Pamela Paul

Conversations and insights about the moment.

There are lists of Donald Trump's lies and lists of his alleged crimes. But the catalog of all the good things that have happened to the former president is equally unnerving. Every dog has its day, but Trump -- no fan of dogs, BTW -- has had far more good luck than the average mutt.

Pamela Paul and Carlos Lozada dig into the former first lady’s “book-adjacent object.”

Watching “Conclave” and “Rumours,” I realized I couldn’t escape the real world after all.

Faced with the chaotic unknown or the abjectly terrifying, some turn to wine and others to snack food. There are even people who channel their stress in healthy, productive ways, speed walking or enjoying sound bath meditation. But I go to the movies.

“Conclave,” an Oscar-bound movie set in the Vatican, promised to whisk me off far and away. Not exactly.

If early exit polls hold, Harris' advantage with women may have been narrower than Joe Biden's in 2020

Perhaps as a threat of what's to come, on Friday, supporters of President-elect Donald Trump recirculated a video statement on the social platform X that he made last year on transgender issues. In it, he pledges to stop federal backing for programs that support the concept of gender transition at any age and to ban gender-affirming care for minors. Any hospital that performs gender surgery on young people would be ejected from Medicare and Medicaid. He would cut federal funds to schools that tell children “they could be trapped in the wrong body,” and get a law that bars “men from participating in women's sports.”