This Is No Way to Run a Democracy
Bret Stephens: Hi Gail. So it turns out that Joe Biden really did win Arizona last year. Are you … shocked? Gail Collins: Pass the champagne …
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What America Can Learn From New York City
This isn’t a comeback story — not yet. This is about how New Yorkers are carrying on after we lost 34,000 of our neighbors and were left to pile …
Democrats Face a Reckoning With Themselves
Precious few bills sitting up on Capitol Hill make it into law. Large, sprawling bills aimed at remaking chunks of American society require …
Can Beto O’Rourke Pull a Stacey Abrams?
Produced by ‘Sway’ Beto O’Rourke came close to unseating Senator Ted Cruz in 2018 and fell far from winning the presidency in 2020. Now the …
Catalan Separatist Leaves Italy, Dodging Spain’s Latest Effort to Prosecute Him
Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan separatist wanted in Spain for leading a failed breakaway movement in his region four years ago, left Italy on …
Intimate Portraits of Mexico’s Third-Gender Muxes
Estrella has long, wavy, jet-back hair. She tries to tame it with a thick-toothed comb in the backyard of her house, among the chickens, hammocks …
Scotland’s Oil Industry Is Fading as Wind Energy Beckons
ABERDEEN, Scotland — It’s easy to see how vital oil is to this venerable port city on Scotland’s northeast coast. Step out the door of the small …
Social Democrats win German election by slimmest of margins.
As Germany’s election results came into sharper focus on Monday, no party won decisive majority but the loser was clear: Chancellor Angela Merkel …
It Could Have Been a Fresh Start. But Germany Is Stuck.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 16 years in charge of Germany are coming to a close. Just not quite yet. On Sunday, voters cast their ballots — and …
Your Monday Briefing
Olaf Scholz, the S.P.D. candidate, during the election party in Berlin on Sunday.Credit…Britta Pedersen/DPA, via Associated PressA narrow …