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Byline: Michelle Goldberg When Donald Trump won the first time, I spoke to a journalist friend in Turkey to commiserate. I told her about all the protests that were planned, [...]

Lately, I've seen conservatives taunting liberals online by asking why, if we really think America could be on the verge of fascism, our bags aren't packed. ''It's tempting to begin [...]

Byline: Michelle Goldberg Lately, I've seen conservatives taunting liberals online by asking why, if we really think America could be on the verge of fascism, our bags aren't packed. 'It's [...]

The first person I met at a Monday night meet-and-greet for Dan Osborn, the independent Nebraska Senate candidate, was a Donald Trump-voting Republican named Joe Hallett. He'd worked, alongside his [...]

One day each month, Charlie Kirk, one of the country's most influential Republican activists, holds an event called Freedom Night in America at Dream City Church, a Pentecostal megachurch on [...]

Last Tuesday evening in Midtown Manhattan, Jackson Reffitt, a 22-year-old from Texas, cried through the first professional play he'd ever seen, which was about him. ''Fatherland,'' which recently opened Off [...]

Byline: Michelle Goldberg The Babylon Bee, which is like The Onion for conservative Christians, last month ran a despairing story about the presidential options anti-abortion voters have before them. 'Pro-Lifers [...]

The Babylon Bee, which is like The Onion for conservative Christians, last month ran a despairing story about the presidential options anti-abortion voters have before them. ''Pro-Lifers Excited to Choose [...]

Byline: Michelle Goldberg This week Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News star who now hosts one of America's top podcasts, had an apologist for Adolf Hitler on his show. Darryl [...]

This week Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News star who now hosts one of America's top podcasts, had an apologist for Adolf Hitler on his show. Darryl Cooper, who runs [...]

Byline: Michelle Goldberg The most consequential moment from Donald Trump's glitchy interview with Elon Musk on Monday came during a discussion of government cost-cutting. 'Well, you, you're the greatest cutter,' [...]

Byline: Michelle Goldberg When Donald Trump says something ludicrous and unhinged, it is often difficult to tell if he is acting out of feral political calculation or narcissistic injury. We [...]

When Donald Trump says something ludicrous and unhinged, it is often difficult to tell if he is acting out of feral political calculation or narcissistic injury. We saw this on [...]

In a normal political environment, there would be little need to pay attention to a new book by the far-right provocateur Jack Posobiec, who is probably best known for promoting [...]

Byline: Michelle Goldberg Tracy Nailor, a 56-year-old Atlanta pediatrician, wasn't particularly impressed with Kamala Harris when she first ran for president. 'I think I succumbed to the narrative about her,' [...]

Our world is more connected than ever. But it's never been easier to find yourself shepherded into a comfortable herd made up of close friends or political allies, your social [...]

In ''Hillbilly Elegy,'' the 2016 memoir that made JD Vance a celebrity, he described constantly remaking his childhood self to fit the rotating cast of father figures his unsound mother [...]

Byline: Michelle Goldberg Since the vile, civically calamitous attempted assassination of Donald Trump, some of the ex-president's allies have rushed to blame those who tried to warn of the danger [...]

Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists Ross Douthat, David French, Michelle Goldberg and Bret Stephens to discuss Donald Trump's choice of [...]

Since the vile, civically calamitous attempted assassination of Donald Trump, some of the ex-president's allies have rushed to blame those who tried to warn of the danger he poses to [...]

Patrick Healy: I've been deluged with texts and emails from senior Democrats in a panic over President Biden's debate performance and describing scenarios in which he might get out of [...]

Until the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, it was hard for feminists to get Americans to take the threat of losing the constitutional right to abortion seriously. [...]

The Indiana governor's race should not, under normal circumstances, be remotely competitive. In 2020, Donald Trump won the state by 16 percentage points, and the current governor, Eric Holcomb, a [...]

This week I finally got to see ''The Apprentice,'' an absorbing, disturbing movie about the relationship between the red-baiting mob lawyer Roy Cohn and a young Donald Trump. The film, [...]

