At least for now, the establishment and the base share the fight against “woke,” for two reasons: The new left is far enough left that there’s room to side with the right while keeping one or both feet in the center. Whether it’s a MAGA fan or a Reaganite, there’s a path for an enterprising […]
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What can I do, personally, about the climate crisis? You often ask us a version of this question. That was especially true this week, after the latest international scientific report on global warming. Some of the most obvious answers can seem frustrating. Not everyone can install solar panels on their roof or give up driving, […]
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If you pay any attention to legal news at all, you’re familiar with the Stanford Law School shout-down. The story is simple and disturbing. The Federalist Society chapter at Stanford Law School invited Judge Kyle Duncan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to speak on a fascinating and important topic (for […]
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Instead of using the C.D.C.’s report to confirm our prior suspicions, we need to get curious — about the results, about how to think differently about potential causes of mental health challenges and about what teenagers are really trying to tell us about the world when they say they’re stressed, anxious or depressed. The Limitations […]
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A lot of people believe I make political predictions, but that’s not really true. Instead, I try to marshal history, data, polling, reporting and more to help make sense of the political landscape. It usually amounts to one of those old, yellowish, distorted maps from the age of exploration. It offers only a rough guide […]
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“There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all (very high confidence).” This is the most striking sentence in a 37-page summary, issued today, of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It tells us what’s possible. It tells us the stakes. The report […]
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Donald Kohn, a former vice chair of the Fed, and William English, a former top staffer, wrote in June that the Fed isn’t designed to be a profit-making institution. They conceded that if the Fed kept losing money, its borrowing needs could potentially become so big that they would interfere with the conduct of monetary […]
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Thus Newman’s fellow English Catholic churchman Cardinal Henry Manning argued that the pope’s infallibility covered “all legislative or judicial acts, so far as they are inseparably connected with his doctrinal authority” and similarly that “laws of discipline, canonizations of saints, approbation of religious orders, of devotions, and the like” would all “intrinsically contain the truths […]
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What’s wild around you? Turns out, quite a bit. A few weeks ago, we asked you about the interactions you’ve been having with wildlife in your communities, and, wow, I’m jealous. Don’t get me wrong, I’m lucky to live in Rio de Janeiro. I’ve been harassed by sneaky marmosets, shouted at by croaking toucans and […]
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It’s been a tough few months for Ron DeSantis. Donald J. Trump and his allies have blasted him as “Meatball Ron,” “Ron DeSanctimonious,” a “groomer,” disloyal and a supporter of cutting entitlement programs. Now, he’s getting criticism from many mainstream conservatives for calling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a “territorial dispute.” Is all of this making […]
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On March 8, 1983, Ronald Reagan gave one of the most famous speeches of his presidency, an address that would go down in history as the “evil empire speech.” If you watch it today — and you remember the Reagan presidency — you can see that it was vintage Reagan, full of confidence in the […]
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The savings and loan crisis had a lot to do with the very bad decision by Congress to relax regulations on those associations, which were in financial trouble as a result of high interest rates. There are obvious parallels to the crisis at Silicon Valley Bank, which also hit a wall because of rising interest […]
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“We saw in 2018, particularly with a lot of the climate emphasis, that people were pulling back from oil and gas,” Darren Woods, the chief executive of Exxon, said at one session. “We leaned in. We were heavily criticized for doing that at the time, but we recognized that, at some point, that supply was […]
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“It often happens in democratic countries,” he continues, that many men who have the desire or the need to associate cannot do it, because all being very small and lost in the crowd, they do not see each other and do not know where to find each other. Up comes a newspaper that exposes to […]
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Running in the charisma lane — Sarah Palin’s rise is a good example — doesn’t seem to work as well for women running nationally, because they can more easily be dismissed as unserious. Palin had more political experience than Trump or Lake when she ran for vice president, but it’s also noteworthy that several years […]
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Molly Young is on leave for the next several months. In her absence, colleagues from the Book Review will pick up the recommendation torch and appear in your inbox every two Saturdays. Dear readers, I broke my wrist last week, at the ice rink. “Playing hockey?” one of my brothers asked when I texted a […]
