Opinion

In bygone days, Democrats in New York’s suburbs could happily vote for Republicans they deemed good guys. Moderate Republicans didn’t seem all that different from moderate Democrats, and the two parties worked together in Washington.

Donald Trump is already beating Joe Biden; polls last weekend from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CBS News and Fox News all agree. But the race is close: Trump’s lead is only 2-5 points, and there’s plenty of time for new events to tip the outcome in the eight months between now and Election Day.

Dear Annie: My daughter has a 13-year-old son by her first husband and a 14-monthold by her new husband. She and the new husband have been living together for over seven years.

I have spent several days reading coverage of the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that recognized extrauterine embyros as children. Then I read the court’s actual decision and found that the two — the coverage and the ruling — have almost nothing in common.

Put up or shut up. That’s the message that Oklahomans ought to be sending to their Republican senators, who purport to be horrified and appalled by the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric spewed by one of their own.

Herewith some idiosyncratic, perhaps eccentric, observations on the electoral contests so far in this presidential cycle. 1.

Dear Annie: This is a tough situation and I’m at a loss for what to do next. First, I’ve been battling a worsening depression for a few years now. I was 34 when I lost my mom on Memorial Day of 2022 and then my dad to a broken heart the next year. After many trials and tribulations through life, I brought myself slightly out of my depression to start working at Walmart, where I met who I thought was the man of my dreams.

Supreme Court Arguments About Two Social Media Laws Highlight a Dangerous Conflation of State and Private Action A social media platform is like a telegraph, Texas Solicitor General Aaron Nielson told the Supreme Court on Monday, defending his state’s restrictions on content moderation by Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and YouTube. Paul Clement, speaking on behalf of the tech trade group NetChoice, rejected that comparison, saying a social media platform is more like a newspaper.

Dear Annie: I need advice on how to approach my son about the disorder in his house. He was raised in a very neat home. When he lived alone for several years, his house was immaculate. He’s now been married for four years. They have a 2-year-old and one on the way.

In case you just can’t get enough of Joy Reid for an hour each weeknight on MSNBC, you can catch her sharing her wild and loose opinions on TikTok. Recently, she pounced on remarks by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) supporting the Alabama court decision that frozen embryos are children, because “we need more kids.”