New York Times Opinion
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- ”While it is a familiar warning from civil libertarians that surveillance tools introduced in one narrow context will quickly be deployed in other, more worrying ways, immigration agents appear already to have made that jump,” David Wallace-Wells writes.
- “I have sustained many injuries and threats,” writes Sheryl Ostroff, a nurse on strike over workplace safety. “We need hospitals to do their part to create safer conditions for patients and staff, because nurses can’t take this any longer.”
- “We do not grow as a nation by forgetting,” Martha Weinar writes in a letter to The Times. “We learn by remembering — by confronting the reality of slavery and understanding how hard-won progress emerged from that injustice."
- In the face of ICE raids around public schools in Minnesota and Maine, “everyday people who otherwise describe themselves as not especially political are stepping up for their fellow parents and children,” Jessica Grose writes.
- “The ‘Melania’ movie is an instant classic — of opacity, of superficiality, of obliviousness. And that might be the point,” writes our columnist Carlos Lozada.
- “Laughter and humor are fundamental to how babies learn about and participate in the world,” the developmental psychologist Gina Mireault writes.
- “A hallmark of the president’s language since he stepped onto the national political stage is that some Americans are just a little more American than others, and that this is a function of race, nationality and, above all, allegiance to Trump,” writes our columnist Jamelle Bouie.
- How has A.I. shaped employment so far? “It’s been only three years since the mass introduction of this technology, and it takes firms — and all of us! — time to understand how to deploy it in ways that are going to be transformative,” Natasha Sarin says in a round table discussion.
- Liam Ramos’ classmates miss him, so they decided to write letters to the ICE agents who took him. “Dear ICE,” one student wrote, “You are scaring schools, people and the world.”
- Whatever the death toll from protests in Iran proves to be, Scott Anderson writes, the Iranian regime “may have carried out one of the worst state-sanctioned massacres of unarmed civilians anywhere in nearly a half century in order to survive.”
- The Trump administration’s efforts to remove immigration protections for many Haitians has been put on pause. “The relief that many Haitians here feel is tempered by an omnipresent dread,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes from Springfield, Ohio.
- “As our laws have become less moralistic and more libertarian, addictive behaviors have increased,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes about vices like gambling, drugs and pornography. “An amoral understanding of liberalism has yielded, in a pretty direct way, to a more immoral society.”
- “As the early swooning over Newsom suggests, some voters’ hearts are fluttering over the prospect of his candidacy” for president, our columnist Bret Stephens writes. “Democrats who take the 2028 stakes seriously should stick to just using their brain.”
- In the fight against ICE, Roxane Gay writes, “we don’t have to compromise ourselves, our values or our sense of justice to fight back.”
- “A.I. social media ought to be thought of more as a form of science fiction and storytelling rather than as a demonstration of collective planning and coordination by intelligent parties,” writes Leif Weatherby.
- The elderly population is on the rise, bringing the United States' caregiving crisis into sharp focus. On this episode of "The Opinions," Michelle Cottle discusses the political challenges of long-term care and the burdens faced by caregivers.
- “We once had a president who avowed, ‘I am not a crook,’ and now we have a president who is demonstrably delusional and will use all the powers of the presidency to act on those delusions,” David Simpson writes in a letter to The times.
- A court case over the fate of the Colorado River “could drag on for a decade or longer. We don’t have nearly that much time to prevent catastrophic water shortages,” Sammy Roth writes.
- “Periods of backlash feature very intense politics around who has power and how they use it, and the ways that is presented politically are very in flux,” writes Julia Azari about President Trump's second term.
- This week from Thomas B. Edsall, an experiment of sorts: an outline of items in a hypothetical 2028 Democratic Party platform designed to restore the party’s appeal to centrist working- and middle-class voters.
- Trump’s approach to foreign policy is not just chaos or an updated version of 19th-century great-power competition, write @segoddard.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social . “He is pursuing something more out of the 16th-century, what we call neoroyalist international politics."
- U.S. elections remain both commonplace and miraculous, the editorial board writes. “This country should be proud that it can feel so routine for a citizen to drop a ballot in the mailbox or walk down the street to cast a vote. In 2026, we should guard that tradition.”
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- “Last week the U.S. dollar slid to a four-year low,” writes Jason Furman. It has risen a little since then, and “that could be good for the U.S. economy, though probably not in the way Mr. Trump wants.”
- How can we be in community across difference? On this week’s episode of “The Ezra Klein Show,” Priya Parker, the author of “The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters,” talks about how gathering together can play a role in strengthening democracy.
