Opinion Video

On my journey from foster care to Yale, I developed a concept I call luxury beliefs.

By Rob Henderson, Lindsay Crouse and Kevin Oliver

Britons are celebrating the end of 14 bleak years of Conservative rule. But the new government must turn things around, and fast, or the populists will be back.

By Jonathan Pie and Adam Westbrook

The stakes in Thursday’s debate are high, and so is the risk of failure.

By Adam Westbrook and Emily Holzknecht

From love and pride to discomfort and hate, 10 people describe their feelings about their own periods.

By Lina Lyte Plioplyte

Dr. Samer Attar, an American surgeon, shows the unfathomable brutality of the war in Gaza.

By Samer Attar, Alexander Stockton and Amanda Su

We need to be smarter about how we talk about mental illness.

By Lucy Foulkes, Amanda Su and Adam Westbrook

These are their exit interviews.

By Amanda Su and Alexander Stockton

Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless. This filmmaker wants you to see them.

By Mark Horvath, Adam Westbrook and Lindsay Crouse

Meet the unsung heroes making our country great.

By Adam Westbrook and Lindsay Crouse

Politicians from both sides used to agree on immigration policy. What happened?

By Kirk Semple and Jonah M. Kessel

There’s more than one way for workers to organize.

By Jeff Seal, Nick Libbey and Chris Libbey

The 10 videos that will stick with us far past 2023.

The N.H.S. is one of Britain’s proudest achievements, and it’s unraveling.

By Adam Westbrook

Once a hope for the future of Israel and the Palestinians, “the two-state solution” can now feel like a hollow phrase.

By Amanda Su and Adam Westbrook

Presidential candidates’s meetings weren’t always so hostile.

By Amanda Su

Two years ago, filmmakers asked children in Gaza about their dreams for the future. These were their responses.

By Mohannad Abu Rizk and Amanda Su

Survivors of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks grapple with what can be recovered and what is lost forever.

By Iris Zaki, Tamir Elterman and Jonah M. Kessel

Social media demands that you’re with us or against us.

By Zach Goldbaum, Alex Kingsbury and Alexander Stockton

Emergency rooms are among the most dangerous workplaces in the United States.

By Roland Kielman, Ryan Mercer and Helen Ouyang

When it comes to my pregnancy, the only opinion I’m interested in is my doctor’s.

By Lindsay Crouse, Adam Westbrook and Amanda Su

The Supreme Court of Brazil is deciding a case that could make history by decriminalizing abortion.

By Eliza Capai and Joanna Erdman

Two siblings learn to balance love and self-preservation.

By Kaitlin Prest, Natalie Prest and Tala Schlossberg

They benefited from legacy admissions, and they want it to end.

By Amanda Su and Alexander Stockton

Pain patients have become the unintended victims of a national crackdown on opioid prescribing.

By Vishakha Darbha, Lucy King and Adam Westbrook

These men have spent their entire adult lives in prison. How much punishment is enough?

By Marcus Kondkar, Calvin Duncan, Alexander Stockton and Jesse Wegman

Every day, Ukrainian children lose fathers in Russia’s assault on their country. A grief camp is fighting to protect their youth.

By Mona El-Naggar, Jonah M. Kessel and Alexander Stockton

Ukrainian citizen-soldiers are in a fight for survival — and they don’t have time to travel for training.

By Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein

Now that Yevgeny Prigozhin has left the battlefield, who will tell Russians the truth?

By Kirk Semple and Jonah M. Kessel

We’re told education can end poverty. The truth is more complicated.

By Nicholas Kristof, Lucy King and Jonah M. Kessel

Seeking help, L.G.B.T.Q. members of religious communities may end up in conversion therapy without even realizing it.

By Miki Katoni

They’re among the most effective ways to reduce destructive drinking. What are politicians so afraid of?

By Kirk Semple and Adam Westbrook

We made this video for the three people who can end an absurd workplace nightmare for millions of Americans.

By Adam Westbrook and Emily Holzknecht

It’s time to completely rethink how we measure economic success.

