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New York Times
15-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Two Opinion Columnists on Trump's Era of International Bullying
With President Trump meeting with heads of state in the Middle East this week, the Times Opinion senior international editor Krista Mahr sat down with the columnists Lydia Polgreen and Nick Kristof to talk about how the president is emboldening leaders of all kinds worldwide, and what relationships they're most worried about. Below is a transcript of an episode of 'The Opinions.' We recommend listening to it in its original form for the full effect. You can do so using the player above or on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Krista Mahr: My name is Krista Mahr. I'm the senior international editor at Times Opinion. One of the things my colleagues and I have been watching closely in the first four months of Trump's second term is how world leaders are reacting to this new administration. I wanted to talk about this so-called Trump effect with Lydia Polgreen and Nick Kristof, columnists who have reported extensively on America's relationship with the rest of the world. Lydia, Nick, welcome. Lydia Polgreen: Hi, Nick. Hi, Krista. Nicholas Kristof: Good to be with you. Mahr: So, from my perspective, it looks like there are a few different types of leadership that have emerged in response to Trump 2.0. There are the emboldened leaders like Vladimir Putin who are using Trump's foreign policy to advance their own agendas. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
New York Times
05-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Gail Collins and Bret Stephens: A Last Conversation
The Conversation has been a staple of The Times's Opinion pages since 2017. But after eight years, the weekly dialogue between the liberal columnist Gail Collins and her conservative colleague Bret Stephens has come to an end. The editor Aaron Retica joins Gail and Bret to answer reader questions and discuss how they've managed years of civil conversations — for the first and last time in audio. Below is a transcript of an episode of 'The Opinions.' We recommend listening to it in its original form for the full effect. You can do so using the player above or on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. The transcript has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Aaron Retica: I'm Aaron Retica, an editor at large in the Opinion section of The New York Times. In this job I work a lot with a number of our columnists and one of the great joys, really delights, of my life here is that I get to work on something we called The Conversation, which is a weekly dialogue between two of our columnists — Gail Collins, who is standing in for liberal America, and Bret Stephens, who is standing in for conservative America. It has appeared every Monday morning and is a crucial part of the agenda-setting and thought world of the Opinion section. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
New York Times
01-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
‘Donald Trump Will Not Be President Four Years Hence'
In a live event recorded at the Brooklyn Public Library on Tuesday, Opinion's deputy editor, Patrick Healy, was joined by the columnists Michelle Goldberg, M. Gessen and Bret Stephens to discuss how President Trump's second term has reshaped America in just 100 days. Below is a transcript of an episode of 'The Opinions.' We recommend listening to it in its original form for the full effect. You can do so using the player above or on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. The transcript has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Patrick Healy: I want to start with a premise and a provocation to kick off our conversation. My premise is this: American voters knew last year exactly what Donald Trump was capable of as president, that Trump pretty much told us what he would do if re-elected. It prompted an editorial project by my Times Opinion colleagues called 'Believe Him,' and that Trump won a free and fair election last November. So my provocation is this: America is getting the disruptive, destructive strongman presidency that millions of our fellow citizens wanted, and that Trump used these first 100 days to deliver on a mandate from November's plurality of voters. In other words, this is a presidency that more Americans voted for than voted against. And Michelle, I'm going to go to you first because you are a Brooklyn-based columnist in the house. Michelle, have the last three months been a president putting a mandate to work? Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
New York Times
24-04-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Lydia Polgreen on What's Missing in Our Conversation About Immigration
In this episode of 'The Opinions,' the deputy Opinion editor Patrick Healy talks to the columnist Lydia Polgreen about the global panic around migration, and what President Trump's efforts to curb it mean for the United States and its position in the world. Below is a transcript of an episode of 'The Opinions.' We recommend listening to it in its original form for the full effect. You can do so using the player above or on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. The transcript has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Patrick Healy: I'm Patrick Healy, deputy editor of New York Times Opinion, and this is The First 100 Days, a weekly series examining President Trump's use of power and his drive to change America. This week I wanted to talk to my colleague the columnist Lydia Polgreen. For the past year, Lydia has been reporting from around the world about migration and how the global population is shifting. She's looked at who wins and who loses when a country decides there's too much immigration. In many of the wealthiest countries, like the United States, these changes have sparked a wave of conservative political victories and policies. Now, as we all know, Donald Trump campaigned on a promise of mass deportation. That hasn't happened in a widespread way yet. But his administration has started a very public clampdown in ways that courts have ruled unlawful or unconstitutional. Trump wants to utterly reshape immigration in America and how America sees immigrants, and I wanted to talk to Lydia about what he's doing here and where it may lead our society. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
New York Times
23-04-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
After Pope Francis: A Round Table With David French
In this episode of 'The Opinions,' the Opinion columnist David French speaks with the writers and Catholics David Gibson and Leah Libresco Sargeant about the legacy of Pope Francis' leadership in an age of sharp social division. Below is a transcript of an episode of 'The Opinions.' We recommend listening to it in its original form for the full effect. You can do so using the player above or on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. The transcript has been lightly edited for length and clarity. David French: I'm David French. I'm an Opinion columnist at The Times, where I write about law, politics and religion. I'm not Catholic, but I've always admired Pope Francis. He was empathetic. He was compassionate. He cared for the most marginalized and vulnerable members of society. But I also knew that he'd become a bit of a lightning rod within the church, both because of his own statements and decisions, and because he was pope during a particularly divisive time in world history. And, of course, the church itself struggled with its own sharp divides over everything from gay rights to women's rights to the traditional Latin Mass. Pope Francis came into office promising to make a mess and to shake things up. So, to talk about how that played out in a fractured world, I'm here today with David Gibson and Leah Libresco Sargeant. David is the director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, and he once covered the Vatican as a journalist. Leah is a writer and author of the upcoming book 'Dignity of Dependence.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
