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Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicHundreds of thousands of migrants, many seeking asylum, have arrived in the United States over the last year, overwhelming already-strained resources in cities and states across the country. Last week, in arguably one of the most immigration-friendly cities in the country, Mayor Eric Adams said that migrants would “destroy New York City.”This week on “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts discuss how the “border crisis” has come to frustrate Democratic politicians further north, and why the conversation about immigration is always actually about who we are as Americans. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Persons: Eric Adams Organizations: Spotify, Democratic, Times Locations: United States, New York City, ”

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicClassrooms have been a key battleground in the so-called woke wars for years now. But could the debate over how schools teach history, race, gender and sexuality be coming to an end? This week on “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts look at signs that these wedge issues are no longer dividing us, ask whether we have reached “peak woke” and disagree on whether it’s even worth fighting about wokeness at all. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

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Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicIt’s been 18 months since Russia invaded Ukraine. As the stalemate continues, what role should the United States play in the fight? This week on “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts discuss how the war is playing out at home and why the G.O.P. Plus, a trip back in time to a magical land of sorcerers and “Yo! MTV Raps.”(A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Persons: It’s Organizations: Spotify, Times Locations: Russia, Ukraine, United States, Mexico

But in advance of this debate, I did go back and watch the 2015 Republican debate. michelle cottleOK. I’m going to jump in here with the message may be great, but the messenger was absolutely atrocious. But I thought it was really, really interesting. carlos lozadaNo, no, no, but no, here’s what — no, I mean, I’m not inclined to. And then, I’m going to put the interests of Americans first, which is just an America first riff.

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☆ Opinion | In a Report From a Distant Border, I Glimpsed Our Brutal Future
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Lydia Polgreen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Once in a while, some single thing manages to encapsulate all that feels terrible about our world today. For me, this week, it was a bone-chilling report from Human Rights Watch documenting how Saudi border guards had killed hundreds — perhaps thousands — of Ethiopians seeking to cross from Yemen into Saudi Arabia. I realized what I thought were people sleeping around me were actually dead bodies.” There were bloodied corpses all around her. Another survivor, a 17-year-old boy, described being forced by Saudi guards to rape two girls after another man who had been asked to do the same was executed for refusing. In these reports from a remote corner of a distant desert, I saw a glimpse of the unrelenting cruelty that is our future.

Persons: Hamdiya, Prince Mohammed bin Salman Organizations: Human Rights Watch, Saudi, Washington Post Locations: Saudi, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Istanbul

☆ Why the Indigo Girls Are So Popular Right Now - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Lydia Polgreen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

My wife said to me the other day that you know a song is great if singing it makes you feel you can actually sing. There is a chemical reaction that happens; the DNA of the song fuses with your chromosomes and becomes something new. Or you can meet them with a sense of possibility, grounded in reality, loosely tethered to something like hope. When we are young, we feel that way because we don’t know any better. Eventually you get to a place where you know all the ways it can go wrong and feel open anyway.

Persons: Amy, Emily, they’re, We’ve, We’re, It’s, Barbie Locations: China

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicElite colleges are facing a reckoning over their admissions practices. But is there a case for upholding policies that give preferential treatment to some students? On this episode of “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts examine whether it really matters if you go to Harvard and what the upside could be of favoring family connections. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

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☆ Can Good Journalism Change the World? - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Lydia Polgreen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

War arrived on their doorstep, and each of them, somehow, found the courage to meet it. Chernov was an artist who increasingly moved to making news photos and videos when Russia menaced and ultimately invaded Ukraine. Stepanenko, the daughter of a pioneer of hip-hop dance in Ukraine, was just 22 years old during the siege of Mariupol. A woman on the verge of giving birth is carried out of a bombed hospital, dazed, bleeding, clutching her swollen belly. I have watched helplessly as friends and colleagues have been jailed, beaten and killed simply for trying to do their work with honor and integrity.

Persons: Chernov, Maloletka, Vladimir Putin’s, wails Organizations: Stepanenko Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Mariupol

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicChristopher Nolan’s blockbuster hit “Oppenheimer” tells the story of the father of the atomic bomb and the invention he hoped would end all wars. (Spoiler alert: It did not.) On “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts discuss how history should view J. Robert Oppenheimer — naïve martyr or crybaby? — and whether we have more to fear from nuclear weapons in the age of artificial intelligence. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Persons: Christopher Nolan’s, “ Oppenheimer ”, J, Robert Oppenheimer — Organizations: Spotify, Amazon, Times

