How We Live On, Long After We Are Gone NYT | Opinion 20 July 2025 at 21:00 Readers respond to an essay by Roger Rosenblatt about death, memory and love. Also: How Medicaid cuts will hurt college students.
The Political Legacy of Jerry Garcia NYT | Opinion Jim Newton 20 July 2025 at 21:00 Garcia and the music he wrote aimed for something beyond politics, something deeper.
Trump’s Perversion of Justice Has Reached a New Phase NYT | Opinion David French 20 July 2025 at 18:00 The president is determined to transform America’s legal system into his personal political weapon.
The Revolutionary and Radical Tenderness of Andrea Gibson NYT | Opinion Amber Tamblyn 20 July 2025 at 18:00 What poetry can offer in a time of vitriol and hate
Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another NYT | Opinion Ezra Klein 20 July 2025 at 18:00 The consensus that held them together for generations is breaking down.
Dictionaries Are Better Than Artificial Intelligence NYT | Opinion Alessandro Tersigni 20 July 2025 at 18:00 A.I. and spell-check make choices for writers. With real, physical dictionaries, writers are empowered to decide how to express themselves.
Sorry, This Epstein Stuff Isn’t Going to Hurt Trump NYT | Opinion Matthew Walther 20 July 2025 at 13:00 His political demise has been greatly exaggerated.
Mike Johnson Would Like You to Know About His Subservience NYT | Opinion Jamelle Bouie 20 July 2025 at 00:01 The speaker comes in with a strong entry in the sycophancy sweepstakes.
My Kids Asked for the Benson Boone Cookie. Here Is My Reply. NYT | Opinion Jessica Grose 20 July 2025 at 03:05 I want to make it stop, and my earnest admonitions about the emptiness of American materialism are not working.
She Exposed Epstein, and Shares MAGA’s Anger NYT | Opinion Ross Douthat 19 July 2025 at 19:00 The reporter who took down Jeffrey Epstein on what’s still hidden.
MAGA’s New Target: Trump NYT | Opinion Maureen Dowd 19 July 2025 at 19:00 The president is in a deep-state fugue.
A Pro-Trump Community Reckons With Losing a Beloved Immigrant Neighbor NYT | Opinion Nicholas Kristof 19 July 2025 at 19:00 Republicans had a point when they complained that Democrats overreached on immigration. But that’s what the G.O.P. is doing now.
Trump, Epstein and a Stinging SCOTUS Dissent NYT | Opinion Michelle Cottle, David French, Jamelle Bouie and Alison Bruzek 20 July 2025 at 00:39 “The Opinions” round table discusses Trump and MAGA’s very bad week.
Has the Death of the Novel Been Greatly Exaggerated? NYT | Opinion 19 July 2025 at 19:00 Readers respond to a column by David Brooks.
The Icelandic Landscape Is Changing, and It’s Changing Us NYT | Opinion Andri Snær Magnason and Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir 19 July 2025 at 19:00 It is impossible to separate our language from its island at the edge of the Arctic.
Listen to ‘Hamlet.’ Feel Better. NYT | Opinion Jeremy McCarter 19 July 2025 at 19:00 Everyone knows the melancholy Dane. But if you see things from his point of view, Hamlet offers some useful tips for getting through hard times.
The ‘Little Epstein Theory’ vs. ‘Big Epstein Theory’ NYT | Opinion 19 July 2025 at 18:50 “The Opinions” round table discusses Trump and MAGA’s very bad week.
The Beauty of Walmart Shopping NYT | Opinion Crispin Sartwell and Tim Davis 19 July 2025 at 05:05 Big-box retail constructs its infinite aesthetic array out of hundreds of thousands of brush strokes.
Stephen Colbert Could Never Save Us From Trump NYT | Opinion Molly Jong-Fast 19 July 2025 at 03:42 Mocking Donald Trump will not destroy him.
An Uproar as CBS Cancels Stephen Colbert NYT | Opinion 19 July 2025 at 01:21 Readers, many of them unhappy, react to the cancellation of Mr. Colbert’s show. Also: A rubber-stamp Congress; lessons from the Scopes trial.
A Movie About the Year America Went Fully Berserk NYT | Opinion Michelle Goldberg 18 July 2025 at 17:03 From the director of “Midsommar,” a nightmare vision of our national descent.
The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind NYT | Opinion Meghan O’Rourke 18 July 2025 at 17:02 We need to reckon with what ChatGPT is doing to the classroom and to human expression.
The Seeds of Democratic Revival Have Already Been Sown NYT | Opinion Jonathan Rauch and Peter Wehner 18 July 2025 at 21:51 The party is getting pummeled. But it can fight back.
Why Trump’s War on Solar Power Will Fail NYT | Opinion Bill McKibben 19 July 2025 at 02:54 It is inevitable that America will eventually follow the rest of the world and that in 40 or so years, it will run mainly on sun and wind.
Why Don’t Celebrity Memoirs Have Indexes Anymore? NYT | Opinion Ben Widdicombe 18 July 2025 at 21:37 They should obviously include indexes so that we can find the juicy parts. So why don’t they?
Why Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein NYT | Opinion 18 July 2025 at 10:52 The journalist Will Sommer examines the perfect storm of the Epstein files, Trump, QAnon and MAGA.
The Cost of Trump’s Surrender to China NYT | Opinion David Brooks 18 July 2025 at 05:00 China has been displaying intellectual and innovative vitality for decades and the United States has scarcely mobilized.
Listen Up. Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Speaking to You. NYT | Opinion John McWhorter 18 July 2025 at 07:42 Purists are freaking out over her informal locutions, but at least they’re taking notice.
New Scripts for a Democratic Comeback NYT | Opinion 18 July 2025 at 00:40 Readers offer advice to the Democrats. Also: Senator Josh Hawley’s reversal; a backlash at the E.P.A.; President Trump and the absurd.