The Opinions
The New York Times Opinion
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Recent episodes
| Episode | Published | Length | Ad time | Breaks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Wild West of A.I. Needs to End. Here’s How. | 37:12 | 2:25 | 3 | |
| Trump’s Political Instincts ‘Are Clearly Fading’ | 37:53 | 1:50 | 2 | |
| Why We Can’t Stop Arguing About S.S.R.I.s | 43:42 | 1:13 | 2 | |
| His Act Is Getting Old | 35:29 | 1:32 | 2 | |
| How Roy Cohn Shaped Trump — and America | 37:22 | 1:44 | 2 | |
| Best Of: Our Health Care System Isn’t Built for You to Get Old | 23:30 | 0:16 | 1 | |
| Best Of: The Aesthetic That Explains American Identity Now | 33:19 | 0:31 | 1 | |
| The Right Is Rethinking MAGA. The Left Is Rethinking ‘Woke.’ | 43:26 | 0:49 | 2 | |
| How Are the Democrats’ Midterm Dreams Shaping Up? | 40:43 | 0:33 | 1 | |
| Why the U.S. Economy Needs A.I. — Bubble or Not | 42:16 | 0:45 | 2 | |
| Hello, Democrats? Are You Listening? | 37:25 | 0:49 | 2 | |
| Always Late? TikTok Thinks You Have A.D.H.D. | 38:41 | 0:27 | 1 | |
| What Happens to America’s Political Parties After Trump? | 34:52 | 0:27 | 1 | |
| Can Democrats Harness the Data Center Backlash? | 32:23 | 0:30 | 1 | |
| ‘Platner Is Vile.’ McConnell Is Missing. Welcome to American Politics. | 45:31 | 0:22 | 1 | |
| The American Economy Isn’t as Bad as You Might Think | 34:32 | 0:37 | 1 | |
| Best of: Jill Lepore: ‘Most Forms of Tyranny Do Come to an End’ | 29:31 | 0:33 | 1 | |
| Has the MAGA ‘Sugar Rush’ Finally Run Out? | 39:17 | 1:06 | 2 | |
| Thomas Friedman on the Clash at the Core of the Iran Deal | 29:33 | 1:05 | 2 | |
| Will the Real JD Vance Please Stand Up? | 40:26 | 0:46 | 2 | |
| The Spectacle of Trump at 80 | 32:55 | 0:33 | 1 | |
| Wall Street’s A.I. Bet Is About to Become Yours | 32:58 | 0:38 | 2 | |
| Graham Platner and the Rise of the ‘Dirtbag’ Democrat | 44:06 | 2:12 | 3 | |
| Feeling Nihilistic? You’re Not Alone. | 39:33 | 1:15 | 2 | |
| Sorry, Republicans, Trump Doesn’t Love You Back | 28:10 | 0:40 | 2 |
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Listening to The Opinions with YAPP
The Opinions typically runs 1.8 ad breaks per episode, usually a pre-roll and one or two mid-rolls. Across the episodes we have processed, that comes to about 0.8 minutes per episode, or 1.3 minutes for every hour of listening.
YAPP maps each episode before you play it, so you get the show and not the rest of it. Because the ads are stitched in per listener, YAPP matches what you are actually hearing rather than replaying a fixed set of timestamps.
How these numbers are measured
YAPP transcribes each episode, classifies advertising segments, and refines their boundaries using audio fingerprinting. Figures cover the 58 episodes of this show that YAPP has processed. Because most podcast ads are dynamically inserted and vary by listener, these figures reflect what our pipeline observed rather than what every listener hears. Full methodology
Boundaries for 32% of detected segments were refined by audio fingerprinting; the rest rest on transcript timing and are less precise.
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