- “End the spectacle of vicarious violence. Abolish ICE,” our columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom writes.
- Xi Jinping “would be free to squeeze Taiwan even harder, backed by a regenerated Chinese military leadership that has been conditioned to execute — not question — his orders,” writes John Garnaut.
- “A lot of Americans are tired of being pitted against their neighbors and hunger to be brought together for a common purpose; they want common-sense solutions and to preserve our most cherished public institutions,” our columnist Thomas Friedman writes.
- “I look forward to attending more performances at the Kennedy Center once our president gets his hands (and name) off it,” Joel Fishman writes in a letter to The Times.
- “We urge the Department of Homeland Security to adhere to the Constitution and end the practice of conducting forcible entry into homes without judicial warrants,” six former DHS general counsels write.
- As society wrestles with whether A.I. will lead us into a better future or catastrophic one, Times Opinion turned to eight experts for their predictions on where A.I. may go in the next five years. Here are their visions:
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- “Climate change is making extreme weather like heat waves and ice storms more extreme,” Margaret Renkl writes. “With U.S. policy now undermining international climate goals, it’s clear that we’ll be needing each other more than ever.”
- “The risk of donating a kidney is not zero, but it was minuscule versus the benefit of extending another person’s life by years, if not decades,” writes German Lopez.
- “An executive strongman is scary and can do much damage,” write Jack Goldsmith and Samuel Moyn. “But without a broader consensus in Congress and the nation, which Roosevelt had and Mr. Trump lacks, he cannot transform the country.”
- “During Trump’s first administration, he had minders,” writes Frank Bruni. “For his second, he wanted a pep squad.” nyti.ms/4c6Rta5
- "This is tyranny," Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s attorney general, told our columnist Lydia Polgreen as she was reporting from the Minneapolis. "We now don’t have to speculate as to what American fascism looks like. It’s right outside the door."
- The Recording Academy often misses the moment when it comes to the Grammy Awards. Its members were late to recognize rap, among other oversights. Four Opinion writers dissect the evening.
- “There is no indication that the Kennedy Center had any issues with those specific works and themes, but depriving the opera company of the resources to produce them rejects them by other means,” Marc Scorca writes.
- “The fact that American censors are working with greater zealotry than their Chinese peers is truly sobering,” Zhiyi Yang writes in a letter to The Times.
- “It is well documented that strongmen are at their most dangerous when they feel threatened,” Ruth Ben-Ghiat writes. “Americans should brace for heightened militarized domestic repression and more imperialist aggression abroad.”
- “So long as the president keeps forcing grieving families to rebut government smear campaigns, it’s hard to take seriously any talk of ‘turning down the temperature,’” writes David Litt.
- “The Department of Homeland Security and this administration cannot be trusted to ensure that anyone — including children — is treated with the basic human dignity that law and morality require,” Elora Mukherjee writes.
- “This is a presidency that is, by any measure, failing,” our columnist Ezra Klein writes.
- “When I think back to the days and weeks before Jan. 6, 2021, one thing that’s clear is that many of us suffered from a failure of imagination,” our columnist David French writes.
- “The real litmus test, of course, is whether Mr. Warsh will do the president’s bidding,” Catherine Rampell writes of President Trump’s recently announced pick for the next chair of the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh.
- Rahm Emanuel's “combination of policy talk, moral reflection and candid critiques of recent Democratic fixations is distinctive, and there’s impressive political savvy in what he foregrounds and how he frames it,” argues Frank Bruni.
- “Whom we as health care professionals call difficult often has more to do with us and with how we tolerate discomfort than it does with the people themselves,” writes Dr. Daniela Lamas.
- Kevin Warsh, President Trump’s nominee for chair of the Federal Reserve, “could be swayed by the political atmosphere in a way that threatens the central bank’s independence,” Natasha Sarin says in a round table discussion about the future of the Fed.
- “The White House is caught in a spiral of its own making,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. “The more it tries to repress and dominate its opponents, the more it loses ground with the public, and the more it loses ground, the more it leans on force and threats of force to save face.”
- “We are now into the third generation of Americans whose exposure to classical music has been minimal,” Anthony Rudel writes in a letter to The Times. We need to “expose audiences of all ages to the benefits of classical music, with the intent of making it accessible, fun and entertaining.”
- “Anyone taking the temperature of the A.I. industry would have detected a modest cooling of expectations at times in 2025, a sense that maybe the trendline toward superintelligence wasn’t simply going vertical,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes. But in early 2026, “we are back in the hype cycle.”
