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3 days ago | 
nytimes.com | M. Gessen |Vishakha Darbha
"Nice university you got there. Shame if something happened to it."In this episode of "The Opinions," the columnist M. Gessen argues that when it comes to America's institutions, President Trump is taking a page out of a Soviet-style playbook. Welcome to Trump's Mafia State"Nice university you got there. Shame if something happened to it." Below is a transcript of an episode of "The Opinions." We recommend listening to it in its original form for the full effect.
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1 week ago | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Patrick Healy |Bret Stephens |Vishakha Darbha
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On this First 100 Days episode of “The Opinions,” the deputy Opinion editor, Patrick Healy, and the columnist Bret Stephens discuss the nuance of being a conservative critical of President Trump.Below is a transcript of an episode of “The Opinions.” We recommend listening to it in its original form for the full effect.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Patrick Healy |Bret Stephens |Vishakha Darbha
Bret is a conservative who occupies this really interesting position: He's a Trump critic who thinks the administration is succeeding on some fronts, and he's an American who wants strong leadership in his country, but finds both political parties really lacking. So what's it like to agree with Trump on a bunch of issues, but also kind of hate him? I'm curious how Bret wrestles with that dichotomy and how he thinks Americans should see the next four years. Bret, thanks for joining me.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Lydia Polgreen |Vishakha Darbha
The longtime activist and writer Sarah Schulman on why now is the time to stand up to people you oppose. In this episode of "The Opinions," the New York Times Opinion columnist Lydia Polgreen speaks to the author and activist Sarah Schulman on resistance and solidarity during politically charged times. 'This Moment Is a Cataclysm,' but We Can Still ActThe longtime activist and writer Sarah Schulman on why now is the time to stand up to people you oppose.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Michelle Cottle |Ben Rhodes |Vishakha Darbha
And I think Democrats underestimate just how profoundly loathed they are right now. I say that as a Democrat. If you are under 30, the only national Democrats you've really known are Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden and then maybe a hundred days of Kamala Harris. [Cottle laughs.]And I like those people, but they are definitely not tomorrow, and they kind of represent Washington and they represent certain ways of doing things that people think have failed.
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1 month ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Patrick Healy |Thomas Friedman |Vishakha Darbha
And Bessent to me is Exhibit A of the fundamental truth — and we’ve talked about this before — of the Trump 2 administration. Trump 1 was surrounded by buffers, and Trump 2 is surrounded by amplifiers. There is simply no buffer anymore between what Trump hears at the Mar-a-Lago bar and what becomes Treasury policy days later, or foreign policy days later.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Patrick Healy |Thomas Friedman |Vishakha Darbha
It's not just impunity, Pat. What's going on in Washington today is a combination I've never seen: A president acting with impunity, backed by a party that controls the House, the Senate and effectively the Supreme Court which are absolutely terrified of challenging Trump on any issue. Backed by the world's richest man who can fund a primary against any of these people and who can really intimidate them with social media and launch a Twitter mob against them.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Patrick Healy |Tressie McMillan Cottom |Vishakha Darbha
President Trump's outsize performance of masculinity has won him attention, elections and the support of manosphere influencers from Andrew Tate to Joe Rogan. In this episode of "The Opinions," the deputy editor of Times Opinion, Patrick Healy, speaks with columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom about what Trump's focus on gender means for men, women, minorities and American politics.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Kori Schake |Vishakha Darbha
The Trump administration may be considering negotiating a peace deal with Russia that would end the war in Ukraine. "No American president in the last 80 years and probably 100 years before that would have made this bargain," Kori Schake, the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, tells the Opinion columnist David French. Trump's Bargain With Putin Is 'Shameful'Turning our back on Ukraine would only weaken America.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Patrick Healy |M. Gessen |Vishakha Darbha
The deputy editor of Opinion, Patrick Healy, speaks with the columnist M. Gessen about why so many people and institutions, including Democrats, have bent the knee to Trump, despite strongly disagreeing with him. There's a Reason Even 'Smart' People Surrender to TrumpM. Gessen and Patrick Healy try to reckon with the president's whiplash authoritarianism. Below is a transcript of an episode of "The Opinions." We recommend listening to it in its original form for the full effect.
