I wrote about Trump's fantasy of omnipotence and invulnerability crashing against the material reality of a interdependent world. This insane, heedless war will ruin us all. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...
“What we need is a new grand bargain between the public and private sectors — one in which employers are held responsible for defining skills essential to the A.I. economy and for creating pathways into jobs,” writes Gina Raimondo, the secretary of commerce under the Biden administration.
“It’s very much true that in Washington, debating regime change in Iran is as common as debating whether to order Chipotle for lunch,” Michael Brendan Dougherty says.
“In Donald Trump’s fantasy world, America is invincible and impregnable,” our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes. “That fantasy of omnipotence has come crashing into reality.”
The character “Daryl Hannah” portrayed in the TV series “Love Story,” Daryl Hannah writes, “is not even a remotely accurate representation of my life, my conduct or my relationship” with John F. Kennedy Jr.
What is happening between Anthropic and the Pentagon? On this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show,” Ezra talks to Dean Ball, the former A.I. policy advisor to the Trump administration.
”Respect never seemed to be part of the equation” between Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, Michelle Cottle writes. “It’s hard to respect someone so eager to remake herself for your attention.”
“By trying to silence journalists, autocrats and aspiring autocrats hope to make the world ignore what they are doing. The rest of us should refuse to do so,” the editorial board writes.
“The warnings of the past remain unheeded," the historian Stephen Schlesinger writes about the U.S. war in Iran in a letter to The Times.
“For all its Trumpian characteristics, this war is the logical conclusion of how the United States has long dealt with Iran,” Robert Malley and Stephen Wertheim write.
“Do you actually believe that democratic values and freedom were the motivations here?” Frank Bruni asks Bret Stephens in their conversation this week.
Talked to Ezra Klein about the war in Iran - how we got here, where we're going, and what I'm worried about. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...
Is a war with Iran what Trump — or his voters — had in mind when he campaigned on “America first”? On this episode of “Interesting Times,” our columnist Ross Douthat talks to Curt Mills, the executive director of The American Conservative, a magazine that champions foreign policy restraint.
“Sonny Burton is not a killer. No one disputes this. Yet he has spent nearly half his life on death row,” Elizabeth Vartkessian writes. “Unless Kay Ivey, the governor of Alabama, decides to commute Mr. Burton’s sentence, the state is set to kill him on March 12.”
President Trump “forced the largest and purportedly most powerful law firms in the country to demean themselves and bow before him,” Jeffrey Toobin writes. “They proved to be such cowards that they surrendered when the president didn’t even have the law on his side.”
“If the rise of A.I. leads to a modest brain drain from the professions into fields such as construction and carpentry, it might also cause us to re-evaluate the prestige that we assign to certain types of labor but not others,” Michael Steinberger writes.
“One way of understanding the past decade of populism is to see it as the worldwide howl of voters who feel that in the age of globalization and the new financial elite they are losing control over key aspects of their lives,” David Wallace-Wells writes.
“Texas politics is actually in constant churn,” Christopher Hooks, a writer and Texas native, says. “The relationship between the two parties is constantly changing, and the Republican Party here is essentially an entirely different party than it was 12 years ago.”
“The rhetoric of liberation is cheap, whereas the cost of actually delivering on it is not,” Peter Klein writes. “Before Iranians bet their lives on the United States’ commitment, they deserve to know the odds.”
“Making a pitch for industrial food is tantamount to making a pitch for the health benefits of social media: It won’t harm you, as long as you don’t digest too much of it,” Joshua Greene writes in a letter to The Times.
“Block’s latest reorganization reads like standard prioritization and cost management, not an A.I.-driven reinvention,” Aaron Zamost writes about Jack Dorsey’s tech company, formerly known as Square.
Inspired by the 1964 Freedom Summer movement, “a network of hundreds of schools and allied organizations are uniting for Democracy Summer, a nationwide program to educate citizens and protect our elections in the coming year,” writes Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan University.
James Talarico just won the Texas Democratic Senate primary. In January, he spoke with our columnist @ezraklein.bsky.social about his faith, his politics and the way those two have come together in this moment.
“The oldest members of Gen X are approaching 65, and their financial situation — the amount of savings they currently have, when they expect to start collecting Social Security — may be worse than that of their Boomer counterparts,” Jessica Grose writes.
That Ken Paxton “has come so far without explicit support from the White House cannot be seen as anything other than a victory for the Texas attorney general and his brand of politics,” writes Kevin Williamson.
The permanence of Ayatollah Khamenei’s image in Iran signified the control of the regime, Azadeh Moaveni writes. Now that he is dead, “will another face replace his and carry on a version of the same story, collapsing what is true and what is false?”
If Russia has, to quote President Trump, “all the cards” in its fight against Ukraine, “why has it achieved so little?" Lawrence Freedman asks. “Why has its progress been so often frustrated by a much smaller army’s resilience and innovative tactics, as well as its own operational weaknesses?”
As shown in Netflix’s new documentary series, “America’s Next Top Model” is “an artifact of what was once, apparently, acceptable,” Robin Givhan writes. “And, I might add, what was expected.”
“Let’s think about the Iran war in the light of Donald Trump’s career to date,” Ross Douthat writes. “Obviously there is more to the story here than just Trump’s instincts. But I think it makes sense to put them at the center of the story, rather than Israeli influence or Saudi pressure.”
“What happens if a reconstituted autocratic regime is still in place in Tehran?” Dan Donovan writes in a letter to The Times. “What happens if Iran is still able to construct ballistic missiles? What happens if Iran’s nuclear material program is still operational to some extent?”
