The Dave Matthews Band is on tour, as they have been every summer, except 2020, for the past 30-odd years. Like the Grateful Dead and Phish, so-called jam bands with […]
Read moreOpinion | With DeSantis Reeling, What About Tim Scott?
By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Last Sunday, I argued that despite his stagnation in the polls, for Republicans (and non-Republicans) who would prefer that Donald Trump not be renominated for […]
Read moreOpinion | Diversity Programs Miss the Point of a Liberal College Education
Academia is in the midst of a generational turmoil. Blue states such as California and Oregon have recently transformed their public universities with expansive “diversity, equity and inclusion” programs that […]
Read moreThe Covid Origins Debate
Did Covid jump from an animal to a person at a food market in Wuhan, China — or leak from a research lab there? That question remains the pandemic’s central […]
Read moreOpinion | Undoing Health System Monopolies May Be a Lost Cause
When Mark Finney moved to southwestern Virginia with his young family a decade ago, there were different hospital systems and a range of independent doctors to choose from. But when […]
Read moreOpinion | 33 Reading Recommendations for Your Summer Vacation
Hosted by Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat, Carlos Lozada and Lydia Polgreen Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music The New York Times Audio app includes podcasts, […]
Read moreOpinion | Putin Is Doubling Down on Failure
In the wake of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed rebellion, it seems as if Russia’s leaders are living in an alternate reality. The sequence of events speaks for itself. Russian troops waved […]
Read moreOpinion | Twitter Shows, Again, the Failure of the New Right’s Theory of Power
If you spend much time online, you witnessed something remarkable last week. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, launched a competitor to Twitter called Threads, and the public […]
Read moreOpinion | Scapegoated by Everyone, Wanted by No One
Opinion | Weighing the Morality of Giving Ukraine Cluster Munitions
More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “The Flawed Moral Logic of Sending Cluster Munitions to Ukraine” (editorial, July 11): Long may your civilized arguments, generated from your safe […]
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