Sorry, Republicans, Trump Doesn’t Love You Back
This week, the YOLO Republican caucus takes center stage — YOLO, of course, standing for “you only live once.” On “The Opinions,” the Times contributor Robert Siegel argues that senators like Thom Til...
30 Touko 27min
America Has a Masculinity Crisis
Young men are in crisis. While the left tells men to stay in their lane, members of the manosphere and the far right are welcoming them with open arms. In a conversation about masculinity in a post-#M...
29 Touko 40min
MAHA Is No Longer Useful to Trump
Is the MAHA movement’s political influence waning? On “The Opinions,” the Times Opinion science editor Alexandra Sifferlin, the columnist and sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom and the Opinion scienc...
21 Touko 58min
What Silicon Valley Is Coming for Next
Silicon Valley wants to be the best tastemaker in town. Artificial intelligence is changing how we decide what to wear and read and how we interact with pop culture. The Times Opinion culture editor N...
20 Touko 31min
The Great Political Realignment of 2026
The Supreme Court’s recent decision on the Voting Rights Act has supercharged a redistricting frenzy in states across the country. The Times Opinion contributors Robert Siegel and E.J. Dionne and the ...
16 Touko 37min
How Strongmen Like Trump Get in Your Head
The columnist M. Gessen has spent most of their career reporting on and writing about authoritarianism in Russia. They now cover President Trump and the MAGA movement in the United States. In this con...
14 Touko 35min
High Gas Prices Are Just the Beginning
On this episode of “The Opinions,” the Opinion writers David Wallace-Wells and Michelle Cottle join the columnist David French to discuss why this “especially messy” war of choice could reshape the gl...
9 Touko 37min
