court’s decisions were principled and sound — most, but unfortunately not all.
By William Baude
Young Latino voters are progressives. But Mr. Biden needs to give them a reason to vote for him.
By Jean Guerrero
The Democratic Party seems to be playing the wait-and-see game, hoping polls give it permission to pull the emergency brake.
By Kristen Soltis Anderson
Christian nationalists aim to impose their beliefs on others.
By Pamela Paul
If casting a ballot is merely expressive, then the same is true of not casting one.
By Matthew Walther
We’re seeing what a modern disinformation operation run by the U.S. looks like. It’s not pretty.
By David Wallace-Wells
The court dismisses an abortion case it now says it should never have accepted, opening a window on internal tensions.
By Linda Greenhouse
Those urging Jill Biden to persuade her husband to drop out may misunderstand the nature of their marriage.
By Michelle Cottle
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Looking at polls beyond the straight horse-race numbers between Biden and Trump offers a glimpse of hope for Democrats.
By Nate Silver
Russia and China have seized on last week’s painful presidential debate to push their narrative that America is in terminal decline.
By Sergey Radchenko
Reflecting on the parallels between campaigns that got caught up in existential threats to the nation.
By Kevin Boyle
The Nixonian theory of presidential power is now enshrined as constitutional law.
By Jamelle Bouie
It is increasingly clear that this court sees itself as something other than a participant in our democratic system.
By Kate Shaw
Big Tech is increasingly safe from government regulation.
By Tim Wu
Instead of delivering a judgment many months ago and allowing the trial to proceed, the justices gave Trump the gift of delay piled upon delay.
By Laurence H. Tribe
Mr. Trump keeps being the person we know — statically supported by 44 to 49 percent of people on any given day, with or without enthusiasm.
By Katherine Miller
An open convention wouldn’t be a disaster for the Democrats. It might even help them win.
By Bill Maher
Americans are owed better from the Democratic Party.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
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On the eve of going to prison, populism’s grand strategist talks about what another Trump presidency would look like and the rise of MAGA-type movements around the world.
By David Brooks
Donald Trump is too grave a threat to America. Democrats need a nominee who can unite the country and articulate a compelling vision for it.
By Thomas L. Friedman
A debate before the debate.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
When the two candidates square off, we can expect disorientation, dizziness and much else.
By Frank Bruni, Matthew Continetti and Olivia Nuzzi
To win on Thursday, Biden will have to override his instincts and defy the constraints and conventions of presidential debates.
By Jeff Shesol
The left’s narcissism of small differences hands mainstream positions to Republicans.
By Pamela Paul
We take a look at J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Doug Burgum, Tim Scott, Elise Stefanik and more possible Republican running mates.
By Ross Douthat, David French, Michelle Goldberg and Bret Stephens
It’s impossible to see the court’s decision upholding a law disarming domestic abusers as anything but an exercise in institutional self-preservation.
By Linda Greenhouse
Both parties are changing shape. What should they do about it?
By Thomas B. Edsall
Universities that cataloged election lies and disinformation are being targeted with the same tactics they sought to uncover.
By Renée DiResta
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The breathless catastrophizing of Trump and his allies is not an expression of ignorance as much as it is a statement of intent.
By Jamelle Bouie
Thursday’s debate is time to preach to the choir.
By Elizabeth Spiers
Going head-to-head with the former president is like juggling nonsense, blather and bluster.
By Hillary Rodham Clinton
I’ve studied voter reaction and opinions about every presidential debate since 1992. This is what to do and not to do.
By Frank Luntz
He has the lowest level of corporate support in the history of the Republican Party.
By Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld
Her political future will be decided in Tuesday’s Republican congressional primary. Is there a limit to MAGA antics?
By Michelle Cottle
It is looking more and more like a project to universalize the un-universalizable.
By Christopher Caldwell
The candidates have no shortage of flaws.
By Ross Douthat
The former president is no more prepared for a second term than he was for a first. He may even be less prepared.
By Jamelle Bouie
Democrats should rally around a bill to overhaul the 1873 anti-vice law.
By Michelle Goldberg
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Rubio would offer Latinos the chance to vote for one of their own to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
By Michael LaRosa
The U.S. bombings that ended World War II didn’t mark the close of atomic warfare. They were just the beginning.
By W.J. Hennigan
They need to stop accepting short-term victories.
By Sarah Isgur
It shouldn’t take so long for the justices to consider an outlandish claim.
By Leah Litman
What does the rise of partisan sectarians portend for the rest of us?
By Thomas B. Edsall
It’s not as if anybody needs a trial to form an opinion about the events of that day.
By Katherine Miller
A Christian nationalist upset causes Republican angst.
