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What Do You Do When a Family Member Commits a Terrible Crime?

What Do You Do When a Family Member Commits a Terrible Crime?

The columnist M. Gessen sits down with the writer Harriet Clark to talk through the complexity of maintaining relationships with family members who...

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‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

‘We Are Going to Deeply Regret This War’

Three journalists on the potential repercussions of Operation Epic Fury.

28.03.2026 10

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Thomas L. Friedman: America Is at a Boiling Point

Watching the response to ICE in his hometown has the columnist Thomas L. Friedman navigating “a mixture of pride and anguish.”

27.01.2026 100

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Two Opinion Writers on ‘Nutsville,’ USA

The Conversation convenes with Emily Bazelon, David French and Aaron Retica discussing the questions reshaping American politics right now, from...

24.01.2026 10

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Trump Is ‘Chest-Beating’ Over a Retreat

The round table convenes to discuss the start to Trump’s 2026, from Greenland to Minnesota and Venezuela.

11.01.2026 20

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No Democrat Should ‘Rerun the Biden Strategy’

The columnist Michelle Goldberg believes Democrats — and the nation — lose when they abandon the idea of America as a nation of immigrants.

23.12.2025 40

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Bret Stephens on the Fight for the Future of the Right

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

15.12.2025 10

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M. Gessen and Michelle Goldberg on How to Resist

Through their reporting, the columnists share how regular citizens stand up to governments they oppose.

10.12.2025 9

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Republicans Are Quietly Pushing Back Against Trump

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

06.12.2025 10

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Cory Booker on What It Takes to Believe in America Again

“If America hasn’t broken your heart, you don’t love her enough,” the New Jersey senator argues.

24.11.2025 10

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The Democrat Who Split MAGA Over the Epstein Files

Ro Khanna argues that even though there is a risk in releasing the documents, it still needs to happen.

18.11.2025 10

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A Conservative Vision for America After Trump

Can the right find its way back to small government? Sarah Isgur thinks so.

18.11.2025 10

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‘We Have a Border for a Reason’

Cecilia Muñoz on how to solve America’s biggest political challenge.

10.11.2025 10

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Bernie Sanders: ‘There Ain’t Much of a Democratic Party’

The Vermont senator on how to take the country back from elites — on both sides of the aisle.

03.11.2025 6

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We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust

Professor Marianne Hirsch on how the way we teach the “crime of all crimes” informs our understanding of Gaza.

31.10.2025 7

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Jill Lepore: ‘Most Forms of Tyranny Do Come to an End’

The Harvard historian on why change requires “determination and imagination.”

27.10.2025 8

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Three Words to Help Democrats Win

Lessons from a Democrat who won in a Republican state.

20.10.2025 20

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Trumpism After Trump: The Future of the Right

A conservative’s vision for MAGA beyond Trump.

06.10.2025 5

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Ken Burns: For America’s Next Story, Look Back to the Revolution

The documentarian reflects on the ideas that drove our nation’s founding — and how they echo today.

29.09.2025 7

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Elizabeth Warren on the Story Democrats Didn’t — and Won’t — Embrace

And how Republicans harnessed it instead.

22.09.2025 10

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What Will America’s Story Be After Trump?

In a new series, David Leonhardt asks leading thinkers and politicians: What’s next.

17.09.2025 7

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Impact So Far: ‘The Worst Possible Case’

David Wallace-Wells and Emily Oster argue that the effects of MAHA will be long-lasting.

13.08.2025 10

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There Is Hope for Democrats. Look to Kansas.

Two Opinion writers on the Democratic governors who might just save the party.

22.07.2025 8

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This Federal Judge Made Me Feel Better About Our Democracy

A former federal judge weighs in.

15.07.2025 7

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The World’s Best and Brightest Are Moving, but Not to America

Immigration isn’t a crisis. It’s the future.

09.07.2025 20

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The G.O.P. Fought for This Bill. When Trump’s Cuts Came? Silence.

The unlikely rise and tragic fall of a bipartisan solution on gun violence.

09.07.2025 8

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Is Iran Really a Threat to the United States? A Debate.

A hawk and a skeptic on their shared hope for Iran.

25.06.2025 10

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It’s Not Just Trump Voters. Both Parties Are in Denial.

The sociologist Arlie Hochschild studies Trump country. She explains why a decade of chaos still hasn’t shaken his base.

17.06.2025 7

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How to Turn the Middle Against Trump

Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and David Leonhardt on the fundamental question Democrats need to answer.

28.05.2025 10

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Michelle Goldberg: ‘More Democrats Need to Be Doing This’

Democrats have a lot of problems. But they are getting some things right.

21.05.2025 5

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Lydia Polgreen on Why Trump’s ‘Deportation Regime’ Is Actually Not Going Well

And what happens when your country becomes a place people no longer want to come to.

25.04.2025 10

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How to Survive in Politically Volatile Times

What British politics can teach us about enduring the Trump era.

08.04.2025 7

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To Save Democracy, Here’s a Playbook That Works

Poland pulled back from an authoritarian slide. What can the U.S. learn from its nonpartisan approach?

02.04.2025 9

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David Leonhardt on How Universities Can Stop Trump’s ‘Destroying Agenda’

And what will be lost if higher education fails to fight back.

27.03.2025 8

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‘Is the Destruction the Point?’: Three Opinion Writers on Trump’s First 50 Days

Michelle Goldberg and Frank Bruni join Patrick Healy to discuss the issues that have defined Trump’s presidency thus far.

12.03.2025 8

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David Brooks on Why the Democrats Are Losing to Trump

The columnist shares his thoughts on Donald Trump’s second term.

06.03.2025 20

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Elon Musk and the Useless Spending-Cut Theater of DOGE

The columnist David French speaks with a fellow fiscal conservative about what the Department of Government Efficiency should actually be doing.

06.03.2025 20

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Thomas Friedman on Just How Far Trump Could Push the World

The president wants to create a revolution abroad. This Opinion columnist would love to see a plan.

20.02.2025 10

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Maureen Dowd on Trump the Narcissist, Act II

The columnist sits down with Patrick Healy to discuss the enduring appeal of President Trump.

30.01.2025 10

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