“Audiences should more often encounter classical music with projections even when the music was not written for a movie,” John McWhorter writes.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration could revoke Temporary Protected Status from Haitian and Syrian immigrants. “T.P.S. holders nationwide have been bracing for the worst, and now it’s here: family separations, loss of employment and deportations,” Elora Mukherjee writes.

“We have a long way to go to lift all poor people into the middle class, or higher,” Joseph P. Petito writes in a letter to The Times. “But we shouldn’t aim to do this by taking away what the middle class and the wealthy have earned, or by building resentment.”

What if we don’t actually have a competitive two-party system? What if our nation actually has two one-party systems, instead? And if the United States has two one-party systems, then that means voters are constantly confronted with the stagnation and corruption that disfigures single-party rule.

interesting to see the different takes on this prompt. mine is basically what you'd expect.

“Americans don’t have to choose between an assault on higher education and a status quo built to serve a privileged few,” James S. Murphy and Ryan Cieslikowski write.

“What if we don’t actually have a competitive two-party system? What if our nation actually has two one-party systems, instead?” Our colunist David French is asking.

On this week’s episode of “Interesting Times,” Louise Perry, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal’s Free Expression section, shares her view on the roots of gender polarization with our columnist Ross Douthat.

For the last 250 years, America has been a country that never stands still. We asked Times Opinion columnists and writers to choose a moment from our complicated history that represents the best of what this country can be.

“This is an era of illusion, and Musk and Trump are the self-adoring, self-promoting emblems and emperors of it,” Frank Bruni tells Bret Stephens in their conversation this week.

“While A.I. might help in the abstract, people are more worried about a socioeconomic trapdoor opening beneath their feet and eroding that stability,” Paul Kedrosky writes.

As many Democratic primary voters see it, “they’ve been failed by a cautious, compromising establishment, and they’re going to overthrow it,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes. “The Democratic version of the Tea Party is here, with dramatic implications for the midterms.”

Before the war in Iran, “the term ‘energy security’ tended to mean the need for fossil fuel,” David Wallace-Wells writes; “after, it seems to describe a growing awareness that renewable resources may be much safer and more reliable sources of power.”

In an age of megalooting by the most powerful, why are we so obsessed with small time shoplifting? I wrote about the movie of the summer, "I Love Boosters," a delightfully unhinged heist movie perfectly tuned to our times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/o...

“For many, the choice is not between working remotely and working on-site; it is between working from home and not working at all,” Katherine Gallagher Robbins writes in a letter to The Times.

Trumpian policy failures such as going to war with Iran and slashing Medicaid “take a lot of intellectual and emotional bandwidth to process,” Michelle Cottle writes. “Some guy wasting a pile of money on a shoddy remodel? Everyone gets how pathetic and hilarious that is.”

“Part anticapitalist satire, part buddy comedy, part heist movie, ‘I Love Boosters’ is a messy, brilliant sendup of the absurd contradictions of our savage era of inequality and political corruption,” our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes.

“A Fed chair should come to conclusions only after consulting history, scrutinizing the data and weighing alternative hypotheses — not because of what he said when he was campaigning for the job,” David Wessel writes.

“There are some very large, powerful forces at play” when it comes to the peace deal with Iran, our columnist Thomas Friedman says on “The Opinions.” And one of those, he argues, is that “Donald Trump needs this war to be over politically.”

“For decades, Israel has spoken in the idiom of self-reliance while living inside the architecture of American protection,” Yonatan Touval writes.

“Let’s not look away from the parts we played in bringing America to this moment,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes. “Let’s remember who we once were, because it’s what we may yet be again — if only we feel the sting of our present shame.”

“Like the pool itself, Mr. Trump has provided a moment of sparkle with no substance. The problem that existed before he got involved ends up being worse,” Adam Michels writes in a letter to The Times.

When I’m in my more optimistic moments, I think we’ll look back at last year as the high-water mark of Trumpism, when the combination of arrogance after Trump’s victory and the inherent authoritarianism of the Trumpist project led to a unique period of state violence and legal corruption.

“Wonky as it may be, fixing Congress turns out to be the meta-issue of our time,” says Steven Pearlstein, a professor of public affairs at George Mason University.

Nirav Shah, a former top health official in Maine during the COVID-19 pandemic, “stands out for the good will he built up throughout those challenging years, which he effectively translated into a run for governor that went further than anyone expected,” Rachael Bedard writes.

