A Punk Survival Guide for Gen Z
The writer and performer John Cameron Mitchell has a message for members of Generation Z: Stop playing it safe and embrace punk. Mitchell, who wrote “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” sits down with Opinion...
4 Kesä 202517min
Why Politics Feels So Cruel Right Now
In this episode, the Times Opinion politics correspondent Michelle Cottle speaks to the columnists Jamelle Bouie and David French about the rise of “toxic empathy” and how the right has turned compass...
2 Kesä 202534min
Tom Friedman: Will Israel’s War Ever End?
The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has spent decades covering Israel and the Middle East. For this episode of “The Opinions,” the deputy editor of Opinion, Patrick Healy, speaks to Friedman ...
29 Touko 202522min
How to Turn the Middle Against Trump
In this episode, David Leonhardt, an Opinion editorial director, asks Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan why the Democratic Party has lost so many voters without four-year college degrees, what Americ...
28 Touko 202529min
The Good News About a Bad G.P.A.
The Opinion contributing writer Megan Stack has a gift for high school graduates who struggled academically or who feel like life is passing them by. In this audio essay, Stack lays out an optimistic ...
23 Touko 20258min
Are We in a New Era of Presidential Regalism?
Who knew what when? Two new books paint a damning portrait of the Democratic Party and what some of its members knew about President Joe Biden’s deteriorating health during the 2024 campaign. On “The ...
22 Touko 202527min
Michelle Goldberg: ‘More Democrats Need to Be Doing This’
In this episode, David Leonhardt, the editorial director of the editorial board, asks the Opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg what Democrats are doing right, what they’re doing wrong and what they sho...
20 Touko 202526min
Trump’s Era of International Bullying
With President Trump meeting with heads of state in the Middle East this week, the Times Opinion senior international editor Krista Mahr sat down with the columnists Lydia Polgreen and Nick Kristof to...
15 Touko 202527min