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicThe New York Times Audio app includes podcasts, narrated articles from the newsroom and other publishers, as well as exclusive new shows — including this one — which we’re making available to readers for a limited time. Download the audio app here. On this week’s “Matter of Opinion,” Michelle, Ross, Carlos and Lydia offer their recommendations for your summer reading and lay out what they’re excited to dive into themselves. Plus, listener book picks. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Persons: ” Michelle, Ross, Carlos, Lydia Organizations: Spotify, New York Times, Times

The New York Times Audio app includes podcasts, narrated articles from the newsroom and other publishers, as well as exclusive new shows — including this one — which we’re making available to readers for a limited time. Download the audio app here. In just one week, more than 100 million people have signed up for Meta’s new Threads app. On “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts ask why so many people are joining, given how much we love to hate on social media, and whether “social” media is even social anymore. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Organizations: New York Times, Times

☆ Don’t Be Fooled by the Fake Uproar Over Woke Capitalism - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Lydia Polgreen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Netflix, the once unstoppable juggernaut that seemed likely to eat Hollywood for breakfast, is an interesting case in point. As its growth has slowed and the political climate has changed, it reportedly shelved a plan to produce an anti-racist video series. Our systems of government increasingly favor electoral minorities — like gerrymandered state legislatures in a polarized environment — rather than common-sense compromise. rights, we are tilting ever more toward a system that allows a fanatical minority to impose its views as law. But woke capitalism is a paper tiger.

Persons: George Floyd, Thomas Frank, “, Reagan, ” Organizations: Netflix, Elites Locations: America

lydia polgreenI’m Lydia Polgreen, and this is “Matter of Opinion.” Today, we’re going to do something a little bit different. And the great sort of brilliant twist of the show is at the end, the winner is chosen by the people that the contestants have voted off. Like, that just seems really, really American. I don’t think we need to go that far, but she is the best version of America, like America as it fancies itself to be. And if they happen to come out while I’m outside, I’m like, you!

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The New York Times Audio app includes podcasts, narrated articles from the newsroom and other publishers, as well as exclusive new shows — including this one — which we’re making available to readers for a limited time. Download the Audio app here. According to David Grusch, a former intelligence official who recently alleged that the U.S. government is secretly storing alien spacecraft, the answer is yes. He is, of course, not the first person to make a claim like this, but lawmakers appear to be taking him far more seriously than previous would-be whistle-blowers. On this week’s episode of “Matter of Opinion,” our hosts discuss what the government is and isn’t telling us, and what the obsession with classified cover-ups says about our complicated relationship with power.

Persons: David Grusch, what’s Organizations: New York Times Locations: America

☆ Opinion | Death and Displacement Return to Darfur
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Lydia Polgreen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Darfur was loosely and sometimes imprecisely divided between Black and Arab communities, many of whom had deeper ties with the Sahelian peoples of Chad and Niger. These ill-fitting parts have formed a kind of booby trap, plunging Sudan into cycles of violent strife. The region seceded by referendum in 2011, becoming the Republic of South Sudan, generally considered the most recent widely recognized nation on Earth. Ultimately Sudan’s president, al-Bashir, would be charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court for his role in the slaughter. Now, the two generals who overthrew al-Bashir have turned their guns on each other, with the Sudanese people caught between them.

Persons: Sudan’s, Bashir, Alex de Waal, Mohamed Hamdan, Abdel Fattah al, Burhan, al Organizations: Democratic, Rebels, International, Court, Rapid Support Forces Locations: Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Darfur, Black, Chad and Niger, Nile Rivers, Khartoum —, Khartoum, Republic of South Sudan, Chad

The New York Times Audio app includes podcasts, narrated articles from the newsroom and other publishers, as well as exclusive new shows — including this one — which we’re making available to readers for a limited time. Download the New York Times Audio app here. As authoritarian nations like China and Russia try to assert their power, President Biden has said the United States is fighting a global battle to save democracy. So why is America building relationships with countries that are far from democratic utopias? On this episode of “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts talk about global realignment with sometimes imperfect allies and how risky this moment could be.

Persons: Biden Organizations: New York Times Locations: China, Russia, United States, America

☆ The Politics of Class
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The class inversion in American politics — Republicans’ struggles with college graduates and Democrats’ struggles with the working class — is a running theme of this newsletter. To help make sense of it, I asked four Times Opinion writers to join me in an exchange this morning. And in the past five years, the party has lost ground with working-class voters of color. Dems need to relearn how to talk to working-class voters — to sound less condescending and scoldy. Too many Democrats radiate an aura of, If only voters understood what was good for them, they would back us.

