Biden in Crisis
The political climate for President Biden is worse this morning than it was just a few days ago. First, the polls: A New York Times/Siena College poll, released yesterday, shows…
Netflix Show Earns Its Saudi Creator Plaudits, and a Prison Sentence
From the outside, the past few years looked like the peak of Abdulaziz Almuzaini’s career. As the head of an animation studio in Saudi Arabia, he signed a five-year deal…
Opinion | No Poll Can Tell Biden What He Needs to Hear
“Will this be the thing that causes his voters to abandon him? How much will this hurt his numbers?” are questions that I, as a pollster, have been asked a…
Trump Lets Democrats Dominate the Public Debate Over Biden’s Future
Amid the flurry of Democrats’ questioning whether President Biden should or will remain his party’s presidential nominee, former President Donald J. Trump has stayed unusually quiet on the issue publicly.…
Opinion | Your Religious Values Are Not American Values
Whenever a politician cites “Judeo-Christian values,” I find it’s generally followed by something unsettling. Last month brought two flagrant instances. In both cases, Republican officials introduced state laws that formalize…
Opinion | Who Should Lead the Democratic Ticket? Six Columnists Weigh In.
With President Biden’s candidacy in question, we asked six New York Times Opinion columnists: Who would you like to see as the Democratic nominee? Read their answers below. Or listen…
Conservative Legal Movement’s Agenda Unites Court’s Rulings on Executive Power
The Supreme Court seemed to take two views of executive power this term, saying presidents should have immunity to free them from constraints while also scaling back the ability of…
On Small Islands Off Canada’s Coast, a Big Shift in Power
The Raven, the story goes, alighted on the beach and heard sounds coming from a giant clamshell. He found creatures cowering inside but, ever the trickster, he cajoled them out…
A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too
Early last year, a hacker gained access to the internal messaging systems of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and stole details about the design of the company’s A.I. technologies. The…
Europe Seeks to Solve the ‘Patriot Puzzle’ in Ukraine
A European plan to give Ukraine another Patriot air defense system to protect its battered cities from Russian airstrikes is coming together, piece by piece. The radar and three missile…