George Clooney: I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee.
I saw Biden three weeks ago at my fund-raiser for him. It’s devastating to say it, but he is not the same man he was, and he won’t win this fall.
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I saw Biden three weeks ago at my fund-raiser for him. It’s devastating to say it, but he is not the same man he was, and he won’t win this fall.
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In the case of the former president, it is far more dangerous to underestimate than to overestimate his capacity to wreak havoc.
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To make sense of a decaying America, Thomas L. Friedman talks to a trusted friend about the mangrove tree.
By Thomas L. Friedman, Jillian Weinberger and
The political journalist Elaina Plott Calabro traces the political trajectory of the vice president — and why her 2016 image might be just right for 2024.
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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.
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President Biden, Voters Want Change
Election results in Britain and France show that voters can get behind liberal candidates as long as they’re fresh faces.
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Becoming a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Is Like Getting Into Harvard
On the promise and perils of elite athletic institutions.
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When Progressive Ideals Become a Luxury
On my journey from foster care to Yale, I developed a concept I call luxury beliefs.
By Rob Henderson, Lindsay Crouse and
Your Driving App Is Leading You Astray
Programmed to find the fastest route without consideration of literally anything else, driving apps endanger and infuriate us on a remarkably regular basis.
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Election results in Britain and France show that voters can get behind liberal candidates as long as they’re fresh faces.
By Nicholas Kristof
The heat has come for Americans — and everyone else, too.
By David Wallace-Wells
Readers react to an editorial urging party leaders to do so. Also: The debate over sex testing at the Olympics.
I saw Biden three weeks ago at my fund-raiser for him. It’s devastating to say it, but he is not the same man he was, and he won’t win this fall.
By George Clooney
On the promise and perils of elite athletic institutions.
By Jessica Grose
Kristen Soltis Anderson on the conservative case for the procedure.
By Kristen Soltis Anderson and Jillian Weinberger
For many young Iranians, as long as an octogenarian cleric and his allies rule over their country, the country can’t be free.
By Holly Dagres
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
On my journey from foster care to Yale, I developed a concept I call luxury beliefs.
By Rob Henderson, Lindsay Crouse and Kevin Oliver
Programmed to find the fastest route without consideration of literally anything else, driving apps endanger and infuriate us on a remarkably regular basis.
By Julia Angwin
On my journey from foster care to Yale, I developed a concept I call luxury beliefs.
By Rob Henderson
The U.S. national security adviser argues that America’s allies in NATO are pulling their weight and paying their fair share of the costs of a common defense.
By Jake Sullivan
Both men running for president are unfit for the job. One is a danger to our country.
By Thomas L. Friedman
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The president is starting to act like the predecessor he fought against.
By Bret Stephens
What facts do different stories explain?
By Paul Krugman
Readers lament and support the president’s refusal to heed calls to step aside. Also: Televised therapy; Supreme Court rulings.
There’s nothing particularly “moderate” about the new Republican platform.
By Jamelle Bouie
It’s getting harder to ignore the charismatic politicians who have been trying to support Biden.
By Mara Gay
It is no accident that he is talking about immigrants’ “poisoning the blood of our country.”
By Jamelle Bouie
The Times Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie walks through the risks of a brokered convention.
By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’
A fiction writer challenges an A.I. chatbot to a duel.
By Curtis Sittenfeld
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
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Through a stunning act of collective responsibility, the far right has been stopped.
By David Broder
It’s essential that NATO members agree on how they see the war in Ukraine.
By Jaroslaw Kuisz and Karolina Wigura
The longer Democrats delay in getting Biden to stand down, the harder it will be to replace him.
By The Editorial Board
Biden has done a great job. Now he can serve America by stepping aside.
By Paul Krugman
The party needs a new presidential nominee and can’t rig things for any one candidate.
By James Carville
Readers discuss a column by Pamela Paul. Also: Criticism of The Times’s Biden-Trump coverage; why voting matters; helping migrants in New York.
This time with actual presidents.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
Justice Amy Coney Barrett has found her voice.
By Stephen I. Vladeck
After we survived one round of economic Russian roulette, Donald Trump is asking us to take another spin, only this time with many more bullets in the chamber.
By Robert E. Rubin and Kenneth I. Chenault
There’s a better way to think about gender identity in all of us.
By Jack Turban
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An illness led Stephen Smith to study why America has so few elevators. What he learned explains why housing costs are so high.
By Stephen Smith
It takes too many studies for the government to do the right thing.
By Robinson Meyer
The White House desperately tries to take word salad off the menu.
By Maureen Dowd
Readers take issue with advice in a guide to party etiquette. Also: Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump; occupational therapy for older New Yorkers.
To find a new nominee, Democrats need to hold a real contest.
By Ezra Klein
In both Trump cases the liberal dissenters are more originalist than the conservative majority.
By David French
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