By Michelle Goldberg
Jane Coaston interviews the new nominee, Chase Oliver, about his beliefs.
By Jane Coaston
Everything Donald Trump knows about picking a running mate in 2024 he learned while hosting “The Apprentice.”
By Ramin Setoodeh
Jennifer Harris is the intellectual force driving the administration’s approach to trade and economic policies.
By Farah Stockman
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Listening to the stories of voters on their thresholds, we felt their need to trust.
By Lea Page
New challenges to the Supreme Court’s image of probity and detachment seem to keep coming.
By Linda Greenhouse
A look at the senator’s defense of Donald Trump’s conduct after the 2020 election.
By Jamelle Bouie
Hollywood shouldn’t pre-emptively capitulate to the MAGA movement.
By Michelle Goldberg
There cannot be compromise on the question of American democracy.
By Jamelle Bouie
In Cimarron County, Okla., the voters and the community have a lot more going on than just adherence to Trump.
By Scott Ellsworth
His remarks should not have been controversial.
By Marc O. DeGirolami
In a long conversation, the first-term senator from Ohio talks about Trump, populism, the 2020 election, Ukraine and the Republican V.P. slot.
By Ross Douthat
The city was the best-case scenario for congestion pricing. What does it mean that the plan was shelved?
By David Wallace-Wells
It was never going to be easy to get voters to abandon their hero.
By Thomas B. Edsall
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The MAGA movement tears another state Republican Party apart.
By Michelle Goldberg
Here’s looking at you, Hunter.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
Nevadans’ unhappiness with the economy is driving Trump’s support in the state.
By Joe Lombardo
For months now, he has been spinning his tale of tyranny and martyrdom, styling himself as the victim of an administration that plays dirty.
By Brenda Wineapple
Why the MAGA movement loves Mafiosi.
By Michelle Goldberg
This is what happens when you say it’s the legal system that’s indefensible.
By Jamelle Bouie
A congestion pricing plan years in the making was suddenly postponed, threatening mass transit and ensuring continued traffic nightmares.
By Tom Wright and Kate Slevin
A “polluters must pay” law would compensate the state for damages and the costs of preparing for future impacts from warming weather.
By Lee Wasserman
Norms on attendance have changed, but it’s about more than Covid-era school closings.
By David Wallace-Wells
Trump sort of photosynthesizes any and all attention to grow bigger and stronger. What’s Biden to do?
By Frank Bruni, Josh Barro and Olivia Nuzzi
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It’s crazy to think Donald Trump wants to be a felon.
By Jamelle Bouie
The implications for politics reach well beyond deep fakes.
By Thomas B. Edsall
Donald Trump’s second term would be even more corrupt and vindictive than his first.
By Michelle Goldberg
Is it still true that there’s no such thing as bad publicity?
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
The hotter it gets, the more difficult it is for our bodies to cope.
By Jeff Goodell
Two legal experts weigh in.
By New York Times Opinion
The case against him is strong.
By Sarah Isgur
The country’s story of liberation has been both a symbol of hope and a burden. Now it’s time for reality.
By Lydia Polgreen
Times Opinion writers reflect on an extraordinary development in American political history.
By New York Times Opinion
Some people really believe the fraud claims, and people don’t but make it sound as if they did. Both seem likely to be a part of the Trump future.
By Katherine Miller
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The consequences for America’s political future are enormous — and a little unpredictable.
By Thomas B. Edsall
Can liberal justices reclaim judicial restraint?
By Linda Greenhouse
Voters recognize that it’s a misguided attempt to settle the 2024 election.
By Matthew Walther
Currently, the fish are blocked from their most important spawning tributary.
By John Waldman
Does it matter that the courtroom sketch artists drawing his trial are all women?
By Jessica Bennett
Her craziest-clown-at-the-carnival act seems to have descended into a sad clown party of one.
By Michelle Cottle
Alex Jones, Steve Bannon and the left-to-right pipeline.
By Michelle Goldberg
Displaying an upside-down American flag shouldn’t have happened.
By Michael Ponsor
Once you start talk about immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country,” what comes next?
By Jamelle Bouie
Americans have traded their faith in the American dream for pretty much everybody else’s sour, populist mood.
By David Brooks
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Trump has changed everything and nothing.
By Thomas B. Edsall
It is comforting to think that the red meat is for someone else.
By Jamelle Bouie
He could convert the United States from a dominant economic and military power into something he purports to abhor — a global loser.
By Jacob Heilbrunn
Justice Alito and Senator Menendez have one thing in common.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
As provocative as the testimony has been, this case may turn on something a great deal more mundane.
By Jeffrey Toobin
The Grand Canyon State is up for grabs — and so is its political future.
By Tom Zoellner
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