The New York Times2 hours agoOpinion | How to Kill a Palestinian Stateverified_publisherThe New York Times - Bret StephensDo the people chanting “Free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” have any idea of the irreparable harm they’re doing to any hope of Palestinian sovereignty? For decades, the question of a Palestinian state has come down to two dates: 1948 and 1967. Most Western …
The New York Times2 hours agoOpinion | Knowing When ‘They’ Means Oneverified_publisherThe New York Times - John McWhorterI have a proposal about our new usage of “they” to refer to individual people, as in, “Irene? Oh, they left an hour ago” or “Bernard cut themselves by accident.” Because it is so hard to change language by fiat, I know that my proposal here must qualify as modest. But propose it I must: Might it …
The New York Times2 hours agoOpinion | Bidenomics and the Guys in the Barverified_publisherThe New York Times - Paul KrugmanTen finance guys are drinking in a bar. Nine of them are Masters of the Universe — wheeler-dealers who make many millions of dollars every year. The tenth is what Gordon Gekko, in the movie “Wall Street,” called a “$400,000-a-year working Wall Street stiff.” Then the stiff leaves for a while, maybe …
The New York Times23 hours agoOpinion | Nikki Haley Is Coming for Your Retirementverified_publisherThe New York Times - Paul KrugmanIt feels like years ago, but actually only a few months have passed since many big Republican donors seemed to believe that Ron DeSantis could effectively challenge Donald Trump for the Republican nomination. It has been an edifying spectacle — an object lesson in the reality that great wealth need …
The New York Times17 hours agoOpinion | How Geert Wilders Wonverified_publisherThe New York Times - Paul TullisA country where depopulating rural areas are losing physicians, bus stops and elementary schools while urban areas thrive is fertile ground for a demagogue — say, a politician who crusades against Islam, immigrants and the forces of globalization. It’s a familiar script and one that has just put …
The New York Times4 days agoOpinion | The Very Good Reason People Like George Santos Lie About Nonsenseverified_publisherThe New York Times - Elizabeth SpiersAll politicians lie. So many people consider that idea self-evident that I’ve heard it deployed as both a defense of lying and a reason to disengage from our democratic system entirely. There’s a class of lying so extreme, however, that it exceeds either analytical framework. These aren’t lies about …