“We don’t agree on everything,” write Senators Bernie Moreno and Elizabeth Warren, “but here’s one thing we do agree on: Congress must act now to save Social Security for generations of Americans to come.”

The Florida gubernatorial candidate David Jolly is “hoping his nonthreatening, relatively nonpartisan approach will be enough to win over swing voters skeptical of Democrats,” Michael Grunwald writes.

The question, after Colombia’s election, is not whether the country has moved left or right, writes Michael Shifter. “It is whether its democratic institutions are strong enough to channel yet another wave of anti-establishment politics without sacrificing the rule of law.”

“Iran, by all rights, should not be one of America’s top problems. One day, one way or another, it will cease to be. The question is when, and at how terrible a price,” Robert Malley and Stephen Wertheim write.

“Whatever else, Alan Greenspan should be remembered for what is surely the rarest virtue among public officials: admitting error,” Roger Lowenstein writes.

“How can Iranians (or Americans) take our pledges seriously when our top leader repeatedly violates them?” Paul deLespinasse writes in a letter to The Times.

“As genetic testing has become cheaper and more widespread, scientists around the globe are aiming to sequence tens of thousands of infants to study the feasibility of offering this type of testing to millions of babies at birth,” Daniela Lamas writes.

“Like many others, I believe A.I. could lower employment. But unlike most, I don’t necessarily blame the technology itself. Instead, I worry about the potency of the fear it is generating,” Robert Shiller writes.

The runaway success of “Obsessions” and “Backrooms” might make the Hollywood system seem obsolete. But this moment is a necessary infusion of energy, argues Tom Rothman, chief executive of Sony Pictures, and a validation of how the industry best operates.

Keir Starmer's "fall is a very British story," Samuel Earle wrote in May. "But the Democrats, casting about for an election strategy, should pay attention — for Mr. Starmer’s collapse was written into the nature of his victory."

Some bosses say full-time, in-person work boosts productivity or collaboration. “Our new research reveals that the objection to any work from home is more likely to be driven by something else entirely: ego,” write Adam Grant, Marissa Shandell and Courtney Elliott.

”The vote to leave the European Union was a real cry of pain from a large section of the electorate that thought itself left behind by economic progress,” Philip Stephens writes about Brexit, which was voted on 10 years ago this week. “The desperation remains. The ‘sunlit meadows’ were a mirage.”

“Menopause is a work force issue, a health issue and a dignity issue,” Christopher Henze writes in a letter to The Times.

“The minute you are convinced that you have grasped something true about God, it dissolves in you,” the poet Christian Wiman tells Peter Wehner.

“The Trump administration is the nation’s chief threat to the rule of law,” our columnist David French writes.

“You need a thick skin to be a parent,” Zach Ellams writes in an illustrated guest essay. “I’ve been living as a trans man since I was 18 years old. But when my wife and I had Elliot, I had to learn how to be a trans dad.”

“As the war in Iran appears to come to a fragile close, Americans are left to wonder why it has accomplished so little,” Oona Hathaway writes, adding, “Put simply: Because the United States attempted to essentially go it alone.”

Of all the numbers David Lay Williams has seen about Elon Musk’s new status as a trillionaire, “the one that struck me most forcefully was a calculation in The Times that Mr. Musk’s net worth is five million times as large as that of the average American family,” he writes.

The opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago and the Knicks parade in New York City represent “both a heartening reminder that we have not, as a public, abandoned our highest values, and a sad commentary on the political leaders who have,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.

What does JD Vance really believe? On “The Opinions,” Michelle Cottle, Carlos Lozada and E.J. Dionne Jr. share their views on the vice president’s new memoir, “Communion.”

The system that turned Gila monster venom into GLP-1 drugs is now being dismantled through budget cuts for scientific research, Jeff Coller writes. “Less support for scientists means strange questions no one will get to chase. Exploring those questions is how medicine advances.”

“Trump’s fundamental mistake was not ending the war but getting into it in the first place,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.

“The president as a maniacal urban planner is a white-knuckle ride, with Washington — and Washingtonians — just holding on for dear life,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes.

“I would undo his death if I could,” Megan Stack writes of her father. “But the end of him was also the beginning of me. It set me on a path toward everything that I now hold most precious.”

“America’s empire is ultimately built on overwhelming military, economic, financial and knowledge power,” Herman Mark Schwartz says in a written Q & A with Times Opinion.