Persons: Republicans ’, ’, Michelle Cottle, Carlos Lozada, Lydia Polgreen, Ross Douthat, they’re, ” David, Don’t Organizations: Republicans

☆ Lydia Polgreen on ‘Survivor’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Lydia Polgreen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

America Is ... We asked 17 columnists topick the one piece of culture thatbest captures the country. The show had grand ambitions: Jeff Probst, the host, repeatedly referred to “Survivor” as “the greatest social experiment.”Scroll to watch and read moreIt’s also a uniquely American experiment. Most strikingly, the show takes on — admittedly, in a ham-fisted way — the biggest divides in American society: gender, sexuality, race, age, class. One of the most admired and rewarded feats on “Survivor” is the blindside: voting off someone who thinks you are an ally. “Survivor” reminds us that living in our panopticon, with cameras in every pocket, we are content creators all, delivering a performance of ourselves.

Persons: topick, ”, Jeff Probst, MeToo, Probst, can’t, Erving Goffman Organizations: Survivor Locations: America

☆ Whatever Happened to ‘Free’ News? - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Lydia Polgreen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Then Donald Trump won the presidential election, and I felt that maybe in that moment there was work to do elsewhere. With its clever, large-format headlines and populist sensibility, HuffPost had the feel of a left-of-center tabloid, like The New York Daily News in its heyday. In a way, this plan represented a very old model of paying for quality journalism, one that began in 1833, when a young businessman named Benjamin Day had an idea. The handsome profits they reaped enabled investments in high-quality journalism, including high-risk and expensive endeavors such as investigative reporting and international coverage. Local news cratered, and even titans like The New York Times faced existential threats.

Persons: Donald Trump, HuffPost, Benjamin Day, Tim Wu Organizations: The New York Daily News, Corporate America, The New York Sun, The New York Times Locations: New York, United States

The New York Times Audio app includes podcasts, narrated articles from the newsroom and other publishers, as well as exclusive new shows — including this one — which we’re making available to readers for a limited time. Download the audio app here. The median age of senators is 65. We’re heading into a presidential contest that might find candidates who are 78 and 82 facing off on Election Day. Background reading(A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Organizations: New York Times, Times

The New York Times Audio app includes podcasts, narrated articles from the newsroom and other publishers, as well as exclusive new shows — including this one — which we’re making available to readers for a limited time. Download the audio app here. Time is running out for Congress to pass legislation lifting the debt ceiling. The United States is just days away from defaulting on its obligations, which would cause global economic chaos. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Organizations: New York Times, Times Locations: United States

The New York Times Audio app includes podcasts, narrated articles from the newsroom and other publishers and exclusive new shows — including this one — which we’re making available to readers for a limited time. Download the audio app here. On this special episode of “Matter of Opinion,” Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat, Carlos Lozada and Lydia Polgreen send off HBO’s “Succession” and its cast of back-stabbing ultrawealthy characters. The hosts break down key moments of the finale (turns out it pays to be a pain sponge) and discuss the real story “Succession” told about America today. (A full transcript of the episode will be available shortly on the Times website.)

☆ Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Are About Humiliation - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Lydia Polgreen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Anyone who fails to comply could face misdemeanor trespassing charges that could result in jail time. Now, bathroom bills are back, part of a pitiless onslaught against trans bodies that gathers speed with each passing day. Around 10 states have passed laws barring transgender children from using their chosen bathroom. So far this year there are more than 30 bills aimed at restricting bathroom use by trans people, according to the Human Rights Campaign, more than any other year on record. But none have gone as far as Florida, which is now the only state to criminalize using a bathroom that doesn’t align with your sex at birth.

Email us at matterofopinion@nytimes.com or leave us a voice mail message at (212) 556-7440. Follow our hosts on Twitter: Michelle Cottle (@mcottle), Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT), Carlos Lozada (@CarlosNYT) and Lydia Polgreen (@lpolgreen). “Matter of Opinion” was produced this week by Phoebe Lett, Sophia Alvarez Boyd and Derek Arthur. Mixing by Pat McCusker. Original music by Pat McCusker, Sonia Herrero, Isaac Jones and Carole Sabouraud.

☆ Opinion | Introducing ‘Matter of Opinion’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Premiering May 11“Matter of Opinion” is a new weekly podcast from New York Times Opinion. Each week, four Opinion writers talk through an issue in the news, culture or in their own work, and try to make sense of what is a weird and fascinating time to be alive. The show features four of Opinion’s signature voices: Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat, Carlos Lozada and Lydia Polgreen. Meet the HostsMichelle Cottle is a member of the New York Times editorial board, focusing on U.S. politics. She joined the editorial board in 2018 after reporting on the nation’s capital as a contributing editor for The Atlantic.

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