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The show “Landman,” Antonia Juhasz writes, “acts less as a vehicle for pro-oil propaganda than an indictment of the entire industry.”
Opinion | What ‘Landman’ Understands About Oil
The show does far more to criticize the oil and gas industry than it does to bolster it.
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January 18, 2026 at 9:01 AM
The show “Landman,” Antonia Juhasz writes, “acts less as a vehicle for pro-oil propaganda than an indictment of the entire industry.”
“Ask anyone who has lived in a country that became an autocracy, and they will tell you some version of a story about walls closing in on them, about space getting smaller and smaller. The space they are talking about is freedom,” writes our columnist M. Gessen.
Opinion | One Year Later, What Kind of Country Have We Become?
The United States is broken, but not in every way.
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January 18, 2026 at 6:15 AM
“Ask anyone who has lived in a country that became an autocracy, and they will tell you some version of a story about walls closing in on them, about space getting smaller and smaller. The space they are talking about is freedom,” writes our columnist M. Gessen.
"Faced with an angry public but committed to a rigid agenda of nativist brutality, the president and his coterie of ideologues are playing the only move they seem to have: wanton violence and threats of further escalation," writes Jamelle Bouie. "They think this will break their opposition."
Opinion | This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play
Minneapolis in 2026 is starting to look like Boston in the 1770s.
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January 17, 2026 at 8:08 PM
"Faced with an angry public but committed to a rigid agenda of nativist brutality, the president and his coterie of ideologues are playing the only move they seem to have: wanton violence and threats of further escalation," writes Jamelle Bouie. "They think this will break their opposition."
“You don’t have to be a Marxist to see that economic conditions may have more to do with people’s reluctance to marry and start families than individual ambition,” Stephen Kessler writes in a letter to The Times.
Opinion | In Search of Love and Meaning in a Changing World
Readers respond to a column by David Brooks.
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January 17, 2026 at 6:36 PM
“You don’t have to be a Marxist to see that economic conditions may have more to do with people’s reluctance to marry and start families than individual ambition,” Stephen Kessler writes in a letter to The Times.
“How often do we get to glimpse something we thought we’d missed, that we’d never seen before and thought we never would? It’s rare, and I was lucky,” Sophie Haigney writes.
Opinion | You’re Never Too Young to Love the Grateful Dead
I was interested in the lost world this music conjured, a world of teenagers like my aunts who had left home young and hit the road.
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January 17, 2026 at 4:57 PM
“How often do we get to glimpse something we thought we’d missed, that we’d never seen before and thought we never would? It’s rare, and I was lucky,” Sophie Haigney writes.
“Donald of Deliria is wallowing in brute force,” writes Maureen Dowd.
Opinion | Behold Donald of Deliria!
Trump, sinking into the quicksand of imperialism.
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January 17, 2026 at 3:37 PM
“Donald of Deliria is wallowing in brute force,” writes Maureen Dowd.
The 2026 midterm elections are going to be “a break glass in the case of emergency sort of election,” David French says on this round-table episode of “The Opinions.”
Opinion | Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?
The midterms will be a battle for control of Trump’s legacy.
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January 17, 2026 at 3:14 PM
The 2026 midterm elections are going to be “a break glass in the case of emergency sort of election,” David French says on this round-table episode of “The Opinions.”
“Why should Americans risk their lives and spend billions of dollars defending Taiwanese who aren’t clearly willing to make major sacrifices themselves?” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
Opinion | How War With China Begins
Even more likely than an all-out invasion of Taiwan may be “gray zone” pressures, such as cutting internet cables.
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January 17, 2026 at 2:40 PM
“Why should Americans risk their lives and spend billions of dollars defending Taiwanese who aren’t clearly willing to make major sacrifices themselves?” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
One year into Trump’s second term, “America risks losing a central feature of our democracy: that we are a country ruled by laws, not by one man,” writes the Times editorial board.
Opinion | One Year In, Trump’s Attack on American Justice is Accelerating
One year into the president’s second term, America risks losing a central feature of our democracy: that we are a country ruled by laws, not by the whims of one man.
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January 17, 2026 at 1:13 PM
One year into Trump’s second term, “America risks losing a central feature of our democracy: that we are a country ruled by laws, not by one man,” writes the Times editorial board.
“The F.B.I. raid on the home of a Washington Post reporter on Wednesday took the Trump administration’s attacks on press freedoms to a troubling new level,” writes the lawyer David Schulz.