By Nathan Grossman, Tom Mustill and Cecilia Nessen

Twenty years ago, Bush did something amazing. Hint: It wasn’t the Iraq war.

By Adam B. Ellick, Jonah M. Kessel and Nicholas Kristof

In Lebanon the economic collapse is forcing citizens to take extreme measures to get their savings.

By Zach Goldbaum and Todd Bieber

“It’s really, really hard to live when you’re constantly focused on how you look.”

By Shaina Feinberg

For Jerod Draper, horrifying video footage wasn’t enough to force police accountability.

By Sam Mirpoorian

For hospitals, pediatrics isn’t as lucrative as adult health care — and we’ve been underinvesting in kids for decades.

By Alexander Stockton and Lucy King

In wartime Russia, following your conscience can come at a heavy cost.

By Kirk Semple, Alexander Stockton and Jonah M. Kessel

More than a year after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a network of volunteers is still trying to evacuate Afghan allies. But this commitment has come at a great cost.

By Kirk Semple and Alexander Stockton

It’s never been harder to oversee America’s classrooms, and it’s driving educators out en masse.

By Agnes Walton and Nic Pollock

Millions suffered, hundreds died, and Greg Abbott is likely to get a third term. 

By Adam Westbrook

And your chances of surviving on it, too.

By Agnes Walton and Alessandra Orofino

A pastor in St. Louis explains in a sermon what’s at stake for the Black population in the abortion debate.

By Clinton L. Stancil, Kirk Semple and Kristopher Knight

Innovation is important, but Elon Musk’s impractical transit inventions do nothing to help solve today’s problems.

By Adam Kovacs and Adam Westbrook

The residential programs that families and kids turn to for help are in desperate need of reform.

By Alexander Stockton

Imagine a legal January 6. It’s bureaucratic, boring, invisible, and it might actually succeed.

By Johnny Harris and Michelle Cottle

With Liz Truss as its next prime minister, Britain is about to get a second helping of the policies that created its current crisis.

By Jonathan Pie and Adam Westbrook

When you can’t rely on facial recognition, you look beyond the obvious.

By James Robinson

Stuttering is considered an issue with speech. What about the listener?

By James Robinson

It’s time to expand our definition of blindness.

By James Robinson

Lawns are bad for you, your pets and the planet. It’s time to move on to greener pastures.

By Agnes Walton and Kirby Ferguson

Across the country, thousands of hospitals have largely ignored price transparency laws.

By Martin Schoeller

“Net-zero emissions” sounds like an ambitious goal, but for most corporations, it’s just kicking the can down the road.

By Agnes Walton and Kristopher Knight

How the United States treats refugees is one of the greatest tests of the American experiment.

By Ken Burns

Self-managed abortion is not a substitute for having full reproductive rights. But it’s one of the best tools we have right now.

By Ora DeKornfeld, Emily Holzknecht and Jonah M. Kessel

While befriending a former rival, Jay Dickey became one of the rare politicians to change his stance on gun control.

By Brian Dawson

Some Russians who oppose the war in Ukraine are experiencing an existential crisis marked by sorrow and regret.

By Adam Westbrook and Kirk Semple

And heartbreak and lions and infinite hallways.

By Tala Schlossberg

It was a naïve gamble: If we were nice to Putin, maybe he would be nice to us.

By Adam Westbrook

In some regions of Ukraine, there are virtually no hospitals left. 

By Lucy King and Jonah M. Kessel

An Opinion Video investigation reveals the Taliban have been on a crusade of revenge killings against former U.S. allies.

By Barbara Marcolini, Sanjar Sohail and Alexander Stockton

Britain is having a hard time quitting its addiction to Russian money.

By Jonathan Pie and Adam Westbrook

Not every killing connects with the culture and activates a mass movement. This one did.

By Charles M. Blow

Climate-conscious cooking means getting creative.

By Tala Schlossberg, Kirk Semple and Jonah M. Kessel

Modern poultry farming keeps chicken cheap but steals the dignity of both animal and farmer.

