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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 31m

“I made dinner for my family because I wanted to and because the world told me I had to and then, three years ago, I just stopped. I didn’t want to anymore,” writes Erin White.

Opinion | Why I Had to Kill Family Dinner

I’m here to tell you that you can stop cooking every night, and your children will be just fine.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1h

“The best state of mind is one in which you can look out on all creation, other people in particular, and say to yourself: That too I am,” Mark Edmundson writes.

Opinion | What Ted Lasso, the Bhargava Gita and Derrida Can Teach Us About Ourselves

Our culture is amok with binaries. We have two major parties, just two, and they are forever opposed.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 3h

“Some Black Chicagoans expressed indignation and disbelief at seeing us be brutalized,” Vic Mensa writes, “with one young brother exclaiming as he watched federal agents appear to choke a man on the street, ‘Ya’ll supposed to be choking Mexicans.’”

Opinion | How to Save Chicago From ICE

What’s happening is shocking. It can get worse.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 4h

“Here’s the uncomfortable truth,” Shira Efron writes about what the Israel-Gaza peace plan means for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “This ‘victory’ is actually a defeat — a necessary and blessed defeat — of this government’s messianic vision.”

Opinion | Trump’s Peace Plan Dismantled Netanyahu’s Vision for Gaza

While he is trying to sell it as a strategic win, the peace deal contradicts many of his coalition’s goals.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 6h

When it comes to the government shutdown’s health care debate, “the politics isn’t on the Democrats’ side; the substance is on the Democrats’ side here,” Jon Favreau says on this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”

Opinion | Jon Favreau on Where the Democrats Went Right

Jon Favreau considers how the government shutdown could help Democrats rebuild their fractured party.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 18h

The big football conferences “are so dominant that they effectively control the N.C.A.A., forcing it to shape its policies and protocols to meet their needs, to the disadvantage of smaller sports programs,” writes James Harris, a former N.C.A.A. official.

Opinion | Boot Big Football From the N.C.A.A.

The Power Four schools should go their own way and give other sports a chance to shine.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 20h

“If we cannot tell the difference between independent science and corporate propaganda, then we’ve already surrendered the future of our food — and our health — to industry,” Loren Cardeli writes in a letter to The Times.

Opinion | Debating the Dangers of a Pesticide

Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay about the common weedkiller Roundup.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 21h

Trump has vowed to use I.C.E. “to target gang members, murderers and rapists, but we’re not just rounding up violent offenders. We’re arresting working parents, students, asylum seekers and even U.S. citizens to create made-for-TV crackdowns,” writes Jason Houser, a former I.C.E. chief of staff.

Opinion | This Isn’t Crisis Response, It’s Crisis Construction

We’re arresting working parents, students, asylum seekers and even U.S. citizens to create made-for-TV crackdowns.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 22h

“Trump seems oblivious to the paradox of enforcing peace abroad and disrupting it badly at home, of soothing violence overseas and inflaming it here,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes.

Opinion | Peace in Trump’s Time — Except Here

Peace abroad and war at home — not very America first!

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 23h

“If there’s anything that Middle Eastern politics should teach the president,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes, “it’s that actual victory lies somewhere outside the cycle of vengeance — if, that is, you want your victories to last.”

Opinion | Why Can’t Trump’s Domestic Policy Be More Like His Foreign Policy?

Three keys to his success on the world stage could be applied at home.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

“MAGA is making a giant mistake in taking the whole cancel culture discourse of 2019, 2020, and saying: Oh, we’ll just do this more and more aggressively, and that’s going to work for us,” our columnist David French says in this week’s round table episode of “The Opinions.”

Opinion | Who Can Stop a President Deploying Troops?

On this week’s round table: Courts, Congress and chaos under Trump.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

“There may be no two politicians further apart on the ideological spectrum” than Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani, writes Michael Hirschorn. “But the appeal they make to voters, and the way voters respond, is uncannily similar.”

