Opinion | Matt Gaetz Has Kevin McCarthy Running Scared
Is it just me, or did Kevin McCarthy look a little rough around the edges on Tuesday when announcing his decision to open an impeachment investigation into President Biden? I…
Opinion | Can Samantha Power Win the Battle for Ukraine’s Future?
*** The administration’s loudest critics think not. “Biden Is Sending Our Treasures to Corrupt Oligarchs,” was the title of a Tucker Carlson screed on Fox News in early April, shortly…
Opinion | The C.D.C. Director on Why You Should Get the Latest Covid Booster
We have come a long way since the early days of 2020. Back then, I was the head of North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services and working alongside…
Opinion | Biden, Trump and the 2024 Field of Nightmares
In the bottom of the 10th inning of the sixth game of the 1986 World Series, with the Boston Red Sox leading the New York Mets 5-3, Red Sox manager…
Opinion | The Value of an Education That Never Ends
For more than 15 years I have presided over my university’s Arrival Day, the time when families drop off their sons and daughters about to start their college career. Every…
Opinion | Where Is the Evidence, Speaker McCarthy?
There is a certain pattern to modern impeachment inquiries. They typically begin after the discovery of blatantly incriminating evidence. In 1998 the House of Representatives began its impeachment inquiry only…
Opinion | What Is ‘It Is What It Is’?
The issue here is language change. The expression “it is what it is” began as counsel about coping. However, an implication floats over the proactive, constructive intent of the phrase:…
Opinion | What Biden Can Learn from Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” helped raise America’s economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s and set the country on course to become a superpower. And now,…
Opinion | My Sister’s Mental Health Crisis Became My Crisis
How much are you prepared to lose yourself in someone else’s pain? In the Opinion video above, Kaitlin Prest, an audio artist and podcaster acclaimed for her intimate explorations of…
Opinion | In Alabama, Will the Supreme Court Defend Itself and the Voting Rights Act?
A panel of three federal judges last week issued a scathing opinion directing the state of Alabama to comply with the Voting Rights Act. It was the latest development in…
Opinion | How the U.S. Economy Is Taming Inflation Without a Recession
Early this year many economists held a very grim view about the prospects for reducing inflation without a major economic slowdown and a big rise in unemployment. One prominent economist…
Opinion | The Straitjacket of Minority Rule
A disturbing part of the answer, Levitsky and Ziblatt conclude, lies in our Constitution, the very document Americans rely on to defend us from autocracy. “Designed in a predemocratic era,…
Opinion | A Saudi-Israel Deal Would Bring Big Benefits — to the U.S.
The Biden administration is working overtime to consolidate what is arguably Washington’s most significant advantage over its great power rivals, especially China. That advantage lies in the Middle East. More…
Opinion | How Tokyo Achieves Affordable Housing
Yuta Yamasaki and his wife moved from southern Japan to Tokyo a decade ago because job prospects were better in the big city. They now have three sons — ages…