By Lucy King, Adam Westbrook and Jonah M. Kessel

To help make sense of the scandal surrounding Britain’s prime minister, we enlisted the help of satirical newscaster, Jonathan Pie.

By Jonathan Pie and Adam Westbrook

American agriculture is ravaging the air, soil and water. But a powerful lobby has cleverly concealed its damage.

By Kirk Semple, Adam Westbrook and Jonah M. Kessel

Nurses would like to set the record straight on the hospital staffing crisis.

By Lucy King and Jonah M. Kessel

The comedian and journalist Jeff Seal takes to the streets to rally support for a little-known bill that would protect millions of New Yorkers from unjust evictions. But a powerful lobby stands in its way.

By Jeff Seal, Chris Libbey and Nick Libbey

How do we mourn everything we’ve lost to Covid?

By Lindsay Crouse, Kirby Ferguson and Emily Holzknecht

Our kids are at the mercy of tech companies, with only an outdated law to protect them.

By Adam Westbrook, Lucy King and Jonah M. Kessel

Why do states with Democratic majorities fail to live up to their values?

By Johnny Harris and Binyamin Appelbaum

Time to stop being a martyr to grit.

By Lindsay Crouse and Kirby Ferguson

Abandoned by the U.S., an Afghan woman secretly records video diaries while on the run from the Taliban.

By Alexander Stockton, Kirk Semple and Zach Goldbaum

In Arkansas, many are choosing personal liberty over vaccination — at a heavy cost.

By Alexander Stockton and Lucy King

Trans athletes are trapped in a culture war. I’m not a cheater, but I may have an unfair advantage.

By Andie Taylor

A filmmaker devises a few experiments to help his family experience his disability — and show how a little imagination can make us all more empathetic.

By James Robinson

“I don’t want to see us return to normal. I want to see us return to better.”

By Kirk Semple and Adam Westbrook

Quin Jones, a death row inmate with nine days to live has a message for Governor Abbott of Texas: Please stop my execution.

By Jonah M. Kessel, Suleika Jaouad and Lindsay Crouse

A short film offering a firsthand perspective of the brutality of the pandemic inside a Covid-19 I.C.U.

By Alexander Stockton and Lucy King

Biden’s campaign strategy put Democrats in agony. Here’s why it worked.

By Michelle Cottle

Electoral violence is in our DNA.

It’s hard to concede. But voters have spoken.

By Chai Dingari

From gerrymandering to voter roll purges, we showed people around the world how the American system works. It didn’t go well.

*Just not in the United States.

By Sanya Dosani, Alexander Stockton and Adam Westbrook

The problems that brought us a terrible year have been incubating for a long time.

By Tala Schlossberg and Andrew Blackwell

I’m not afraid of criticism, and “Protect Black women” should not be controversial.

By Megan Thee Stallion

Two words: Electoral College.

By Jesse Wegman

Weird Al Yankovic’s take on the weird debate.

By the Gregory Brothers and Weird Al Yankovic

The U.S. spent 15 years preparing for the coronavirus. Why did we handle it so badly?

By Johnny Harris, Nicholas Kristof and Adam B. Ellick

My husband was jailed for daring to run against our president. So I ran in his place.

By Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Alexander Stockton and Adam B. Ellick

While the United States was creating confusion with its virus messaging, the rest of the world got creative.

These front-line medical workers are struggling with what comes next.

By Sahan Hapangama, Louis Gelabert and Sarah Norris

Most historians just study the past. But Allan Lichtman has successfully predicted the future.

By Allan Lichtman

From lockdowns to testing, we showed people around the world the facts and figures on how the U.S. has handled the pandemic.

Just ask Brazilians.

By Felipe Neto

While nobody was looking, the N.B.A. figured out how to fight inequality.

By Binyamin Appelbaum

Georgia is one of only four states without a bias crime law. This must change.

By Wanda Cooper-Jones

A look at the style of Dr. Amy Acton, who has earned praise for her daily briefings on the pandemic.

By Sanya Dosani and Adam Westbrook