Opinion | With Mamdani, the Left Finally Has Its Trump

“Horseshoe” doesn’t even begin to describe it.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

If President Trump wanted to help Portland, “there are many ways he could do so with the $10 million that was the estimated cost of his deployment of the Oregon National Guard,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. nyti.ms/3IRtdwH

Opinion | Our Beautiful Portland Hellscape

With the millions being used to deploy troops to Portland, Trump could help with treatment for substance use, with emergency housing, with education.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

“When it comes to Venezuela, silence is violence,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes. “Choosing to ignore the catastrophe there only serves to perpetuate it.”

Opinion | A Worthy Nobel Peace Laureate

And a reminder of the need to depose the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

“People dancing in the streets in Israel and Gaza to celebrate the cease-fire and the hostages’ apparently imminent return make me more and more anxious,” Len DiSesa writes in a letter to The Times. “Shouldn’t we wait until all the hostages have been set free?”

Opinion | Hope and Anxiety Over Israel-Gaza Peace

Readers respond to the rapidly developing events in the Middle East. Also: The virtues of coal; three hours with Velázquez.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

“Donald Trump has enemies. Richard Nixon had a list of them,” Jeffrey Toobin writes. “The differences in how these presidents’ respective adversaries were treated reveal that the federal government has taken a darker turn in 2025 than it did in the 1970s.”

Opinion | Trump Is Taking the Nixon ‘Enemies List’ a Step Further

Nixon famously had an enemies list. But there’s a difference between what happened then and what is happening now.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

“America is now in a dangerous period, in which the president can order investigations and indictments against his enemies,” the editorial board writes.

Opinion | James Comey. Letitia James. Who’s Next?

America is now in a dangerous period, in which the president can order investigations and indictments against his enemies.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 1d

“The Constitution’s meaning is not the Supreme Court’s alone to define. It belongs to ‘we the people,’” Kate Andrias writes. “And when we organize collectively, we can change it, even without ratifying formal amendments.”

Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court

It belongs to us. And we can use it to rescue our democracy.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 2d

“I’m not sure that winning the shutdown is a thing that matters,” Nate Silver says in a round table discussion with his fellow writers Frank Bruni and Kristen Soltis Anderson. “And I’m not sure that polling tells us very much about it.”

Opinion | 3 Writers Try to Make Sense of the Government Shutdown

What the polling says, who’s up, who’s down — and when it might end.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 2d

“Too often, Mr. Trump’s ethics flare-ups fade quickly. But I see glaring problems in the handling of Mr. Homan’s case that cry out for an independent investigation,” writes Mark Lee Greenblatt, who was the inspector general of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Opinion | I Investigated Corruption. The Homan Affair Is Full of Red Flags.

An apparent cash handoff is yet another star in the Trump administration’s constellation of ethics problems.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 2d

“A destructive A.I., like a nuclear bomb, is now a concrete possibility. The question is whether anyone will be reckless enough to build one.” Stephen Witt writes about the A.I. prompt that could end the world.

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

A destructive A.I., like a nuclear bomb, is now a concrete possibility; the question is whether anyone will be reckless enough to build one.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 2d

María Corina Machado, the leader of Venezuela's political opposition, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. In a July 2024 essay for Times Opinion, she called on President Nicolás Maduro to “accept the Venezuelan people’s will.”

Opinion | Venezuela Is Ready for Change. Maduro Must Allow It. (Published 2024)

It is clear Venezuelans have chosen to oust President Maduro. Whether that will happen remains in question.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 2d

“Had I gone to sleep on New Year’s Eve in 1999 and woke up today, Rip Van Winkle style, much of the world I left behind that night would still feel familiar,” Glynnis MacNicol writes.

Opinion | Why Are We Doomed to Keep Reliving the ’90s?

The characters that dominated the end of the last millennium have an outsize influence on the current one.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 2d

“As someone who played a part in the compact’s initial formulation,” the financier Marc Rowan writes of the Trump administration’s plan for universities, “I would like to offer what insight I can into the motivation and need for the compact.”

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

The government should not use public funds to support a system that fails to serve the public good.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 2d

In Cameroon’s election on Sunday, victory for the 92-year-old incumbent, Paul Biya, “is all but guaranteed,” Shuimo Trust Dohyee writes. “Yet the sheer longevity of Mr. Biya’s rule remains something of an enigma.”

Opinion | Cameroon Is in Thrall to a 92-Year-Old Man

Cameroon is in thrall to Paul Biya.

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