By Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times As we approach the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — and the ferocious Ukrainian response backed by a U.S.-led Western coalition — the following question urgently needs answering: How is it that on Feb. 23, 2022, virtually no one […]

Tuesday’s State of the Union marked a turning point. This was an aggressive and expansive progressive political, economic and social agenda set against Putin’s worn out GOP cat-calling clown caucus. President Biden was in full force, speaking clearly and forcefully, with the full weight of two years of concrete achievements […]

My column last week on the arrest of Charlie McGonigal, the top level U.S. FBI counterintelligence official who took money of a Russian oligarch prior to the 2016 presidential election and triggered the FBI’s last minute reopening of the Hillary emails case that gave Trump the win, has reopened the […]

By Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times If I could get a memo onto President Joe Biden’s desk about the new Israeli government, I know exactly how it would start: “Dear Mr. President, I don’t know if you are interested in Jewish history, but Jewish history is certainly […]

Of course, the timing of revelations like this is always an issue (such as in this case, the fact it awaited the transition to a new party in control of the House), but the arrest of perhaps the most consequential person at the FBI, Charlie McGonigal, for ostensible espionage on […]

This Martin Luther King Jr. weekend was different in a subtle but important way, or so I perceived it. Two major addresses by President Joe Biden set the tone, The first at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta marking the first time a sitting U.S. president has delivered remarks from […]

By Mara Gay of The New York Times For some lucky American children, summer means campfires with new friends, long hikes in the woods, hot days swimming in cool lakes, magical nights under starry skies. Summer camp is a cherished experience for millions of children, an American tradition with deep […]

By Tiffany Hsu of The York Times Nearly three years into the pandemic, Covid-19 remains stubbornly persistent. So, too, does misinformation about the virus. As Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths rise in parts of the country, myths and misleading narratives continue to evolve and spread, exasperating overburdened doctors and evading […]

By Paul Krugman of The New York Times I admit it: Like many liberals, I’m feeling a fair bit of MAGAfreude — taking some pleasure in the self-destruction of the American right. There has, after all, never been a spectacle like the chaos we’ve seen in the House of Representatives […]

By Charles M Blow of The New York Times Republicans keep reaping what they’ve sown. The party’s thoroughly embarrassing inability to choose a speaker of the House after multiple attempts is a crisis of its own creation. Since at least the Barack Obama years, the Republican Party has seen a […]