By Lina M. Khan Ms. Khan was chair of the Federal Trade Commission from 2021 to 2025. “Anthropic’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, has transfixed Washington with apocalyptic warnings that his …

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By Tim Wu Mr. Wu is a law professor who worked in the Biden administration on economic competition and tech policy. Sept. 28, 2026 After years of fumbling around for an effective campaign message, …

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By Steven Rattner The walls are closing in on artificial intelligence: moratoriums on new data center construction, job-loss concerns and rising alarm over safety.   (full access) All valid worries…

The Rot at the Top The real reason Americans are paying more under Trump Republicans Robert Reich 11 hours ago “Friends, Democratic candidates should be talking about ONLY two things in these…

By Laura Chung Reporting from Sydney, Australia. Two bogong moths startled Laura when she opened a gate on Wednesday. Sept. 30, 2026 “Decades ago, spring in Australia meant lifting a towel or…

By Bill McKibben  Mr. McKibben is a professor at Middlebury College and the author of “Here Comes the Sun.” “Psychologists have claimed that evolutionary biology leaves humans ill-equipped to…

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By M. Gessen Opinion Columnist “If you’ve heard anything about “NAZA,” the new documentary about the war in Gaza, it might be that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was so outraged by it that…

By Eric Blanc    Mr. Blanc is an assistant professor of labor studies at Rutgers University and writes a newsletter, Labor Politics, on Substack. “For decades, young people have been one of t…

By W.J. Hennigan Mr. Hennigan writes about national security for Opinion. “A month before President Trump launched his war against Iran, construction crews broke ground on a multimillion-doll…

By Robert Moor Mr. Moor is the author of “In Trees: An Exploration.” He lives in Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia. “Thirteen years ago, I traded a shoe-box apartment on the east side of Manhatt…

By David Wallace-Wells and Zeke Hausfather    Mr. Wallace-Wells is an Opinion writer. Dr. Hausfather is the climate research lead at Stripe and a research scientist with Berkeley Earth. “Ever…

By Michelle Cottle Ms. Cottle writes about national politics for Opinion. ”  “I deliver for the state of Maine.” These seven words, uttered by Senator Susan Collins in a recent sit-down with …

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By Clay Risen Published Aug. 3, 2026Updated Aug. 5, 2026 “Dudley Laufman, a charismatic farmer, poet and musician who in the 1960s and ’70s led a revival of traditional New England folk danci…

By Isobel Whitcomb Sept. 23, 2024 Leer en español阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 ”  “An apple a day” might seem like overkill, but America’s most popular fruit — currently weighing down branches in orchards e…

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By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega Visuals by Alejandro Cegarra The reporters visited several communities surrounding the Endhó Dam, in central Mexico, which locals call the world’s largest cesspool. Sept.…

By Robinson Meyer     Mr. Meyer is a contributing Opinion writer and the founding executive editor of Heatmap, a media company focused on climate change. “When liberals imagine the kind of ca…

By Maxine Joselow and Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington Published Sept. 13, 2026 Updated Sept. 14, 2026: “The Trump administration plans to announce Monday that the United States will n…

By Stephen Witt Mr. Witt is the author of “The Thinking Machine,” a history of the A.I. giant Nvidia. Sept. 11, 2026 “The biggest vibe shift in artificial intelligence since the release of Ch…

By Radley Balko    Radley Balko is an investigative journalist writing on civil liberties and the criminal justice system “Six weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Congress pa…

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” . . . . . . While I care about elections in Israel, I care much more about them in my own country. Trump is the most un-American president in my lifetime. No president has done more, and co…

By Thomas L. Friedman   Opinion Columnist    “Oct. 27 and Nov. 3, 2026, are shaping up to be two of the most important dates in the history of two of the most important democracies — Israel a…

By Mairav Zonszein    Ms. Zonszein, a contributing Opinion writer, wrote from Tel Aviv. “Of all the fronts on which Israel is exerting force, the West Bank is where the Jewish state is the mo…

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By Loui Ridi Mr. Ridi is a Palestinian American businessman whose home has been besieged by Israeli settlers for weeks. He wrote from Qusra, West Bank. Leer en español “Since Aug. 9, m…

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By Chico Harlan  Sept. 2, 2026Updated 9:38 a.m. ET “The world has failed in its goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times, the United Nations said on We…

” . . . . . It has become remarkably expensive to attend the Open. That has angered a great many fans who’d like to go but can’t afford it. It’s even angered the hedge fund manager Bill Ackma…

By Frank Bruni   Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer who was on the staff of The Times for more than 25 years.You’re reading the Frank Bruni newsletter. Reflections on the mess (and magic) o…

By Azam Ahmed    Natan Odenheimer and Ronen Bergman   Photographs by Ivor PrickettAug. 31, 2026 “Maj. Gen. Eyal Ben-Reuven spent his life fighting for Israel. He survived the Arab-Israeli war…

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By Tressie McMillan Cottom     Opinion Columnist “Loving Dolly Rebecca Parton was easy. She was beautiful, funny and kind. Rumor has it that she was a prankster who could tell a good dirty jo…

August 26, 2026 Heather Cox Richardson Aug 27, 2026 “Last night, at exactly 9:25—9 to 5—the top of the Empire State Building in New York City lit up pink. The antennas of Chicago’s Willis Tow…

By Bill Friskics-Warren Aug. 25, 2026 Leer en español By Bill Friskics-Warren Aug. 25, 2026 Leer en español “Dolly Parton, a rhinestone-studded, rags-to-riches daughter of Appalachia who for …

By K. R. Callaway    Photographs and Video by Bryan Tarnowski   Reporting from Baton Rouge and Houma, La.Published Aug. 22, 2026Updated Aug. 24, 2026: On a sweltering night in late July, a team of …

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By Cody Delistraty      Mr. Delistraty is working on a book about Spiritualism. “Awe deficit disorder,” a term that’s bopped around the internet for at least a decade, does not have a formal medica…

By Thomas B. Edsall     Mr. Edsall contributes weekly essays from Washington on politics and demographics. “As of January, President Trump’s stubborn insistence on a beggar-thy-neighbor trade…

By Helen Ouyang     Dr. Ouyang is an emergency physician and an associate professor at Columbia. Last July, I visited Pittsburgh Mercy’s Operation Safety Net, the street medicine program founded by…

By Michelle Goldberg    Opinion Columnist Kicking off his re-election campaign at a rally in Atlanta last week, Senator Jon Ossoff barely mentioned the two Republicans who are in a runoff to oppose…

By Tressie McMillan Cottom Opinion Columnist “Are we looking at a socialist revival in American politics? A mash-up of political analysis since Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York Ci…

Influencers on social media are sharing content that claims to help followers self-diagnose complex medical conditions ranging from A.D.H.D. to autism. And the data reveals that the effect of self-…

By Nicholas Kristof Opinion columnist, reporting from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky    Aug. 1, 2026 After a 1,000-mile road trip across a swath of America, I can’t get one person out o…