I?m the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. This Is Something I Thought I?d Never Have to Write.

International law is either universal or meaningless. Greenland will show which one we choose.

Trump Is Obsessed With Yesterday?s Energy. China Is Focused on the Future.

China isn?t just building gigantic amounts of power. Its businesses are reshaping technological foundations to electrify the world.

When Indian Americans Feel Unwelcome

Readers discuss a column by Lydia Polgreen about how Indians are rethinking migration to America.

An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good

She had no way of knowing she had crossed a line.

Lula: This Hemisphere Belongs to All of Us

Only together can we overcome the challenges that afflict a hemisphere that belongs to all of us.

What the ?Dude? Who Shot Renee Good Couldn?t Hear

The ICE agent who shot Renee Good did not seem to hear what she was really saying.

Trump?s Greenland Threats Will Boomerang on America

A territorial grab by the United States would mean the end of NATO.

Nonprofit News Can Fill the Gap Left by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Local print media is in a death spiral. Nonprofit journalism start-ups show how journalists can still do essential work.

Martin Luther King?s Son to the Supreme Court: Preserve Our Democracy

Martin Luther King?s son and Norm Ornstein, a leading scholar of voting rights, discuss a case that could hollow out the Voting Rights Act.

?Landman? Isn?t Just Oil Industry Propaganda

The show does far more to criticize the oil and gas industry than it does to bolster it.

One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.

The United States is broken, but not in every way.

This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play

Minneapolis in 2026 is starting to look like Boston in the 1770s.

Behold Donald of Deliria!

Trump, sinking into the quicksand of imperialism.

No, Trump Can?t Cancel the Midterms

Despite how much the president talks about canceling the 2026 midterms, the columnist Jamelle Bouie explains why he can?t on this episode of ?The Opinions.?

MAGA After Trump

The president?s approval rating is a misleading signal, argues the columnist David French on ?The Opinions.? Without Trump on the ballot, midterm elections will expose the true strength ? or weakness ? of MAGA politics.

Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

The midterms will be a battle for control of Trump?s legacy.

How War With China Begins

Even more likely than an all-out invasion of Taiwan may be ?gray zone? pressures, such as cutting internet cables.

Trump?s Second Term Has Ended the Conservative Era

The right?s future is all about American nationalism.

One Year In, Trump?s Attack on American Justice is Accelerating

One year into the president?s second term, America risks losing a central feature of our democracy: that we are a country ruled by laws, not by the whims of one man.

Why Young People Love the Grateful Dead

I was interested in the lost world this music conjured, a world of teenagers like my aunts who had left home young and hit the road.

In Search of Love and Meaning in a Changing World

Readers respond to a column by David Brooks.

Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?

The midterms will be a battle for control of Trump?s legacy.

By Raiding a Reporter?s Home, Is the F.B.I. Is Weaponizing National Security?

Knowing what the government is up to is essential for democracy to work.

The Underachiever in Chief?

How much has Trump actually accomplished one year into his second term? According to the conservative analyst Yuval Levin, not much.

Conservative Politics Can?t Just Be About Hate

Politics in America has taken an ugly turn, the conservative analyst Yuval Levin says on ?The Ezra Klein Show,? arguing it has become too influenced by fear.

The High Cost of ICE?s Low Standards

By doubling its force while slashing training time, ICE has scaled up its culture of violence into an unrestrained and unaccountable machine.

How to Train Citizens to Observe ICE

What does training to document ICE actions look like? On ?Interesting Times,? one activist explains how his Minneapolis-based nonprofit teaches citizens to be constitutional observers.

What Kind of Immigration Enforcement Is Legitimate?

As ICE?s approach to immigration enforcement faces mounting criticism, Ross Douthat, the host of ?Interesting Times,? asks the Minneapolis activist Francisco Segovia what legitimate immigration enforcement might look like.

Dear America, Greenland Is Not on Zillow

Trump wants Greenland? Its previous colonizer has some thoughts.

Trump?s New Military Threat to Minnesota

Readers react to the unrest in Minnesota. Also: Parallels to the past; the Nobel Peace Prize medal; nuclear power; Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead.

?Dilbert' Cartoonist Scott Adams Was Always MAGA

My visit with Scott Adams, who anticipated Donald Trump with his comic strip.

This Is How Your Mind Works

Our thoughts are an ever-changing swirl of fears, feelings, desires, impulses, memories and body sensations that interact to form a single mind.

Dear Trump, Buying Greenland Is a Bad Idea

Trump wants Greenland? Its previous colonizer has some thoughts.

Minneapolis Feels ?Like Being in a Civil War?

Documenting ICE is dangerous. This man wants you to do it anyway.

The Right Is Furious With Liberal White Women

In the MAGA imagination, white women are supposed to be helpmeets, not harpies.

A Conservative Critiques Trump?s First Year

The conservative political analyst Yuval Levin gives Ezra Klein his review of Trump?s first year back in office.

Dear America, Greenland Is Not on Zillow

Trump wants Greenland? Its previous colonizer has some thoughts.

Iran?s Regime Is Losing Its Greatest Weapon: Fear

The bulwark of Iranian oppression is fear. The latest round of demonstrations show it has been breached.

Fear of Venezuelan Oil Loss Is Stalking Cubans

The electricity may go off, but islanders see a glimmer of hope in Maduro?s departure.

ICE Is Losing the Political Battle

?When I look at the ICE operation in Minnesota,? says the Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie, ?I see a White House that is panicking and that is losing.?

The Geopolitics of Greenland and NATO

Readers respond to articles about the U.S. threats against Greenland. Also: A woman?s aging face.

Something Is Rotten in the State of America

This is the thanks Denmark gets?

The Gaudy, Nasty Fictions of Donald J. Trump

This is neither law nor order, and the consequences can be deadly.

They Were Ordinary Germans. We Are Ordinary Americans.

We are the bystanders this time.

2 Polling Experts on How the ICE Shooting Is More Trouble for Trump

The general sense of the world being chaotic does not necessarily help Trump.

Trump Picked the Right Stage to Act Out His Imperial Ambitions

For presidents of both parties, Latin America has served as a wellspring of perpetual reinvention and the source of much of their ideological creativity.

Democrats Will Lose in 2028 Unless They Change Course Now

Despite the successes of 2025, the party still needs a radical shake-up.

Renee Good?s Family Should Be Able to Sue the Officer Who Killed Her

An ICE killing in Minneapolis can be the impetus for finally closing a gaping hole in our constitutional protections.

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