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Why Silicon Valley Bank, though? What made it especially vulnerable? One reason is that many of its loans are in the tech sector, which as you may have heard is hurting. Another, perhaps more important reason is that it relies heavily on deposits from institutions rather than individuals. The people who run companies, investment funds […]
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My wife and I are retired, elderly and proud of our family, which includes three daughters and several grandchildren. Fortunately, we have had the ability to be financially generous with our family and have established educational trusts for each of our grandchildren’s college tuition. All of our grandchildren have been appreciative, except for the youngest, […]
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Years later, she worked on a documentary series that followed her while she tried to convince her father, a prominent evangelical pastor who has called on Christians to arm themselves for an inevitable war against liberals, that climate change is a reality. She failed, but the experience provided an opportunity for her to ask producers […]
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I’m trying something a little different in today’s newsletter. A big part of what I try to do is to look for insights that explain the patterns and trends in world events, in ways that go beyond any single news story. Reading this newsletter should help you understand not just the latest development, but the […]
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6. ‘Terrible, Thanks for Asking’ Nora McInerny, an author and self-described “reluctant grief expert,” treats listeners to refreshingly honest conversations about how people are really doing. She interviews people who have endured transformative events, like the death of a loved one, as well as experts such as Susan David, a psychologist who assails the tyranny […]
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His corruption, his eagerness to put millions of dollars of taxpayer money into his resorts and properties and his willingness to let his family accept vast sums from foreign entities is profoundly troubling. We’ll likely be discovering further examples of his outright graft for years, if not decades. There’s considerable evidence that suggests he committed […]
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This is not just the doing of the I.R.A. To a degree hardly anyone but wonks really appreciates, green energy in the United States was a heavily red-state phenomenon before the legislation even hit Mr. Biden’s desk in August. Already, Texas produces more renewable energy than anywhere else in the country — in fact, almost […]
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Hip-hop has been a glorious revolution, indeed — in music, period. Be it party music, protest music, political music, obscene music or Dr. Octagon, a genre that started as street fun in the Bronx has transformed the musical fabric and sensibility of America — as well as that of the whole world. (I once watched […]
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My brother-in-law and his wife adopted a dog a year ago. Since then, every time they have come over to our home, they have brought the dog too. My husband and children aren’t incredibly fond of pets. This creates some uncomfortable situations for us. I don’t think we truly enjoy their company, because they are […]
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Swap spying for marriage and you have, more or less, the argument of Deniz Kandiyoti’s famous 1988 article Bargaining With Patriarchy. She analyzed the ways that women in India and the United States are first pressured into accepting the “bargain” of becoming reliant on a man in exchange for the promise of his support and […]
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March is here, which means spring and the gift of later sunsets are just around the corner. I feel downright ebullient. I can’t wait to see the city in bloom, to eat outside and to celebrate the first anniversary of this newsletter. (Can you believe?) Nearly 12 months in, and you all are still sending […]
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Hello! I’m Catrin. I cover biodiversity for the Climate and Environment team here at The Times. Sometimes people forget that latter part of our name, with so much focus these days on climate change. But we cover all kinds of environmental issues. Plus, the climate and biodiversity crises are deeply linked, and scientists say they […]
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Several years ago, I edited a story by the historian Alexis Coe about the different ways literary husbands and wives publicly acknowledge each other in their books. To summarize and perhaps oversimplify: Husbands tend to thank their wives for their actual labor, like editing and research help, while wives tended to thank their husbands for […]
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We have an employee we would like to have fired months ago because of his lack of reliability and poor work ethic. He has been with our company for almost a decade — since he graduated from college — but his productivity and commitment have been declining for a long time. We knew his father […]
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Economists have been arguing fiercely about inflation for around two years now, and that’s fine. The pandemic disrupted business as usual, led to some extraordinarily large policy responses and was followed by a large rise in inflation. Of course people are debating the extent to which inflation was caused by pandemic disruptions as opposed to […]
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