Opinion | By Raiding a Reporter’s Home, Is the F.B.I. Is Weaponizing National Security?
Knowing what the government is up to is essential for democracy to work.
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January 17, 2026 at 12:15 AM
“The F.B.I. raid on the home of a Washington Post reporter on Wednesday took the Trump administration’s attacks on press freedoms to a troubling new level,” writes the lawyer David Schulz.
Patrick Hamilton writes in a letter to The Times, about President Trump: “These are the actions of a man who increasingly feels that he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, to whomever his wishes. In other words, a dictator.”
Opinion | Trump’s New Military Threat to Minnesota
Readers react to the unrest in Minnesota. Also: Parallels to the past; the Nobel Peace Prize medal; nuclear power; Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Patrick Hamilton writes in a letter to The Times, about President Trump: “These are the actions of a man who increasingly feels that he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, to whomever his wishes. In other words, a dictator.”
“‘Dilbert’ was a war cry against the management class—the system of deluded jerks you work for who think they know better. Workers posted it on their cubicles like resistance fighters chalking V’s on walls in occupied Paris,” writes Joel Stein.
Opinion | ‘Dilbert' Cartoonist Scott Adams Was Always MAGA
My visit with Scott Adams, who anticipated Donald Trump with his comic strip.
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January 16, 2026 at 7:51 PM
“‘Dilbert’ was a war cry against the management class—the system of deluded jerks you work for who think they know better. Workers posted it on their cubicles like resistance fighters chalking V’s on walls in occupied Paris,” writes Joel Stein.
"What we are seeing right now is heavily armed individuals wearing masks, as you said, going to places and stopping people based on their appearance. And no civil society should allow that," Francisco Segovia tells Ross Douthat on this episode of “Interesting Times."
Opinion | Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’
Documenting ICE is dangerous. This man wants you to do it anyway.
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January 16, 2026 at 6:36 PM
"What we are seeing right now is heavily armed individuals wearing masks, as you said, going to places and stopping people based on their appearance. And no civil society should allow that," Francisco Segovia tells Ross Douthat on this episode of “Interesting Times."
"In the opposition and in the Cuban diaspora, what happened in Venezuela is being interpreted as a sign that the unchangeable might change,” Yoani Sánchez writes.
Opinion | Fear of Venezuelan Oil Loss Is Stalking Cubans
The electricity may go off, but islanders see a glimmer of hope in Maduro’s departure.
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January 16, 2026 at 5:51 PM
"In the opposition and in the Cuban diaspora, what happened in Venezuela is being interpreted as a sign that the unchangeable might change,” Yoani Sánchez writes.
“Fear is the cement of every authoritarian structure,” Abbas Milani writes. “When it dissipates, the usual tools of oppression, from prisons and thugs, to murder and official media, lose their power to dissuade a disgruntled population from rising up.”
Opinion | Iran’s Regime Is Losing Its Greatest Weapon: Fear
The bulwark of Iranian oppression is fear. The latest round of demonstrations shows it has been breached.
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January 16, 2026 at 4:52 PM
“Fear is the cement of every authoritarian structure,” Abbas Milani writes. “When it dissipates, the usual tools of oppression, from prisons and thugs, to murder and official media, lose their power to dissuade a disgruntled population from rising up.”
“It took only weeks for conservative demagogues to direct their venom toward the middle-class women of the Resistance,” the columnist Michelle Goldberg writes. "We’re now seeing an outpouring of misogynist rage driven by both political expedience and psychosexual grievance."
Opinion | The Right Is Furious With Liberal White Women
In the MAGA imagination, white women are supposed to be helpmeets, not harpies.
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January 16, 2026 at 4:02 PM
“It took only weeks for conservative demagogues to direct their venom toward the middle-class women of the Resistance,” the columnist Michelle Goldberg writes. "We’re now seeing an outpouring of misogynist rage driven by both political expedience and psychosexual grievance."
Trump wants to buy Greenland. Its former colonizer has some thoughts on why that’s a terrible idea.
Opinion | Dear Trump, Buying Greenland Is a Bad Idea
Trump wants Greenland? Its previous colonizer has some thoughts.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Trump wants to buy Greenland. Its former colonizer has some thoughts on why that’s a terrible idea.
“The categories we use to understand people get in the way of actually understanding them,” our columnist David Brooks writes.
