LoginMike Johnson Would Like You to Know About His Subservience
The speaker comes in with a strong entry in the sycophancy sweepstakes.
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The Benson Boone Crumbl Cookie and Our Ultraprocessed Culture
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
The reporter who took down Jeffrey Epstein on what’s still hidden.
MAGA’s New Target: Trump
The president is in a deep-state fugue.
A Pro-Trump Community Reckons With Losing a Beloved Immigrant Neighbor
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
“The Opinions” round table discusses Trump and MAGA’s very bad week.
Has the Death of the Novel Been Greatly Exaggerated?
Readers respond to a column by David Brooks.
The Icelandic Landscape Is Changing, and It’s Changing Us
It is impossible to separate our language from its island at the edge of the Arctic.
Listen to ‘Hamlet.’ Feel Better.
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’
“The Opinions” round table discusses Trump and MAGA’s very bad week.
The Beauty of Walmart Shopping
Big-box retail constructs its infinite aesthetic array out of hundreds of thousands of brush strokes.
Stephen Colbert Could Never Save Us From Trump
Mocking Donald Trump will not destroy him.
An Uproar as CBS Cancels Stephen Colbert
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
From the director of “Midsommar,” a nightmare vision of our national descent.
The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind
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
The party is getting pummeled. But it can fight back.
Why Trump’s War on Solar Power Will Fail
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?
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
The journalist Will Sommer examines the perfect storm of the Epstein files, Trump, QAnon and MAGA.
The Cost of Trump’s Surrender to China
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.
Purists are freaking out over her informal locutions, but at least they’re taking notice.
New Scripts for a Democratic Comeback
Readers offer advice to the Democrats. Also: Senator Josh Hawley’s reversal; a backlash at the E.P.A.; President Trump and the absurd.
The Safeguard and the Danger if Trump Fires Powell
The Federal Reserve was designed to resist short-run political pressure, but it may be defenseless against patient efforts to undermine its independence.
‘Superman’ Is MAGA Kryptonite
Clark Kent’s real superpower is the gift of adoption.
The Safeguard and the Danger if Trump Fires Powell
The Federal Reserve was designed to resist short-run political pressure, but it may be defenseless against patient efforts to undermine its independence.
Why Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein
The journalist Will Sommer examines the perfect storm of the Epstein files, Trump, QAnon and MAGA.
Is ‘Toxic Empathy’ Pulling Christians to the Left?
How Allie Beth Stuckey is holding the line on the right.
The YouTube Host Defining Conservative Christianity
How Allie Beth Stuckey is holding the line on the right.
‘We Seem to Be in a Mathematically Incoherent Universe’: 3 Writers on Trump’s Big Gamble
Will the Republican sprawling policy bill give Democrats new traction in next year’s midterms?
