Robert Mueller seemed to be hoping during congressional hearings on Wednesday that SEAL Team 6 would rush in and rescue him from his interrogators.Opinion6 Aug 2024
Melinda Gates has always had an independent streak. When she was still Melinda French and a young employee working at Microsoft in 1987, Bill Gates flirted with her in the parking lot and asked if she would go out with him in two weeks. She turned him down.Opinion6 Aug 2024
President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping of China will probably soon reach a trade agreement, but that won't solve the biggest problems.Opinion6 Aug 2024
President Donald Trump claimed last June to have ended the practice of separating immigrant families at the southern border. “We are going to keep the families together,” he declared from the Oval Office.Opinion6 Aug 2024
Jared Kushner slipped quietly into Saudi Arabia last week for a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, so the question I’m trying to get the White House to answer is this: Did they discuss American help for a Saudi nuclear program?Opinion6 Aug 2024
As President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un hold a summit meeting this upcoming week in Vietnam, they have something in common: Each apparently looks in the mirror and sees a Nobel Peace Prize winner.Opinion6 Aug 2024
We’re seeing a backlash from the #MeToo movement, with many male bosses saying in surveys that they are less willing now to mentor junior female colleagues, go to dinner with them, travel with them — generally treat them as co-workers rather than as land mines.Opinion5 Aug 2024
Remember this name: Loujain (pronounced Loo-JAYNE) al-Hathloul. She is 29 years old and a courageous advocate for gender equality — so she is in a Saudi Arabian prison, and reportedly our Saudi allies have tortured her, even waterboarded her.Opinion5 Aug 2024
I’d like to apologize to all the “banana republics” I’ve offended over the decades with snarky references to their dysfunction. This is karma: I now live in a nation where a petulant president has shut down much of the most powerful government in the world — so the White House isn’t even paying its water bills.Opinion5 Aug 2024
The world is, as everyone knows, going to hell, but there’s still the nervous thrill of waiting to see precisely which dark force will take us down. Will the economy collapse first, the ice sheets melt first, or chaos and war envelop us first?Opinion1 Aug 2024
<em xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This is the latest installment in my occasional series of conversations about Christianity. Previously, I’ve spoken with the </em><em xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Rev. Timothy Keller</em><em xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">, </em><em xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Jimmy Carter</em><em xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> and </em><em xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Cardinal Joseph Tobin</em><em xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xht...Opinion1 Aug 2024
ADEN, Yemen — I’m giving up most of my column space today to introduce you to Abrar Ibrahim, a 12-year-old girl in Yemen who weighs just 28 pounds. Nothing I write can be as searing or persuasive or true as Abrar is in this photo.
Tuesday is 35 years since I walked into The New York Times for my first day of work. It was my first real job, initially covering international business and economics, and to mark the anniversary I’ve gone back and dug up some of the pieces over the decades that were particularly meaningful to me.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — It’s awkward to find yourself in a police state interviewing people about their leader’s penchant for starving children, torturing women or dismembering critics.Opinion20 Jul 2019
After instructing four women of color in the House of Representatives to “go back” where they came from, President Donald Trump now claims, “I don’t have a Racist bone in my body!”