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The expression “The worse, the better” is often attributed to Vladimir Lenin, and captures a sort of messianic nihilism — the dream that escalating misery will hasten the fall of [...]

A strange thing about the presidential campaign we just endured is how many people rationalized their support for Donald Trump by arguing that he wouldn’t make good on some of [...]

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, [...]

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, and she gently [...]

Patrick Healy: Happy Election Day! What do you think will happen? Michelle Goldberg: I like the phrase lots of Democrats are using: “https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kamala-harris-campaign-early-voting-battleground-states.html.” I’d bet on Kamala Harris winning, though [...]

On Saturday evening I was watching a movie with my family when a text message made me gasp so hard that it scared them. “What happened?” my husband asked, worried. [...]

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 [...]

Listen to and follow ‘The Opinions’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube | iHeartRadio Much of the country is laser focused on the presidential election, but control of […]

Donald Trump’s MAGA Lollapalooza at Madison Square Garden on Sunday began with an iconic scene from the 1970 biopic “Patton” on the jumbotron. Strutting in front of a giant American […]

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 [...]

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 There are many damning anecdotes in Kate Conger and Ryan Mac's new book, 'Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter,' but one from February of last year [...]

It was inevitable, once Roe v. Wade was overturned and states started banning abortion, that women were going to die. Over the last two years, we've learned of countless close [...]

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 [...]

Until about a week ago, a big question in Democratic politics was whether a potential President Kamala Harris would keep Lina Khan -- the pathbreaking young lawyer loved by progressives [...]

It isn’t hard to find former Trump voters who are now supporting Kamala Harris — many of them are people who served in Donald Trump’s administration. But Rich Logis, whose [...]

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,' Trump told Musk, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The first person I met in the long line for Kamala Harris’s rally in Atlanta on Tuesday was Tomorrow Wright, a pre-K teacher who hadn’t been planning to vote when [...]

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 [...]

https://www.mediaite.com/news/just-in-candace-owens-dropped-from-trump-jr-event-promoted-with-dads-2024-campaign-logo/ The far-right media star Candace Owens thinks that Adolf Hitler is misunderstood. “They’ve turned him almost into Lord Voldemort,” she said https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhLXcvxdIyw this month. “We actually know nothing about [...]

Patrick Healy: Michelle, Lydia, Ross and David, I’ll cut to the chase: Is the Democratic Party making a mistake by quickly going all in on Kamala Harris as its likely [...]

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 [...]

Though Joe Biden’s debate performance last week was among the most painful things I’ve ever witnessed, it at least seemed to offer clarity. Suddenly, even many people who love this […]

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 [...]

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 [...]

During closing arguments in Donald Trump’s felony trial on Tuesday morning, his lawyer Todd Blanche said, “There’s a reason why, in life, usually the simplest answer is the right one.” [...]

In his closing argument on Tuesday, Donald Trump’s lead defense attorney, Todd Blanche, repeatedly tried to sell a revisionist history of the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape, in which Trump was [...]

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 [...]