Politics | Opinion

Nobody got Covid totally right. But the contrarians got it mostly wrong.

By David Wallace-Wells

How the president-elect could change the Middle East — for the better.

By Thomas L. Friedman and Derek Arthur

If there’s a thread tying this coalition together, it’s suspicion of expertise and elitism.

By M. Anthony Mills

We’re in a national moment of great fear and suspicion. But the principles of psychoanalysis that can help feuding couples can also help us reconcile our differences.

By Orna Guralnik

There are the same dark subplots here that have made the position of other incumbent governments so precarious.

By Fintan O’Toole

Avian influenza might mutate to enable human-to-human transmission.

By David A. Kessler

Three giant, shifting tectonic plates will have profound implications for the new administration.

By Thomas L. Friedman

Trump’s 2016 presidential transition signaled how he would govern. What do his preparations for a second term tell us about America’s future?

By Jamelle Bouie, Ross Douthat, M. Gessen and Lydia Polgreen

The woman-president thing is more than just a check mark on the feminist to-do list.

By Gail Collins

Large negative movements in the finances of the young and the working class are going to make his second term much tougher sledding than his first.

By Steven Rattner