The president is getting a lesson in the limits of grade inflation.

The columnist believes America’s real political contest is in the center.

Remind me never to listen to what they are saying online about me.

The first rule of dark money is to quit blabbing about it. Did they think people would thank them for it?

The first rule of dark money is to quit blabbing about it. Did they think people would thank them for it?

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An explanation for the sharp decline in President Trump’s approval ratings.

The president continues to brush off an issue that he said he would solve in his first months in office. Some Democrats say he is making the same mistake as his predecessor.

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Unlike during his last time in the White House, people now disapprove of Trump because of the economy, not in spite of it.

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Unlike during his last time in the White House, people now disapprove of Trump because of the economy, not in spite of it.

“I’m not going to make any predictions, but I will say it feels as if right now is the most popular he’s going to be over the next year,” the columnist Jamelle Bouie predicts of Trump.

On “The Opinions,” the columnist Jamelle Bouie argues that the president is randomly blowing up boats in the Caribbean — what Bouie calls “criminal murder.”

Will the president soon wish he hadn’t run for a second term?

Will the president soon wish he hadn’t run for a second term?

Rare pushback from his party and troubling poll numbers reflect the newly precarious situation in which Trump finds himself.

Bret Stephens, Frank Bruni and Aaron Retica on the gap between the president’s interests and what matters to Americans.

It may be tempting to memory hole what happened in Gaza. That would only compound the mistake of ignoring, or rationalizing, an intolerable reality.

Apocalyptic predictions may actually serve as comforting fantasies, at which point our future freakouts become an excuse for inaction.

My love of country this Thanksgiving season is not based on what this or that politician does, but on what America has always been.

The N.I.H. director has learned all the wrong lessons from Covid.

The N.I.H. director has learned all the wrong lessons from Covid.