By Thomas B. Edsall Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality. A highly charged ideological transition reflecting a “massive four-decade long shift in political values and attitudes among more educated people — a shift from concern with traditional materialist issues like redistribution to a concern for public goods […]

We are living in the world pornography has made. For more than three decades, researchers have documented that it desensitizes consumers to violence and spreads rape myths and other lies about women’s sexuality. In doing so, it normalizes itself, becoming ever more pervasive, intrusive and dangerous, surrounding us ever more intimately, grooming the culture so […]

America’s school board meetings are out of control. Forget sonorous debates over capital improvements and annual budgets. Today’s gatherings are ground zero for some of the nation’s nastiest brawls over the hyper-politicized issue of mask mandates. Meetings are being overrun by protesters voicing their objections to face-coverings in classrooms — replete with mask-themed conspiracy theories, […]

Covid deaths surge across a weary U.S. A summer that began with plunging caseloads and real hope that the worst of Covid-19 had passed is ending with soaring death counts, full hospitals and a bitter realization that the pandemic is far from over in the U.S. The country is now reporting more than 160,000 new […]

In the late summer of 1921, an epic but surprisingly little-known confrontation took place between the forces of labor and capital. The battle unfolded not in one of the great industrial cities but in the rural coal country of southern West Virginia. Miners in the region — angered by life-threatening working conditions, corporate domination of […]

My 18-year-old daughter appears in the kitchen in a Ruth Bader Ginsburg sweatshirt, makes a mug of Rice Krispies treats in the microwave, and shows me a photo on her phone of two sloths hugging. That’s Claire. Like yours, she’s one of a kind. Like yours, she’s irreplaceable. Since her sister left home for college […]

On Aug 27, the National University of Singapore (NUS) announced that Yale-NUS College would stop accepting new students and merge with the University Scholars Programme to form a new college. While touted as a merger, many commentators – including alumni and Yale itself – have called it a closure, with students expressing grief and anger […]

By Steven Greenhouse Mr. Greenhouse reported on labor and workplace issues for The New York Times for 19 years. He is the author of “Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor.” This past spring, Representative Jim Banks of Indiana, chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, wrote a curious policy […]

By Luke Winkie Mr. Winkie is a writer in Brooklyn. He has written for Times Opinion about the bittersweetness of watching old sporting events during the pandemic and why New Yorkers who fled the city in the spring of 2020 should pay a tax before returning. My girlfriend and I wasted no time this spring. […]

In a speech on Tuesday, President Biden identified his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan with his desire to end the “forever war.” But he also promised that America will “maintain the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan and in other countries.” The reality today, he said, is that “we don’t need to fight a ground war […]