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269 episodes transcribedIn his HBO special, “Just for Us,” the comedian Alex Edelman explores his Jewish identity and whiteness in an unusual way: attending a neo-Nazi meetin...
On this episode, Patrick Healy and David Leonhardt discuss President Trump’s attempts to remake higher education and argue that higher education shoul...
In this episode, the New York Times Opinion columnist David French breaks down the security concerns behind the Trump administration’s military discus...
More than two months into his second term, President Donald Trump is testing the limits of the U.S. Constitution. But which of his executive actions a...
President Trump has been operating with complete impunity and disregard for American institutions. In this episode, the Times Opinion deputy editor Pa...
What does it look like when some of the world’s richest men withdraw assistance for the world’s poorest women and children? After Elon Musk claimed no...
A measles outbreak in West Texas has claimed two lives, and President Trump’s secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is spread...
Inspectors general are our government watchdogs. They root out corruption and check for fraud and inefficiencies — all things President Trump has clai...
President Donald Trump is about halfway through his first 100 days in office. In this episode of The Opinions, Patrick Healy talks with the columnist...
Time is running out for transgender service members in the U.S. military. The Trump administration has put in motion plans to identify and remove tran...
The columnist David Brooks joins Patrick Healy to take stock of President Trump’s fifth address to Congress, to analyze the Democrats’ response, and t...
As a fiscal conservative, the columnist David French would normally be excited about a Department of Government Efficiency and the opportunity to rein...
President Trump’s outsize performance of masculinity has won him attention, elections and the support of manosphere influencers like Andrew Tate and J...
When Hillary Frank took her middle-school-age daughter to see “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.,” she was surprised to learn that the fictional M...
President Trump has appointed Dan Bongino — a former U.S. Secret Service agent, right-wing podcaster and an outspoken critic of the F.B.I. — as the ag...
Turning our back on Ukraine would only weaken America.The Trump administration may be considering negotiating a peace deal with Russia that would end...
President Trump appears ready to cut a deal that could end Russia’s war in Ukraine without ever consulting Ukraine. In this episode, the deputy Opinio...
In this episode, the Opinion editor Aaron Retica and the columnist Jamelle Bouie discuss how President Trump, Elon Musk and their supporters are tryin...
Kirk Wallace Johnson served with U.S.A.I.D. in Baghdad and Fallujah. When he returned to the United States, he spent much of his career helping thousa...
It’s Valentine’s Day, and if you celebrate, the chances of giving or receiving a bouquet of flowers is high. But have you considered the environmental...
