Are Trump’s Tariffs Trying to Solve a Problem That Doesn’t Exist?
Jason Furman, an economist who was an adviser to President Barack Obama, believes that trade is an unmitigated good — a rarely heard opinion on the right or the left these days. In this episode of “Th...
12 Touko 202523min
How Three Democrats Who Saved the Party Before Would Do It Again
In the late 1980s, the Democratic Party was trying to figure out how to how to remake itself after having lost four of the five previous presidential elections. That’s when an upstart group of Democra...
8 Touko 202516min
Kristi Noem and the MAGA Beauty Aesthetic
From done-up hair to heavily applied makeup, conservative women — particularly those in President Trump’s orbit — deploy a specific aesthetic to signify their politics. Women like Homeland Security Se...
7 Touko 202519min
Why a Good Political Argument Is Like Good Sex
The Conversation has been a staple of The Times’s Opinion pages since 2017. But after eight years, the weekly dialogue between the liberal columnist Gail Collins and her conservative colleague Bret St...
5 Touko 202526min
‘Donald Trump Will Not Be President Four Years Hence’
In a live event recorded at the Brooklyn Public Library on Tuesday, Opinion’s deputy editor, Patrick Healy, was joined by the columnists Michelle Goldberg, M. Gessen and Bret Stephens to discuss how P...
1 Touko 202542min
Maureen Dowd and Carlos Lozada on 100 Days of Trump’s ‘Fake Reality’
In this episode, the Opinion deputy editor Patrick Healy is joined by the columnists Maureen Dowd and Carlos Lozada to dissect the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term and prepare for what’...
30 Huhti 202529min
Tariffs Could Ruin My Small Business
President Trump’s back and forth on tariffs is causing instability and uncertainty across industries, and some of the hardest hit have been small businesses. On this episode, the entrepreneur Yair Rei...
28 Huhti 202512min
Lydia Polgreen on What’s Missing in Our Conversation About Immigration
In this episode, the deputy Opinion editor Patrick Healy talks to the columnist Lydia Polgreen about the global panic around migration, and what President Trump’s efforts to curb it mean for the Unite...
24 Huhti 202529min
