The Great Political Realignment of 2026
The Supreme Court’s recent decision on the Voting Rights Act has supercharged a redistricting frenzy in states across the country. The Times Opinion contributors Robert Siegel and E.J. Dionne and the ...
16 Maj 37min
How Strongmen Like Trump Get in Your Head
The columnist M. Gessen has spent most of their career reporting on and writing about authoritarianism in Russia. They now cover President Trump and the MAGA movement in the United States. In this con...
14 Maj 35min
High Gas Prices Are Just the Beginning
On this episode of “The Opinions,” the Opinion writers David Wallace-Wells and Michelle Cottle join the columnist David French to discuss why this “especially messy” war of choice could reshape the gl...
9 Maj 37min
Justice Neil Gorsuch on the ‘Miracle’ of Agreement on the Court
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, the columnist David French sits down with a fellow originalist, the Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch. The two discuss the radical nature of the...
6 Maj 28min
In a Small Iowa Town, a Solution to a National Crisis
As a new flood season approaches, many Americans remain haunted by the last. Families across the country are still in mourning months after the waters receded from places like the Texas Hill Country, ...
1 Maj 17min
Trump’s True Deal-Making Abilities, Revealed
President Trump, the self-proclaimed master of deal making, is struggling to end his war with Iran. This week, the contributing Opinion writers E.J. Dionne Jr. and Robert Siegel reunite with the Opini...
25 Apr 33min
‘The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?’
When does shoplifting become an act of political protest? The Opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman is calling this microlooting, and it describes the phenomenon of people stealing small things from...
22 Apr 35min
From Hungary to the Pope, the Right’s Very Bad Week
Despite Vice President JD Vance’s best efforts, Hungary ousted the illiberal authoritarian Viktor Orban this week. As the columnist David French argues, Orbanism was “intellectual Trumpism,” and the p...
18 Apr 36min
