Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Beth Myers, who supervised the vice-presidential selection process for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, and Jim Jordan, a…
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On an Alabama day so oppressive that the sweat pools on your face in the shade, Alex Flachsbart talks almost too rapidly to understand and drives around central Birmingham with…
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Dr. Khaled El Serr last spoke to his family in mid-March, a week before Israeli troops raided the hospital in southern Gaza where he worked as a surgeon. “No one…
A more-than-year-long rally in Japanese stocks, driven by the country’s depreciated currency, hit a wall at the end of the week. Japan’s Topix index, which includes companies that represent a…
The former Marine poked his head out of the jet and then lifted his hand in salute. The Wall Street Journal reporter greeted his waiting colleagues with a wide grin…
Yves here. Rajiv Sethi stresses a key point: that presidential-election-impinging events have been so far out of band as to render many of the correlations in statistical models useless. Sethi…
Three years ago, as Eric Adams was running for mayor of New York City, his campaign was raking in donations from a broad range of mysterious sources. There was the…
A turning point came on June 25, when a group of C.I.A. officers sat across from their Russian counterparts during a secret meeting in a Middle Eastern capital. The Americans…