How Is the U.S. Economy Doing?
Last week’s employment report was puzzling. The Bureau of Labor Statistics carries out two separate surveys, one of employers and another of …
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Taiwan Loses Nicaragua as Ally as Tensions With China Rise
Nicaragua has broken diplomatic relations with Taiwan in favor of China, further reducing the number of countries that still recognize the self …
I Play Video Games With My 4-Year-Old, and That’s OK
When I was 7 years old,my best friend was a kid named Rob. I can’t recall most of the particulars of Rob’s life, but he seemed to be the luckiest …
We Need Less Talk and More Action From Congress on Tech
I’ve not been shy about calling out social media companies like Meta — parent of Facebook — for amplifying and worsening a range of societal …
Don’t Let ‘Treeson’ Drive You Out of New York City
The Christmas tree went up in smoke within minutes early on Wednesday morning, a fiery blaze of artificial boughs raging outside the Fox News …
I Cherish This Lifeline to My Parents
This article also appears in the Opinion Today newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it in your inbox each weekday morning. When Stephen …
A New Ambition for the European Union: ‘Power’
PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron, in a rare news conference, called on Thursday for the European Union to change from a “Europe of internal …
Omicron Wave Heads for U.K., but It’s Not Clear How Bad It’ll Be
LONDON — With cases of the Omicron variant doubling every three days and the government doing an about-face on restrictions it had long resisted …
As Muratov Accepts Nobel, Legacy of His Russian Predecessors Recedes
MOSCOW — Dmitri A. Muratov,the editor of Novaya Gazeta, perhaps Russia’s bravest independent newspaper, will become the third Russian to be …
Democrats’ Dangerous Appetite for Eating Their Own
The other day, something extraordinary happened. I went six hours — maybe even seven — without seeing anything on the internet about what a …