Opinion | The View Within Israel Turns Bleak
It was the pictures of Palestinians swimming and sunning at a Gaza beach that rubbed Yehuda Shlezinger, an Israeli journalist, the wrong way. Stylish in round red glasses and a…
Saintly, Seductive or Sadistic? Why We Can’t Make Up Our Minds About Nuns.
From Chaucer’s supercilious Madame Eglantine in “The Canterbury Tales,” with her spoiled lap dogs and secular French airs, to Ryan Murphy’s ruthless Sister Jude in 2012’s “American Horror Story: Asylum,”…
Russia Presses Attacks in Northeast Ukraine, Seeking Buffer Zone on Border
Russian forces continued to press a grinding advance on Saturday into northeastern Ukraine, moving closer to a village about 10 miles from the outer ring of Kharkiv and raising fears…
Opinion | Slovakia Is at a Dangerous Moment
“Fico was shot.” The message arrived in one of my group chats shortly after 3 p.m. on Wednesday. I checked the news and forwarded what I could find out to…
Opinion | Wokeness Is Dying. We Might Miss It.
In her new book, “Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History,” Nellie Bowles, a former New York Times journalist grown disillusioned with both the mainstream media…
The Cost of Competing With China
President Biden announced this week that he planned to sharply increase the taxes America imposes on electric vehicles, solar cells, advanced batteries and other climate technologies imported from China. Labor…
Jail Death Lawsuit Is Settled for $7.5 Million Amid California Inquiry
Video from inside a Southern California jail shows a violent confrontation in October 2020 in which 10 sheriff’s deputies burst into the cell of a man who was having delusions…
Display at Alito’s Home Renews Questions of Supreme Court’s Impartiality
News of a “Stop the Steal” symbol that flew at the home of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. after the 2020 election has elicited concerns from politicians, legal scholars and…
How Election Deniers Claimed the Upside-Down Flag
It has been a widely recognized symbol of distress since the nation’s founding, when sailors turned the American flag upside down to signal that their ships were sinking, on fire…
Steve Buscemi: NYPD arrest suspect in random assault on actor
Police said the suspect was Mr Williams, who is believed to be homeless. NYPD did not say on Friday what charges the suspect could face. In a statement after the…