Measles, MAHA Moms and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
A measles outbreak in West Texas has claimed two lives, and President Trump’s secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is spreading false claims about the disease and the vaccine...
17 Maalis 202517min
They Saved Taxpayers Billions. Trump Fired Them Anyway.
Inspectors general are our government watchdogs. They root out corruption and check for fraud and inefficiencies — all things President Trump has claimed to want to do. And yet, when he took office, h...
13 Maalis 202510min
'Is the Destruction the Point?': Three Opinion Writers on Trump's First 50 Days
President Donald Trump is about halfway through his first 100 days in office. In this episode of The Opinions, Patrick Healy talks with the columnist Michelle Goldberg and contributor Frank Bruni abou...
12 Maalis 202530min
I’m a Transgender Colonel. Trump Wants Me Out.
Time is running out for transgender service members in the U.S. military. The Trump administration has put in motion plans to identify and remove transgender troops, with Secretary of Defense Pete Heg...
10 Maalis 202521min
David Brooks on Why the Democrats Are Losing to Trump
The columnist David Brooks joins Patrick Healy to take stock of President Trump’s fifth address to Congress, to analyze the Democrats’ response, and to discuss where Americans who care about moral lea...
6 Maalis 202525min
Elon Musk and the Useless Spending-Cut Theater of DOGE
As a fiscal conservative, the columnist David French would normally be excited about a Department of Government Efficiency and the opportunity to rein in spending. But Elon Musk’s approach to cost cut...
5 Maalis 202516min
What Man's Man Politics Is Doing to America
President Trump’s outsize performance of masculinity has won him attention, elections and the support of manosphere influencers like Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan. In this episode of “The Opinions,” the d...
3 Maalis 202529min
The Most Important Lesson in Sex Ed Isn’t Actually Sex
When Hillary Frank took her middle-school-age daughter to see “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.,” she was surprised to learn that the fictional Margaret had more sex education than her daughter. ...
27 Helmi 20259min
