By Nicholas Kristof With this presidential election seemingly a jump ball, what might American democracy and the world look like if...

By Ross Douthat This week, my newsroom colleague Kevin Roose chronicled the heartbreaking story of Sewell Setzer III, a Florida teenager...

By Paul Krugman Donald Trump has always been a con man. As an entrepreneur, he left behind a trail of investors who lost money in failed...

By Michelle Goldberg Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again Lollapalooza at Madison Square Garden on Sunday began with an iconic scene...

By David Brooks I had hoped this election would be a moment of national renewal. I had hoped that the Democrats could decisively defeat...

By Serge Schmemann The kernel of the long-awaited “victory plan” for Ukraine that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy introduced this fall goes...

By Pamela Paul Why did pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University chant “NYPD, KKK” and the Movement for Black Lives demand “an...

By Jamelle Bouie Toward the end of his tenure, Gen. Mark Milley, who was the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 to 2023, told...