Opinion Today

January 3, 2023

How 11 Cops See Crime, Guns, Race and America Right Now
Patrick Healy & Adrian J. Rivera, New York Times
Eleven law enforcement agents speak with Times Opinion about what policing is like in America today.

Why the right has already won the House speakership election
Ronald Brownstein, CNN
No matter how they resolve Tuesday’s vote choosing the next speaker of the House, Republicans appear poised to double down on the hard-edged politics that most swing state voters rejected in last November’s midterm election.

Kevin McCarthy’s problem: historically unpopular with a historically small majority
Harry Enten, CNN
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy may have thought he’d have the speakership locked up by now, but, ahead of the new Congress that begins on Tuesday, he doesn’t. McCarthy’s problems in securing the top spot in the House are more easily understood when you realize the hand he’s been dealt. He has a historically small majority for a potential first-time speaker, and McCarthy, …