Opinion | Trying to Prove You’re Not a Racist
Since I started writing this newsletter, once about every couple of weeks I have received a missive from someone troubled by a controversy involving race, usually in the workplace. These…
Opinion | Wonking Out: What Ukraine Needs From Us
Lately I’ve been seeing what seems like a growing number of reports about Ukraine’s economic difficulties. And it definitely makes sense to focus more on the country’s economy now that…
Opinion | Extreme Religious Liberty Is Undermining Public Health
A federal judge ruled last week that requiring employers to cover PrEP, a medication that helps people at high risk for H.I.V. avoid infection, violates religious liberty because these employers…
U.S. Asks Appeals Court to Restore Access to Sensitive Records Seized From Trump
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department asked an appeals court on Friday to let the F.B.I. regain access to about 100 sensitive documents taken from former President Donald J. Trump’s residence…
Trump’s Team of Lawyers Marked by Infighting and Possible Legal Troubles of Its Own
To understand the pressures, feuds and questions about competence within former President Donald J. Trump’s legal team as he faces potential prosecution on multiple fronts, consider the experience of Eric…
The Job of the Special Master in the Trump Documents Inquiry, Explained
WASHINGTON — The appointment of an independent arbiter, known as a special master, to filter the documents that F.B.I. agents seized last month from former President Donald J. Trump’s residence…
‘M*A*S*H’ at 50: War Is Hell(arious)
The pilot episode of “M*A*S*H,” which aired on Sept. 17, 1972, on CBS, lets you know immediately where and when you are. Sort of. “KOREA 1950,” the opening titles read.…
Alan Alda on ‘M*A*S*H’: ‘Everybody Had Something Taken From Them’
When we think of the default mode of much of contemporary television — mingling the tragic and the offhand, broad comedy and pinpoint sentiment — we are thinking of a…
Chrissy Teigen says she has come to realise she had an abortion, not a miscarriage
She told the session about having a miscarriage, before stopping herself and saying: “Let’s just call it what it was. It was an abortion. An abortion to save my life…
Why are migrants in the US being sent to Democrat-run areas?
“The big question is what they are being told, and if there is any sort of fraud or inducement,” immigration lawyer Aleksander Cuic, the director of the Immigration Clinic at…