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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Feb 20259min
What an F.B.I. Under Patel and Bongino Might Mean for America
President Trump has appointed Dan Bongino — a former U.S. Secret Service agent, right-wing podcaster and an outspoken critic of the F.B.I. — as the agency’s deputy director. In this episode, the Opini...
26 Feb 202512min
Trump’s Bargain With Putin Is ‘Shameful’
Turning our back on Ukraine would only weaken America.The Trump administration may be considering negotiating a peace deal with Russia that would end the war in Ukraine. “No American president in the ...
24 Feb 202527min
Thomas Friedman Has Given Up on Politics — but Not on the World
President Trump appears ready to cut a deal that could end Russia’s war in Ukraine without ever consulting Ukraine. In this episode, the deputy Opinion editor Patrick Healy talks to the Opinion column...
20 Feb 202521min
Trump and Musk, the ‘Co-Presidents’
In this episode, the Opinion editor Aaron Retica and the columnist Jamelle Bouie discuss how President Trump, Elon Musk and their supporters are trying to sidestep Congress and reshape executive power...
19 Feb 202527min
