(And what they really want to know.)
 | By Kathleen Kingsbury Acting Editorial Page Editor |
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Since I stepped into my job as acting head of the editorial page in June, I’ve received a version of this question several times: Does The New York Times actually believe in publishing a range of opinions? |
When I’m asked this, I often think the real question is: Will you publish conservative or center-right thinkers and writers? |
The short answer: of course. Our compact with our readers is to offer them thoughtful, independent journalism. |
We couldn’t honor that commitment if we didn’t challenge readers’ views, help them think through news and current debates and, ultimately, develop their own opinions about how the world should be. |
In fact, the cover story in this weekend’s Sunday Review is a piece exploring the future of the Republican Party by David Brooks. David argues that even if Trump loses in November, his views on immigration, trade, foreign policy and more will live on for decades, shaping the G.O.P. just as Ronald Reagan’s worldview has. |
And yesterday we published an episode of “The Argument” where the pro-Trump conservatives Helen Andrews and Dan McCarthy joined Ross Douthat to debate the president’s handling of the coronavirus and whether conservatives should hope for a Trump loss in November. |
Last week we published essays by Stuart Stevens, a longtime Republican political consultant; Steven Calabresi, a co-founder of the Federalist Society; and Jeffrey A. Rosen, the deputy attorney general, who defended the federal death penalty. |
Times Opinion has worked hard over the past several years to diversify in all sorts of ways — in the range of voices we have, the kinds of reporting we do and the different mediums we use, like podcasts, graphics and video. |
Our report is at its best when we don’t just publish opposing views — even though it sometimes seems this way, the world isn’t binary, eternally cleaved between Democrat and Republican. Instead, we aim to bring many different voices and viewpoints to a topic, enriching the debate with expertise and people’s lived experiences, especially of those who are not always heard. That can mean looking at issues through the lens of race, economics, culture or science. |
Politics is important, but it’s only part of the discussion. |
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