The New York Times3 hours agoThe Culture War That More Christians Should Be Fightingverified_publisherThe New York Times - Tish Harrison WarrenLet’s talk about the culture war we should be fighting. When we think of what’s important to the “religious right” or to “white evangelicals,” the focus tends to be on social issues: abortion, the role of religion in public life, conflicts around sexual orientation and gender identity, and lately, …
The New York Times2 hours agoChristian Nationalists Are Excited About What Comes Nextverified_publisherThe New York TimesThe shape of the Christian nationalist movement in the post-Roe future is coming into view, and it should terrify anyone concerned for the future of constitutional democracy. The Supreme Court’s decision to rescind the reproductive rights that American women have enjoyed over the past half-century …
The New York Times1 day agoIn Wimbledon’s Queue, Waiting Is a Pleasure, and the Pointverified_publisherThe New York Times - Christopher Clarey and Adam StoltmanWIMBLEDON, England — It was nearing 10 p.m., and Richard Hess, an 81-year-old American, was sitting inside his small tent and merrily preparing for his latest sleep-deprived night in the Wimbledon queue. “You caught me blowing up my mattress,” he said, poking his gray-haired head out of the tent and …
The New York Times2 days agoOur Gun Myths Have Held America Hostage for Too Longverified_publisherThe New York Times - Francisco CantúLike so many Americans, I have been called into relationships with guns since I was a child and have been made to understand, even long before I could articulate it, that guns represented something essential about what it means to become a fully realized American man. My first guns were toys, …
The New York Times2 days agoAn Ode to the Queen City of the Hudsonverified_publisherThe New York Times - Caleb Stein with text by Amitava KumarPOUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — When I accepted a job to teach literature and writing at Vassar College in the summer of 2005, a colleague told me that Poughkeepsie — lesser known to some as the Queen City of the Hudson — was a city caught in postindustrial decline. I had a vague notion of what that looked …
The New York Times2 days agoNew Insights Into Trump’s State of Mind on Jan. 6 Chip Away at Doubtsverified_publisherThe New York Times - Peter BakerWASHINGTON — He was not speaking metaphorically. It was not an offhand comment. President Donald J. Trump had every intention of joining a mob of supporters he knew to be armed and dangerous as it marched to the Capitol. And there had even been talk of marching into the House chamber himself to …
The New York Times2 days agoNazi Tapes Provide a Chilling Sequel to the Eichmann Trialverified_publisherThe New York Times - Isabel KershnerTEL AVIV — Six decades after the historic trial in Jerusalem of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief engineers of the Holocaust, a new Israeli documentary series has delivered a dramatic coda: the boastful confessions of the Nazi war criminal, in his own voice. The hours of old tape recordings, which …
