It was Saturday night — protest night in Israel, as it’s been every week since January, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government revealed its plan for “judicial reform,” a gaslighter’s name for regime change. But on this night in mid-July,
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Opinion | Deep Inside Mountains, Work Is Getting Much More Dangerous
As a high school baseball star, Denver Hoskins led Kentucky in home runs and was invited to try out for the Cincinnati Reds. But when his father got sick (and later died) from black lung, a disease caused by inhaling
Opinion | What Jack Smith Knows
Donald Trump openly flatters foreign autocrats such as Vladimir V. Putin and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and in many ways Mr. Trump governed as authoritarians do around the globe: enriching himself, stoking ethnic hatreds, seeking personal control
Opinion | The Coming Biden Impeachment Farce
By Michelle Goldberg Opinion Columnist When House Republicans return from their recess this fall, they’re likely to have an item on their agenda besides pushing the government toward shutdown: impeaching Joe Biden. “You’ve got to get to the bottom of
Opinion | What Happened to Japan?
By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist I hope that at least some of my readers are too young to remember this, but in the early 1990s many Americans — especially pundits, but also business leaders and a fair share of the
Opinion | Our Oppenheimer Moment: The Creation of A.I. Weapons
In 1942, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the son of a painter and a textile importer, was appointed to lead Project Y, the military effort established by the Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons. Oppenheimer and his colleagues worked in secret at
Rethinking the Circus
The idea of Cirque du Soleil might invite images of extravagant live shows with clowns, acrobats and fire breathers. The company is trying to change that. Cirque du Soleil came out of the pandemic in rough shape. So it decided
Opinion | Hoping for a Miracle, Hurtling Toward Disaster
Have you met anyone truly excited about Joe Biden running for re-election? And by that, I mean downright Obama-circa-2008 energized — brimming with enthusiasm about what four more years of Biden would bring to our body politic, our economy, our
Opinion | A Look Back at Our Coming War With China
It is unfair, but tales of war tend to be more exciting than stories of peace. The same is true, perhaps more so, for warnings of wars to come versus assurances of good will. Dire scenarios of risk and escalation
A Positive Covid Milestone
The United States has reached a milestone in the long struggle against Covid: The total number of Americans dying each day — from any cause — is no longer historically abnormal. Excess deaths, as this number is known, has been