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Russia called the public meeting an example of “megaphone diplomacy.” Credit…Andrew Kelly/ReutersU.S. and Russia clash at the U.N. The U.S …
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Literary Freedom as an Essential Human Right
“The freedom to write”: PEN America’s always resonant motto has a special resonance for Black authors, because for so many of them, that freedom …
Christian Nationalism Is One of Trump’s Most Powerful Weapons
This article is part of a collection on the events of Jan. 6, one year later. Read more in a note from Times Opinion’s politics editor Ezekiel …
ABC Suspends Whoopi Goldberg Over Holocaust Comments
Whoopi Goldberg, the comedian and actress who is also a co-host of the ABC talk show “The View,” will be suspended for two weeks, the network …
‘There’s Almost No Incentive at All to Give Him the Vaccine.’
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, a mother I interviewed as part of my study on pandemic parenting said, she never had a problem with vaccines. Her 2 …
Texas Hostage Taker Was Known to British Intelligence
LONDON — The British man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue over the weekend before being killed was known to British intelligence …
The Once and Future Threat of Trump
Last fall, before the November election, Barton Gellman wrote an essay for The Atlantic sketching out a series of worst-case scenarios for the …
Democrats Shouldn’t Panic. They Should Go Into Shock.
The rise of inflation, supply chain shortages, a surge in illegal border crossings, the persistence of Covid, mayhem in Afghanistan and the …
‘Nothing should be ruled out,’ Germany’s health minister says of a possible nationwide lockdown.
As Austria prepares to go into a national lockdown next week, the health minister in neighboring Germany suggested on Friday that a similar …
Boris Johnson’s Charm Is Wearing Extremely Thin
PENZANCE, England — During the Covid pandemic, we Britons have developed a tabloid obsession with “saving Christmas,” as if it were a beloved pet …