Debating the risks and rewards of requiring proof of vaccination, as the coronavirus Delta variant rages on. Produced by ‘The Argument’ Requiring proof of vaccination isn’t a novel idea. Schools across the United States require students to get certain vaccinations
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F.D.A., Not F.D.R.
The F.D.A.’s full approval of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine is already making a difference. Within hours of the announcement yesterday, the Pentagon and several large companies and universities announced new vaccine mandates. President Biden, speaking at the White House yesterday afternoon,
Opinion | This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ “Trauma is much more than a story about something that happened long ago,” writes Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. “The emotions and physical sensations that were imprinted during the trauma are experienced not as
Your Monday Briefing
U.S. steps up efforts to evacuate Afghans. By Amelia Nierenberg Good morning. We’re covering the latest on the U.S. effort to evacuate Afghans in Kabul, the extended lockdown in Australia and America’s fast-growing Asian population. U.S. orders airlines to help
Opinion | For Aretha Franklin, a Grudge Was a Way to Earn R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Aretha Franklin was a master of grudges. For about 30 years, she routinely refused interviews with Time magazine, because she didn’t like something that it had once published about her mother. She feuded with David Ritz, a co-author of her
Opinion | The Pandemic Showed Us How to Have Better Meetings
In a June email to his staff, Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, wrote: “Video conference calling has narrowed the distance between us, to be sure, but there are things it simply cannot replicate.” He then announced plans for
Opinion | Did America Betray Afghanistan?
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Tuesdays and Thursdays. President Biden’s rationale for withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan has long been simple: No progress was going to be made
Opinion | How a ’00s College Debate Team Predicted Today’s Culture Wars
This is a preview of the Jay Caspian Kang newsletter, which is reserved for Times subscribers. Sign up to get it in your inbox twice a week. By their very nature, formal competitive debates are absurd and embarrassing for everyone
Opinion | The Tragedy of Afghanistan
The rapid reconquest of the capital, Kabul, by the Taliban after two decades of a staggeringly expensive, bloody effort to establish a secular government with functioning security forces in Afghanistan is, above all, unutterably tragic. Tragic because the American dream
Opinion | Who Will Take Care of America’s Caregivers?
When you are old and gray and full of sleep and nodding by the fire — whom do you expect to help take care of you? Family? Friends? Paid aides? All of the above? The nation’s caregiving work force is