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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.

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☆ 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

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 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. For the second time in recent months, Donald Trump has been indicted. This time, the charges were filed by the special counsel appointed to investigate accusations that the former president took classified documents from the White House and repeatedly resisted efforts to return them. On this episode of “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts discuss what the 49-page indictment reveals about Trump and his view of the law, and its impact on the Republican primary race.

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☆ Opinion | Ron DeSantis Thinks Power Corrupts … Everyone Else
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Ezra Klein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“For years, the default conservative position has been to limit government and then get out of the way,” DeSantis writes. And DeSantis is trying to show, in vignette after vignette, that he has both the will and the discipline to do what Trump did not. Trump often appears in DeSantis’s book as a faintly comic figure. As Lozada observes, this is DeSantis criticizing Trump by proxy — Dr. Fauci served under Trump, and DeSantis is making clear he would have never let that stand. And so DeSantis delights in describing the methodical, relentless effort he put in to bending the state of Florida to his will.

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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. 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.)

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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. 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

☆ Opinion | Men Have Lost Their Way. Josh Hawley Has Thoughts About How to Save Them.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Carlos Lozada | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

In Bly’s view, part of the answer was to recreate ancient rites of male initiation and restore mentoring between young men and their elders, a relationship that instructs boys to channel, but not suppress, their instincts. And he urges young men to assume greater responsibility for their own lives (“Ditching porn is a good place to start,” Hawley writes) as a step toward glimpsing that missing vision of manhood. To dismiss or mock such views merely because they come from Josh Hawley is to let partisan commitments overwhelm intellectual ones. “Much of today’s left seems to welcome men who are passive and tame, who will do as they are told and sit in their cubicles, eyes affixed to their screens,” Hawley writes. Hawley is not necessarily wrong when he complains about the mixed messages aimed at young men today — Your identity is yours to shape and claim, but why are you so toxic and oppressive?

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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.)

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.

It’s something related to insulting someone, basically, in a way that is apparently illegal in India. And he basically is gonna be thrown out of parliament for this and will be ineligible to run for prime minister, because of this. I mean, you know, there’s a very different thing happening in America, and we still, I think, do have an independent judiciary. Like, it’s not as if Trump was convicted of a misdemeanor and then he can’t run for president. But it is interesting to think about the way in which the world is watching us and what lessons will be taken from this episode.

☆ If Politics Is a ‘Joke,’ Voters Get It
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Holman W. Jenkins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

He picks up on a long-running theme of this column, Donald Trump’s bottomless cynicism about the game of politics and the people who play it. Mr. Trump’s big election lie, Mr. Lozada writes, “is yoked to an older deception, without which it could not survive: the idea that American politics is, in essence, a joke. . . . When politicians publicly defend positions they privately reject, they are telling the joke. When they give up on the challenge of governing the country for the rush of triggering the enemy, they are telling the joke. When they intone that they must address the very fears they have encouraged or manufactured among their constituents, they are telling the joke.”

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