The New York TimesClimate Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We ThinkThe New York Times - By NAOMI ORESKES and NICHOLAS STERNFor some time now it has been clear that the effects of climate change are appearing faster than scientists anticipated. Now it turns out that there is another form of underestimation as bad or worse the
The New York TimesOpinion Donald Trump’s Quid Pro Quo Is Now a Smoking GunThe New York Times - By JESSE WEGMANIf Tuesday’s congressional testimony by William Taylor, the acting United States envoy to Ukraine, is to be taken at face value — and no one in the Trump administration has yet denied a word of it — then
The New York Times Not Your Father’s MasculinityThe New York Times - By MATT LABASHJohn Wayne, that repository of testosterone — now considered an illicit substance in many states — once played a character who said, “You have to be a man first, before you’re a gentleman.” Who knows exactly,
The New York Times The Gaping, Recession-Sized Hole in 2020 College PlansThe New York Times - By JAMES KVAALIn a recent survey, three-quarters of economists polled by The Wall Street Journal predicted a recession would hit before the end of 2021. That’s scary news for college students. The last recession helped
The New York Times Trudeau Survived. Now Stop Pretending Canada Is a Diverse Paradise.The New York Times - By CHERYL THOMPSONThe prime minister of Canada, re-elected on Monday with a less powerful government, can’t ignore his country’s racism problem anymore. Not long after explosive old photos showing three instances of Mr.
The New York TimesPierre Trudeau Justin Trudeau’s Anemic VictoryThe New York TimesCALGARY, Alberta — This should not have been a competitive election. When Justin Trudeau won a healthy majority government in 2015, it seemed as if destiny itself had cleared the way for the scrappy scion
The New York TimesOpinion Is God Skipping the Democratic Primary?The New York Times - By FRANK BRUNIThe most recent Democratic debate lasted three hours and, according to one transcript I checked, exceeded 30,000 words. God came up only in throwaway phrases. “God bless Kamala,” said Cory Booker, praising
The New York TimesIraq War Trump’s Syria Trifecta: A Win for Putin, a Loss for the Kurds and Lots of Uncertainty for Our AlliesThe New York Times - By THOMAS L. FRIEDMANOn the eve of the Iraq war, in 2003, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain addressed a joint session of Congress about America’s foreign policy mission: “In some small corner of this vast country, out Nevada
The New York TimesJustin Trudeau Justin Trudeau, Humbled, Gets a Second ChanceThe New York TimesJustin Trudeau’s victory in Canada’s national elections on Monday followed what he called one of the “nastiest” campaigns in Canadian history. That may be true, to the degree that much of the campaign
The New York TimesOpinion Making Drug Companies Pay for the Opioid EpidemicThe New York TimesThis article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it Tuesdays and Thursdays. Emily Walden’s son T.J. was 11 when he was first prescribed painkillers after breaking his One
The New York TimesDonald Trump I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump AdministrationThe New York TimesThe Times is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and job
The New York TimesOpinion The Sex-Crazed Poet Strongman Who (Briefly) Built an EmpireThe New York TimesOne hundred years ago this fall, a celebrity showman became a strongman. The womanizing, profligate Italian poet Gabriele d’Annunzio, who had become a hero of World War I by airdropping his own propagandistic
The New York TimesRussia The America I Knew as Russia’s Foreign Minister Is GoneThe New York Times - By ANDREI V. KOZYREVThe United States has often played a pivotal role in my political life, beginning 50 years ago when I was a student of international relations at a Moscow university. At that time, Soviet propaganda was
The New York TimesLebanon ‘Baby Shark’ and the Sounds of Protest in LebanonThe New York TimesThis article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the time that elapsed between the end of Lebanon’s civil war and protests in 2005 over the
The New York TimesAbortion My Day as an Abortion Care ProviderThe New York Times - By LISA H. HARRISI became an obstetrician-gynecologist 20 years ago because I wanted to be a source of compassion and expertise for patients and their families as they navigate a wide range of reproductive experiences,
The New York Times Hillary Clinton’s Attack on Tulsi GabbardThe New York TimesRe “Tulsi Gabbard Lashes Back at Hillary Clinton After Claim of Russian Influence” (nytimes.com, Oct. 18): In this lead-up to the primaries, Democrats should be operating under their version of Ronald
The New York TimesOpinion To Treat Chronic Ailments, Fix Diet FirstThe New York Times - By LARRY BUHLOn the kitchen counter in her Leimert Park apartment in Los Angeles, Diane Henry lays out her meals for the week. They’re frozen, in equal-sized containers: Florentine tart, noodles with carrots, oven-fried
The New York Times Trump Is Tracking Your PhoneThe New York TimesThis article is part of a limited-run newsletter. You can sign up here. Privacy may not be a policy issue for most of the 2020 presidential candidates, but their campaigns will depend on intrusive tracking.
The New York Times Should Men Become More Like Women?The New York Times“Why ‘Lean In’? It’s Time for Men to ‘Lean Out,’” by Ruth Whippman (Sunday Review, Oct. 13), reminds me of the most typical trap in couples therapy, where one side sees its faults as primarily due to flawed
The New York TimesOpinion 24 Hours Without My PhoneThe New York TimesThis article is part of David Leonhardt’s newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. In 2008, Tiffany Shlain’s father, Leonard, was diagnosed with brain cancer, and she began to change
The New York TimesOpinion The Enduring Power of Anticapitalism in American PoliticsThe New York TimesBernie Sanders is a longtime admirer of Eugene Debs, the labor organizer and political radical who pioneered a distinctly American socialism in the first decades of the 20th century. Before Sanders, Debs
The New York TimesOpinion They Are Not the Resistance. They Are Not a Cabal. They Are Public Servants.The New York TimesThis article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this editorial misstated when Joel Clement, an Interior Department official, filed a whistle-blower complaint. was
The New York Times Chile Learns the Price of Economic InequalityThe New York TimesChile is often praised as a capitalist oasis, a prospering and stable nation on a continent where both prosperity and stability have been in short supply. But that prosperity has accumulated mostly in
The New York Times Beyond the Grave: Franco’s Memory ExhumedThe New York TimesOn Oct. 24, Spain is to disinter the mortal remains of Gen. Francisco Franco — the caudillo of Spain “by the grace of God” who ruled the country for 36 years — from his official tomb at the Valley of Fallen,
The New York TimesOpinion Has the Ballroom Scene Outgrown ‘Realness’?The New York Times“The category is love!” Billy Porter shouted from the podium last month after accepting an Emmy for his role on “Pose,” the FX show about New York City’s ballroom scene during the 1980s and ’90s. His expressed
The New York TimesOpinion But Her Emails …The New York TimesDonald Trump raised that question like a red flag for three years, as candidate and president, casting doubts on how Hillary Clinton used a private email server to communicate with her staff and others
The New York TimesOpinion I Did Not Join the Army to Abandon Our AlliesThe New York TimesIn the Video Op-Ed above, Alan Kennedy, a captain in the Colorado Army National Guard who served this summer in northern Syria, condemns President Trump’s decision to fully withdraw American troops from
The New York TimesOpinion ‘Watership Down’ and the Crisis of LiberalismThe New York TimesWhen a newspaper columnist wants to write about a novel, the rule is that you’re supposed to have a “hook,” an excuse, a timely reason to bring up the book in question. Maybe an anniversary-of-publication,
The New York TimesCanada Canada Isn’t So Different. It Could Go Populist Too.The New York TimesTORONTO — It has become taboo in Canada’s established political circles to question what the world trading order has done to the country’s vaunted middle class. Vocally criticizing free trade deals, such
