Trump Won’t Change the Fact That America Needs Immigrants
Donald Trump has promised to severely curtail legal and illegal immigration as he takes office for the second time. In this episode of “The Opinions,” the writer Binyamin Appelbaum argues that while t...
20 Jan 20259min
This Jail in Rural Maine Is a Model for Treating Opioid Addiction
Maine has one of the highest rates of opioid use disorder in the nation. But a program at a rural Maine jail initiated by an addiction medicine specialist, Alane O’Connor, is offering hope and saving ...
16 Jan 202513min
The Home Insurance L.A. — and America — Needs
The Los Angeles wildfires offer a stark reminder that we no longer live in an era of reliable home insurance. An exodus of insurance companies from disaster-prone areas has put the American dream of h...
15 Jan 20259min
How Trump’s ‘Favorite President’ Can Prepare Us for His Next Term
Argentina’s head of state, Javier Milei, is the latest inspiration for Donald Trump and his supporters, including Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. As Trump prepares to return to the White House, the Tim...
14 Jan 20259min
David French on the Case for Banning TikTok
The Supreme Court seems ready to uphold the law that would ban TikTok unless the app’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells it to a U.S. buyer. The Opinion columnist David French talks with the po...
13 Jan 202517min
When We Face the End of Life, ‘It’s Not Sadness We Should Fear. It’s Regret.’
Sarah Wildman lost her 14-year-old daughter, Orli, to cancer in March 2023. Before she died, Orli had questions about the end of her life, but as Wildman explains in this episode, that conversation wa...
9 Jan 202517min
A Deceptively Simple Way to Rebuild Trust in Scary Times
As the world grows increasingly fractured, taking the time to engage with strangers has become even more important. The artist and graphic journalist Wendy MacNaughton has created a simple but powerfu...
8 Jan 20257min
There’s More to Wine Than Just a Cancer Warning
Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general, recently recommended that cancer warnings be included on all alcohol products. The author and wine enthusiast Boris Fishman argues that doing so would place all form...
7 Jan 20258min
