Was 2025 the End of ‘Teflon Trump’?
As a tumultuous year comes to an end, the New York Times Opinion politics writer Michelle Cottle talks to the columnists David French and Jamelle Bouie about the year that was — the damage done by the...
20 Dec 202533min
David Brooks, E.J. Dionne and Robert Siegel Take Stock of 2025
The Conversation convenes this week with the Opinion columnist David Brooks, the contributing Opinion writer E.J. Dionne Jr. and the former host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” Robert Siegel to unpac...
18 Dec 202529min
America's Next Story: Bret Stephens
The Republican Party’s wholesale embrace of Donald Trump has left traditional conservatives like the Times Opinion columnist Bret Stephens without a political home. But what happens after Trump leaves...
15 Dec 202529min
Republican Women vs. the G.O.P.
The Republican Party has a misogyny problem. Congressional members like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace have been pushing past their party’s patriarchal views and fighting back. ...
13 Dec 202541min
Tom Friedman Says We’re in a New Epoch. David Brooks Has Questions.
We’re living in a strange moment. According to the columnist Thomas L. Friedman, it’s a completely new era, called the Polycene — one in which everything moves faster and science, technology and polit...
12 Dec 202532min
M. Gessen and Michelle Goldberg on How to Resist
So you disagree with the direction in which your country is headed. What’s a moral person to do? That’s the question the columnists M. Gessen and Michelle Goldberg recently set out to answer in their ...
9 Dec 202533min
Republicans Are Quietly Pushing Back Against Trump
President Trump’s popularity appears to be slipping in the Republican Party and with the American people. This week Republicans eked out a victory in a Tennessee special election, but only after natio...
6 Dec 202538min
What Is Going on With Trump?
The Opinion columnist Bret Stephens and the contributing Opinion writer Frank Bruni return for another edition of The Conversation. This week, they are joined by the Opinion editor Aaron Retica, who f...
4 Dec 202536min
