The New York Times Opinion section regularly publishes essays and editorials that are many hundreds and even thousands of words long. Sometimes, reading them can be a commitment. Over the last few days, we've also started publishing opinions in a very different format: just a handful of paragraphs. They take only about a minute to read, but are still brimming with insight. On Monday, The Point, our new opinion blog, made its debut on The Times's homepage. It was instantly full of immediate and concise commentary from our columnists, editorial board members and other opinion writers on a multiplicity of topics: the Iowa caucuses, the Emmys, immigration, the election in Taiwan and many more. The word "blog" may seem a little 2002 (the year blogs exploded all over the internet), but the basic concept has never gone out of style. It's still one of the best ways to gather significant ideas in succession, to react swiftly to new developments, to present a variety of voices and tones, backgrounds and sensibilities, and still have them cohere into an engaging whole. Just to scratch the surface of what we've published so far, there's been:
The Point isn't the first Opinion section blog — we used to have many — but it is the first time we've opened such a forum to all the writers in our section and given them free rein to choose their topics. You can expect a lot of politics this year, but also look for posts on culture, the economy, the law, parenting and relationships. New posts in The Point will appear each weekday, and we promise to fill it with some of the best thinking and writing you can find. We hope it engages you and you read it regularly. Read The Point here. Here's what we're focusing on today:
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Opinion Today: Blogging is back, baby
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