Opinion | This Is How Your Mind Works
Our thoughts are an ever-changing swirl of fears, feelings, desires, impulses, memories and body sensations that interact to form a single mind.
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January 16, 2026 at 12:09 PM
“The categories we use to understand people get in the way of actually understanding them,” our columnist David Brooks writes.
How much has President Trump actually accomplished one year into his second term? Yuval Levin, a conservative thinker and the director of social, cultural and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute, says there has been an “absence of durable action,” on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
Opinion | A Conservative Critiques Trump’s First Year
The conservative political analyst Yuval Levin gives Ezra Klein his review of Trump’s first year back in office.
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January 16, 2026 at 11:08 AM
How much has President Trump actually accomplished one year into his second term? Yuval Levin, a conservative thinker and the director of social, cultural and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute, says there has been an “absence of durable action,” on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
“As it moves toward greater autonomy, outside powers should recognize a simple truth: Greenland is not a prize to be claimed, but a nation shaping its future,” Peter Strandberg writes in a letter to The Times from Helsinki, Finland.
Opinion | The Geopolitics of Greenland and NATO
Readers respond to articles about the U.S. threats against Greenland. Also: A woman’s aging face.
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January 15, 2026 at 6:12 PM
“As it moves toward greater autonomy, outside powers should recognize a simple truth: Greenland is not a prize to be claimed, but a nation shaping its future,” Peter Strandberg writes in a letter to The Times from Helsinki, Finland.
“I’m as law-and-order as it gets. But what’s happening in Minneapolis seems more like a foreign invasion than law enforcement, with more ICE agents in the city than police. And what I saw in that video was neither law nor order,” our columnist Bret Stephens says.
Opinion | The Gaudy, Nasty Fictions of Donald J. Trump
This is neither law nor order, and the consequences can be deadly.
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January 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
“I’m as law-and-order as it gets. But what’s happening in Minneapolis seems more like a foreign invasion than law enforcement, with more ICE agents in the city than police. And what I saw in that video was neither law nor order,” our columnist Bret Stephens says.
President Trump “has a story to tell about Latin America, and it isn’t pretty,” the historian Greg Grandin writes. “He likes to play the role of the business cutthroat — a corporate pirate devoid of any ideology, save greed.”
Opinion | The One Place Presidents Turn in Moments of Chaos and Uncertainty
For presidents of both parties, Latin America has served as a wellspring of perpetual reinvention and the source of much of their ideological creativity.
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January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
President Trump “has a story to tell about Latin America, and it isn’t pretty,” the historian Greg Grandin writes. “He likes to play the role of the business cutthroat — a corporate pirate devoid of any ideology, save greed.”
“It is often said that might does not make right; it is less well understood that right can make might, as Abraham Lincoln once said. Voluntary alliances of liberal democracies have proven to be the strongest,” our columnist David French writes.
Opinion | Something Is Rotten in the State of America
This is the thanks Demark gets?
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January 15, 2026 at 3:33 PM
“It is often said that might does not make right; it is less well understood that right can make might, as Abraham Lincoln once said. Voluntary alliances of liberal democracies have proven to be the strongest,” our columnist David French writes.
Despite electoral wins in 2025, “to have any hope of fixing the root problems that plague our democracy and our economy, Democrats need a majority that lasts, like the New Deal coalition,” the veteran Democratic strategist David Plouffe writes.
Opinion | David Plouffe: To Win Everywhere, Democrats Must Change Everything
Despite the successes of 2025, the party still needs a radical shake up.
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January 15, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Despite electoral wins in 2025, “to have any hope of fixing the root problems that plague our democracy and our economy, Democrats need a majority that lasts, like the New Deal coalition,” the veteran Democratic strategist David Plouffe writes.
The ICE shooting in Minneapolis “has the potential to reshape how people think about the ‘how’ — how the government is going about doing the things Trump promised to do, sometimes with significant consequences,” Kristen Soltis Anderson says in a written conversation with Nate Silver.
Opinion | 2 Polling Experts on How the ICE Shooting Is More Trouble for Trump
The general sense of the world being chaotic does not necessarily help Trump.
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January 15, 2026 at 12:33 PM
The ICE shooting in Minneapolis “has the potential to reshape how people think about the ‘how’ — how the government is going about doing the things Trump promised to do, sometimes with significant consequences,” Kristen Soltis Anderson says in a written conversation with Nate Silver.