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Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicThis week on “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts take apart why Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis can’t seem to form competitive coalitions against Donald Trump, and whether Haley, DeSantis, the Supreme Court “or God himself” can keep the former president from becoming the Republican nominee. Plus, Michelle Cottle reveals her Plan B if her political reporting career doesn’t work out. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Persons: Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis can’t, Donald Trump, Haley, DeSantis, ”, Michelle Cottle Organizations: Spotify, Republican, Times

I don’t know. ross douthatIt’s true that he didn’t want the vice president to have a sort of separate political agenda. I don’t think that it was a fait accompli —ross douthatThat’s true. He would legitimately sabotage, kneecap his own vice president, just to prove no one else could do it. carlos lozadaLet’s just say, I will be your vice president, Michelle, anytime.

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Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicStrongmen are making a comeback. The hyperlibertarian Javier Milei in Argentina and the anti-immigration Geert Wilders in the Netherlands are among a growing group of recently elected leaders who promise to break a few rules, shake up democratic institutions and spread a populist message. Or is there something else behind the appeal of these misbehaving men with wild hair? This week on “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts debate where the urge to turn to strongmen is coming from and whether it’s such a bad thing after all. Plus, young listeners share their formative political moments, even in the middle of class.

Persons: Javier Milei, Geert Wilders Organizations: Spotify Locations: Argentina, Netherlands

☆ Opinion | Is Biden vs. Trump the ‘Election We Need’?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

We need this election to once and for all defeat MAGA and Trumpism, and send Donald Trump packing, if he is not in prison. Nicholas BuxtonNew YorkTo the Editor:Carlos Lozada writes: “Joe Biden versus Donald Trump is not the choice America wants. I would rather risk losing to a Nikki Haley than take the chance on beating Mr. Trump. Millions of people are yearning for an alternative to an octogenarian Joe Biden and to an existentially dangerous to our democracy Donald Trump. In a recent poll, a “generic” Democrat matched against Mr. Trump outperformed Joe Biden by more than 10 points.

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Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicWhat’s your earliest political memory? That’s the question Professor Carlos Lozada puts to his co-hosts this week on “Matter of Opinion.” The hosts discuss the coups and presidential pinings of their youths before debating what political events may be shaping the attitudes of younger voters today. Plus, the documentary Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce need to see. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Persons: Carlos Lozada, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce Organizations: Spotify, Times

☆ Opinion | A Trump-Biden Rematch Is the Election We Need
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Carlos Lozada | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Joe Biden versus Donald Trump is not the choice America wants. And while 60 percent of voters don’t want to put Trump back in the White House, 65 percent don’t want to hand Biden a second term, either. The one thing on which Americans seem to agree is that we find a Biden-Trump 2024 rematch entirely disagreeable. A contest between Biden and Trump would compel Americans to either reaffirm or discard basic democratic and governing principles. More so than any other pairing, Biden versus Trump forces us to decide, or at least to clarify, who we think we are and what we strive to be.

Persons: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Biden, Trump Organizations: Democratic, Republican, House, Biden, Trump, The Washington Post, Justice Department Locations: Trump

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicThe election results on Tuesday made it clear that voters support Democratic policies and state politicians — but new polling shows they don’t love the president. On this week’s episode of “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts share their takeaways from the voting, and what it all means for 2024. Also, your calls about your presidential fantasy matchups. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Organizations: Spotify, Democratic, Times

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicThe polls are clear: Neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump has the full confidence of American voters. But is Biden’s latest competition, Democratic Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota, the answer to voters’ malaise? Or perhaps an independent candidate like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? On this week’s episode of “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts imagine their own alternative candidates for 2024 and debate what good — if any — could come from long-shot contenders. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Persons: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Dean Phillips, Robert F, Kennedy Jr Organizations: Spotify, Democratic, Dean Phillips of, Times Locations: Dean Phillips of Minnesota

☆ Opinion | It Isn’t Easy to Be Mitt Romney
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Carlos Lozada | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Coppins depicts Ann Romney as the pivotal influence in her husband’s life; he is always trying to win and preserve her approval. A close second is his father, George Romney, the governor of Michigan, Republican presidential candidate and Housing and Urban Development secretary in the Nixon administration. The controversy surrounding his use of that term finally derailed George Romney’s presidential aspirations. “The one question Romney would struggle to answer — even a decade later — was whether he had been true to himself in his pursuit of the presidency,” Coppins writes. Did it allow Romney to make a statement rather than a difference, in that his isolated vote could not produce Trump’s conviction?

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Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicWill technology — and the people who make it — lead us into a better future? Or a worse one? This week on “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts discuss Elon Musk, techno-optimism and the manifesto taking Silicon Valley by storm. Plus, we learn that Ross wears dad drag. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Persons: —, Ross Organizations: Spotify, Elon, Times

☆ Opinion | The Conflicted Legacy of Mitt Romney
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After factional infighting dominated the G.O.P.’s struggle to elect a House speaker, it feels weirdly quaint to revisit Mitt Romney’s career. He’s served as governor, U.S. senator and presidential nominee for a Republican Party now nearly unrecognizable from what it was when he started out. At the end of his time in public office, Romney has found a new clarity in his identity as the consummate institutionalist in an increasingly anti-constitutionalist party. In this resulting biography “Romney: A Reckoning,” Coppins pushes Romney to wrestle with his own role — even complicity — in what his party has become. In this conversation, guest host Carlos Lozada and Coppins examine Romney’s legacy at a time when it may seem increasingly out of place with the mainstream G.O.P.