Byline: Michelle Goldberg This week I finally got to see 'The Apprentice,' an absorbing, disturbing movie about the relationship between the red-baiting mob lawyer Roy Cohn and a young Donald [...]

The Colorado Republican Party last week sent a mass email with the subject line, ''God hates Pride.'' The missive denounced Pride Month as a time when ''godless groomers'' attack what [...]

This week, Breitbart interviewed the former Trump official Peter Navarro, one of many criminals in the ex-president's orbit, from the Miami prison where he is serving four months for contempt [...]

A truism of the Trump era is that every accusation is a confession. When Donald Trump hurls wild charges at his opponents, he is telegraphing what he plans to do [...]

Donald Trump's a felon now. That could make a difference. Listen to and follow 'Matter of Opinion' Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube With Lydia Polgreen in [...]

Royce White, a Black former pro basketball player who led protests in Minneapolis after the murder of George Floyd, made his first appearance on ''The Alex Jones Show'' about two [...]

Byline: Michelle Goldberg If I'd pictured Donald Trump's first criminal trial a few years ago, I'd have imagined the biggest, splashiest story in the world. Instead, as we lurch toward [...]

If I'd pictured Donald Trump's first criminal trial a few years ago, I'd have imagined the biggest, splashiest story in the world. Instead, as we lurch toward a verdict that [...]

In her new book, ''Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History,'' Nellie Bowles, a former New York Times journalist grown disillusioned with both the mainstream media [...]

Byline: Michelle Goldberg In her new book 'Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History,' Nellie Bowles, a former New York Times journalist grown disillusioned with both [...]

Byline: Michelle Goldberg John McEntee - who started out carrying Donald Trump's bags and rose to become, in the chaotic final days of Trump's presidency, his most important enforcer - [...]

John McEntee -- who started out carrying Donald Trump's bags and rose to become, in the chaotic final days of Trump's presidency, his most important enforcer -- has a TikTok [...]

In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland this week, the Republican senator Josh Hawley demanded a federal investigation into dark money groups subsidizing ''pro-terrorist student organizations'' holding anti-Israel protests [...]

An unfortunate symbiosis has developed between pro-Israel culture warriors like Republican Representative Elise Stefanik and the most self-indulgent fringe of pro-Palestinian campus protesters. Together they are, wittingly or unwittingly, shifting [...]

Kari Lake's appearance at Arizona State University last week was billed as a town hall, but it wasn't really, because only representatives of young conservative groups were permitted to ask [...]

This article has been updated to include new information about the number of arrests at Columbia University on Thursday. Columbia's exceptionally poised president, Nemat Shafik, clearly has no intention of [...]

Byline: Michelle Goldberg Going into Alex Garland's astonishing new film, 'Civil War,' I expected to be irritated by the implausibility of its premise. I'm not talking about the idea that [...]

Going into Alex Garland's astonishing new film, ''Civil War,'' I expected to be irritated by the implausibility of its premise. I'm not talking about the idea that America could devolve [...]

When Donald Trump was asked about the recent Florida Supreme Court decision upholding his adopted state's abortion ban, he promised that he would announce where he stands this week -- [...]

Chris Inclan, an alcohol and drug counselor from Sonoma, Calif., voted for the Green Party candidate Jill Stein in 2016. In 2020 he backed Andrew Yang in the Democratic primary [...]

In January, I had the odd experience of nodding along with Senator Lindsey Graham, who can usually be relied on to be wrong, as he berated the supervillain Mark Zuckerberg, [...]

Byline: Michelle Goldberg Like many progressive organizations, the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, a union that represents public defenders in the New York City area, has been convulsed by battles [...]

Every time I write, as I did last week, that I don't think anti-Zionism is necessarily antisemitic, I get emails from Jewish readers that are angry, disappointed or sometimes simply [...]

Byline: Michelle Goldberg Every time I write, as I did last week, that I don't think anti-Zionism is necessarily antisemitic, I get emails from Jewish readers that are angry, disappointed [...]

Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, has, for some reason, not bothered to take down his old Facebook posts about the Jews. ''There is a REASON [...]

At a Detroit union hall in mid-February, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan gathered representatives from local carpenters and construction unions, along with participants in an apprenticeship [...]