These days, members of Malaysia’s pre-eminent party, the United Malays National Organisation (Umno), are feeling hot and bothered. Following a period in the wilderness after its 2018 defeat, the party was brought into the governing coalition in late February after the infamous “Sheraton Move”, a backroom manoeuvre that led to the ousting of Tun Dr […]

A striking thing about the current moment is that if you switch back and forth between reading conservatives and liberals, you see mirror-image anxieties about authoritarianism and totalitarianism, which each side believes are developing across the partisan divide. Last Sunday I wrote in response to liberals who fear a postelection coup or a second-term slide […]

TWISP, Wash. — At dawn the deer are as thick as cattle in the valley bottom, feeding on what remains after summer’s final haying. Soon, hunting season’s first shot will scatter them to higher country, where winds shake the aspens’ first golden coins to the ground. There’s not much time. So they eat the stubble […]

During the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, Americans were bombarded with contradictory information. Don’t wear masks! Actually, no, scratch that — wear them all the time! Stay in the house! Go outside! Get tested! Don’t get tested! Confused, afraid and desperate to survive, we turned to one of our favorite […]

The prime minister of Canada has twice already run aground while negotiating the not-so-difficult to navigate waters of ethical parliamentary behaviour. So it is, well, scandalous to behold the spectacle of Liberal members of Parliament repeatedly engaging in what is charitably described as “filibustering” in order to delay a vote on the disclosure of additional […]

When Science Is Pushed Aside This article is part of a special Sunday Review: End This National Crisis. Supported by Downplaying the dangers of the pandemic and politicizing public health measures was grossly negligent and cost untold lives. By Jeneen Interlandi Ms. Interlandi is a member of the editorial board. Kathleen Kingsbury, acting editorial page […]

This article was originally published in the Friday edition of our Opinion Today newsletter. Before Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, the Times editorial board warned voters that our presidents are role models for our children. “Is this the example we want for them?” Kids who are too young to remember anyone else have […]

(Reuters) – Blackstone Real Estate Partners and co-investors have agreed to sell BioMed Realty for $14.6 billion to a group led by existing BioMed investors, Blackstone Group Inc BX.N said on Thursday. Blackstone had agreed to buy BioMed Realty, a supplier of office space to healthcare companies, in late 2015 in a deal valued at […]

This pivotal moment isn’t the result of four years of Donald Trump. It’s the culmination of 50 years of social decay. “The Upswing,” a remarkable new book by Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett, puts this situation in stark relief. A careful work of social science, the book looks at American life from about […]

What, in the Trump era, does the face of complicity look like? Sometimes the answer is obvious. Mitch McConnell. William Barr. Lindsey Graham. But sometimes it’s someone who’s less well known. The face might register, but the name escapes you. It’s just a man in rimless glasses and a dark suit. I’m talking about Rod […]