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☆ Opinion | Vivek Ramaswamy Is Confused
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Carlos Lozada | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The theatrically combative presidential candidacy of Vivek Ramaswamy seems to be premised on two messages. The other is his devotion to Donald Trump, whom Ramaswamy relentlessly defended in the debate, promising to support the former president, if Trump wins the Republican nomination, or to pardon him, if Ramaswamy wins the White House. In these works, Ramaswamy is more thoughtful, but also more confused, than his smiling, trolly, rapid-fire campaign persona. He can’t seem to decide if woke capitalism is a public-relations ploy or a mortal threat to the republic. Stakeholder capitalism is a “farce,” he writes, an example of “corporate opportunism” and “self-interest masquerading as morality,” a “do-good smoke screen” through which businesses distract the public from their perfidy.

Persons: Vivek Ramaswamy, Donald Trump, Ramaswamy, “, ”, lionizes Trump, Joe Biden’s, ” Ramaswamy Organizations: Republican, Trump, Inc, Republican Party Locations: “

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicAmericans are sick of business as usual. So what’s going on with work in America? This week on “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts break down how a changing economy and technological innovations are complicating the worker-employer relationship. Ross asks how little work The Times should pay him to do. And ultimately, the hosts debate the question: In today’s world, what role should work play in our lives?

Persons: Lydia, Ross Organizations: Spotify, Amazon Music, United Auto Workers Locations: America

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 | Four Indictments and Two Impeachments Tell One Story
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Carlos Lozada | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

There are two ways to read the stack of indictments and impeachments the 45th president of the United States has amassed so far. They can be regarded, accurately, as America’s case against Donald Trump. Indictment is a legal action whereas impeachment is a political act, but when taken together the texts provide a singular and consistent case. They capture the progression of transgression evident in Trump’s political campaigns, his presidency and its aftermath, with each escape from accountability yielding a bolder and more reckless iteration of Trump. Trump’s first indictment, for allegedly falsifying business records to conceal payments to women with whom he had extramarital affairs, offers an early and straightforward example of his deception.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump’s, Hillary Clinton, Melania, “, Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky, —, Joe Biden, ” Organizations: United States, United, America Locations: United, New York County, Ukraine, Russia

Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicDonald Trump was impeached twice. He has been indicted three times. And yet he’s the clear Republican front-runner for 2024. Today on “Matter of Opinion,” Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat and Carlos Lozada explore how Trump has created a winning political strategy and what his potential nomination could mean for Joe Biden, the Republican Party and the future of the country. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Persons: Amazon Music Donald Trump, ” Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat, Carlos Lozada, Trump, Joe Biden Organizations: Spotify, Amazon Music, Republican Party, Times

☆ Opinion | The Two Adverbs That Define Biden and Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Carlos Lozada | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

To say that America is a democracy is to issue a statement of belief. The contrast between Biden saying America is still a democracy and Trump vowing to make it great again is more than a quirk of speechwriting. Both candidates, now in a dead heat in the 2024 presidential race, look to the nation’s past but through divergent lenses. It’s the difference between America as an ideal worth preserving and an illusion worth summoning. The message of “still” is that we remain who we are, but that this condition is not immutable, that America as Biden envisions it exists somewhere between reality and possibility.

Persons: ”, MAGA, Biden’s “, Biden, Trump, “, Trump’s “, ” Biden Organizations: Independence Hall Locations: America, Philadelphia

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.)

Organizations: Spotify, Music Elite, Harvard, Times

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

☆ Opinion | A Look Back at Our Coming War With China
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Carlos Lozada | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

For instance, what if China seeks to take the island by force and Washington opts to not respond? Published in 2021, “2034,” is basically a beach read about how we get to nuclear war. In “The Avoidable War,” Rudd cautions that the incentives for Beijing and Washington to escalate hostilities, whether to save lives or save face, “could prove irresistible.” Ackerman and Stavridis follow that script. Both the United States and China view themselves in exceptional terms, Allison explains, as nations of destiny. “China will be a falling power far sooner than most people think,” Brands and Beckley declare.

Persons: ” Kevin Rudd, ” Rudd, Rudd, ”, Elliot Ackerman, James Stavridis, “, Allison, Thucydides, ” Ackerman, —, Xi Jinping, China’s Organizations: Marine, NATO, Harvard, U.S, . Security, Brands, Beckley, ” Brands Locations: Xi, China, Australia, Taiwan, Washington, Munich, United States, Iraq, Afghanistan, South China, U.S, Beijing, San Diego, Shanghai, India, New York, New Delhi, America, China’s, Beckley

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.)

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