Have We Turned Personality Into Diagnosis?
Influencers on social media are sharing content that claims to help followers self-diagnose complex medical conditions ranging from A.D.H.D. to autism. And the data reveals that the effect of self-dia...
5 Aug 38min
The Working Class Is Fleeing Trump
What have Democrats learned from this season of primaries so far? “Their voters are so much angrier than I think they realized,” says the Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie in this week’s politics round ...
1 Aug 34min
The Silicon Valley Health Trend Making Doctors Nervous
Americans have spent billions of dollars tracking themselves: their steps, their blood oxygen saturation, their sleep cycles, their glucose levels. Is any of this data making us healthier? That’s the ...
29 Jul 37min
The New Tactic Trump Thinks Will Rally Voters
The Iran war isn’t going well for President Trump. The midterms are approaching. What’s a desperate president to do? Turn to Communism. This week the Opinion national politics correspondent Michelle C...
25 Jul 40min
Gen Z-ers Are Ditching Sex. They Might Be On to Something.
Data shows that Gen Z is in a sex recession. Technology, #MeToo and a growing emphasis on platonic relationships are reshaping how many people think about sex. As anxiety grows over falling birthrates...
22 Jul 43min
The ‘Devil’s Bargain’ at the Heart of American Politics Now
This week, “The Opinions” politics round table wrestles with the art of political compromise. Did Lindsey Graham ingratiate himself with Donald Trump to protect Ukraine — and was it worth it? Should t...
18 Jul 31min
Is This the Fastest Opinion Shift in American Politics?
Seventy-one percent of Americans say they don’t want an A.I. data center built close to where they live. Why? In this conversation, the Opinion writer David Wallace-Wells and the contributing writer R...
15 Jul 32min
‘Platner Is Vile.’ McConnell Is Missing. Welcome to American Politics.
The word of the week for politics is “humiliation.” At least according to the Opinion contributing writer David Wallace-Wells, who joins the Opinion columnist David French and the national politics wr...
11 Jul 45min
