Is the Ukraine War the Next Afghanistan?
After speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, Donald President Trump says Moscow plans to retaliate against Ukraine for the country’s drone strike over the weekend. Despite Presid...
5 Juni 202527min
A Punk Survival Guide for Gen Z
The writer and performer John Cameron Mitchell has a message for members of Generation Z: Stop playing it safe and embrace punk. Mitchell, who wrote “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” sits down with Opinion...
4 Juni 202517min
Why Politics Feels So Cruel Right Now
In this episode, the Times Opinion politics correspondent Michelle Cottle speaks to the columnists Jamelle Bouie and David French about the rise of “toxic empathy” and how the right has turned compass...
2 Juni 202534min
Tom Friedman: Will Israel’s War Ever End?
The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has spent decades covering Israel and the Middle East. For this episode of “The Opinions,” the deputy editor of Opinion, Patrick Healy, speaks to Friedman ...
29 Maj 202522min
How to Turn the Middle Against Trump
In this episode, David Leonhardt, an Opinion editorial director, asks Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan why the Democratic Party has lost so many voters without four-year college degrees, what Americ...
28 Maj 202529min
The Good News About a Bad G.P.A.
The Opinion contributing writer Megan Stack has a gift for high school graduates who struggled academically or who feel like life is passing them by. In this audio essay, Stack lays out an optimistic ...
23 Maj 20258min
Are We in a New Era of Presidential Regalism?
Who knew what when? Two new books paint a damning portrait of the Democratic Party and what some of its members knew about President Joe Biden’s deteriorating health during the 2024 campaign. On “The ...
22 Maj 202527min
Michelle Goldberg: ‘More Democrats Need to Be Doing This’
In this episode, David Leonhardt, the editorial director of the editorial board, asks the Opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg what Democrats are doing right, what they’re doing wrong and what they sho...
20 Maj 202526min
