Esther Perel on Why A.I. Intimacy Feels Safe but Isn’t Real
To love is to be human. Or is it? As human-chatbot relationships become more common, the Times Opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman talks to the psychotherapist Esther Perel about what really defin...
28 Jan 30min
Tom Friedman: Minneapolis, Alex Pretti and a Democracy at Risk
The Times Opinion columnist Thomas L. Friedman grew up in Minnesota and spent much of his career traveling to the Middle East. In the aftermath of the shooting death of Alex Pretti, and as the Trump a...
27 Jan 27min
ICE Is Splitting America in Two
President Trump’s vision of executive power is reshaping America and the world. For “The Opinions,” Aaron Retica, an editor in Opinion, sits down with the Opinion writers and lawyers Emily Bazelon and...
24 Jan 41min
Hello, Greenland. Goodbye, Checks and Balances.
President Trump has changed America — and the world — in ways both large and small in the first year of his second term. In a live event recorded at the Library Foundation of Los Angeles on Tuesday, t...
22 Jan 40min
Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?
The midterms are coming, and President Trump is already sounding the alarm. For this week’s round table, the columnists David French and Jamelle Bouie and the Opinion national politics writer Michelle...
17 Jan 40min
A Venezuelan Economist on What Trump Gets Wrong About Venezuela
Nicolás Maduro may be out, but Venezuela’s Chavista regime still holds power. Meanwhile, the opposition leader and Nobel Prize winner María Corina Machado is fighting to remain relevant. She’s schedul...
14 Jan 21min
The Internet May Look Different After You Listen to This
A.I. slop is taking over the internet. As the line between human-made and machine-made art blurs — and real and fake images collapse into one another — how should we think about culture now? On “The O...
13 Jan 34min
From ICE to Foreign Quagmires: Escalation Everywhere
President Trump began 2026 by invading an autonomous nation and capturing its leader. The Opinion politics writer Michelle Cottle talks to the columnists David French and Carlos Lozada about the ICE s...
10 Jan 40min
