Ex-President Sarkozy Convicted of Campaign Spending Violations
PARIS — A French court on Thursday convicted Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president, on charges that he illegally financed his failed 2012 re …
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It Wasn’t Just My Life on That Stage. So Was My Purpose.
I strongly believe in therapy, the idea of talking things out, working them through, as a way of making it over. A therapist once told me that I …
Your Thursday Briefing
The U.S. government will shut down at midnight if Congress fails to act.Credit…T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York TimesDivisions among Democrats …
Why Are Fast Food Workers Signing Noncompete Agreements?
Heidi Shierholz is not a fan of noncompete agreements, which many employers require new hires to sign. The contracts prohibit employees who quit …
Facebook Releases Internal Research, and Downplays It, on Eve of Hearing
Facebook on Wednesday published two internal research reports about its photo-sharing app, Instagram, and downplayed their conclusions, as the …
Let’s Make It Easier for Public Officials to Be Honest
Friends, I’m here to tell you about a simple product that could help to restore public confidence in government officials: the index mutual fund …
Health officials are buying millions of vaccines for Latin America.
The Pan American Health Organization has struck a deal with the Chinese manufacturer Sinovac to purchase millions of Covid-19 vaccines for …
My Fellow Americans, Let’s Be Better Tourists
Americans have long had a reputation for being terrible tourists: loud, rude and too often clad in tube socks. In the years leading up to the …
For Progressives, Iron Dome Isn’t the Issue. It’s Israel Itself.
It would be a mistake to conclude that the sky is falling on the U.S.-Israel relationship or that the Democratic Party has distanced itself from …
‘If You’re Not Vaccinated, Don’t Come to Work’
As New York pushes forward with some of the toughest and farthest-reaching vaccine mandates in the nation, thousands of health care workers in …