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I'm delighted to announce that Jack McCordick is joining Times Opinion as an assistant to the columnists Ezra Klein and Tressie McMillan Cottom. Before coming to The Times, Jack was a...
For several months beginning late last year, Senate Democrats and Republicans came together to negotiate a bipartisan border bill that, if passed, would have represented an unprecedented crackdown on undocumented immigration. President Joe Biden championed the bill, vowing to wield the new authority it would give him to “shut down the border.” What happened next? Donald Trump, sensing a potential loss of political capital heading into the 2024 election, began campaigning vociferously against the
John Washington has spent years reporting on the U.S.-Mexico border. In a new book, he makes the case for its abolition.
So it was last Saturday when I first read accounts of Donald Trump’s speech at UNH, where he repeated his racist rhetoric about immigrants “poisoning the blood of America.”
In early December 1938, the critic and editor Malcolm Cowley set out to compile a form of end-of-year list for The New Republic. He and the other editors wrote to their friends seeking to compile a list of recent “Books That Changed Our Minds.” They didn’t debate what it would mean to call their choices the best. The books simply needed to have made them think in a new way. Eighty-five years later, we’re attempting something similar with our list of books of the year. We drew this list from the