Lydia Polgreen
Opinion Columnist at The New York Times
Podcast Co-Host at Matter of Opinion (NY Times)
Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
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2 days ago |
nytimes.com | Lydia Polgreen
Two Saturdays ago, I found myself on the streets of a small, down-at-heel Republican town in northwestern Connecticut where dozens of protesters had gathered to join the millions who took to the streets across the nation to oppose Donald Trump’s increasingly autocratic presidency. Wielding handmade signs filled with corny puns, they braved the spitting rain to declare that the United States would not be ruled by a self-proclaimed king.
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1 month ago |
mercurynews.com | Lydia Polgreen
It might sound improbable in light of the bizarre encounter that unfolded in the Oval Office on Wednesday, but President Donald Trump and Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, actually have quite a few things in common. Both are lavishly wealthy business tycoons who coveted, then achieved, rather late in life, the highest office in their land. Both share a taste for the refined leisure of the moneyed global elite — golf for Trump, fly fishing for Ramaphosa.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Lydia Polgreen
This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. T hese days, antipathy to migrants can seem akin to gravity - an obvious, eternal and immutable truth driven by the laws of human nature. But it's actually something that happened very quickly.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Lydia Polgreen
It might sound improbable in light of the bizarre encounter that unfolded in the Oval Office on Wednesday, but President Trump and Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's president, actually have quite a few things in common. Both are lavishly wealthy business tycoons who coveted, then achieved, rather late in life, the highest office in their land. Both share a taste for the refined leisure of the moneyed global elite - golf for Trump, fly fishing for Ramaphosa.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Krista Mahr |Nicholas Kristof |Lydia Polgreen |Derek Arthur
Lydia Polgreen and Nicholas Kristof discuss why other nations are picking up what the president is punching down. With President Trump meeting with heads of state in the Middle East this week, the Times Opinion senior international editor Krista Mahr sat down with the columnists Lydia Polgreen and Nick Kristof to talk about how the president is emboldening leaders of all kinds worldwide, and what relationships they're most worried about.
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