Less than three weeks until the election and I know you’re obsessed about those Senate races. Seriously. You’ve gone as far as you can go with Joe Biden and Donald Trump. You now know more about them than about many members of your family. You sure see a hell of a lot more of them […]

When Facebook’s founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, told me two years ago in a podcast interview that Holocaust deniers might not mean to lie, my first instinct was to reply, “That’s completely idiotic.” I managed to stifle myself. In our interview, I let him explain how he wanted to govern the giant social media […]

More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “Racism in the Principal’s Office: Seeking Justice for Black Girls” (front page, Oct. 2): In New York City, in the year 2020, a girl who defends her friend in a fight can be charged with a felony for gang activity, sending her to detention and a lifetime […]

BERLIN — Germany is no longer playing nice with Russia. In the past few weeks, Germany has helped to rescue Russia’s main opposition leader, Aleksei Navalny, and accused Moscow of poisoning him; rolled out the red carpet for Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the Belarusian opposition leader who tried to topple one of Russia’s satellite regimes; and accused […]

As I watched the first Trump-Biden debate, a vision popped into my head. I imagined that the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party had also gathered to watch the debate — but its members decided to make it more entertaining by playing a drinking game. Every time Donald Trump said something ridiculous or embarrassing for […]

Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, has faced immense scrutiny of her religious beliefs, and we need to be vigilant against any religious bias or discrimination. But I marvel at the hypocrisy of Republicans who are expressing shock and outrage over this, after the way the right has treated Muslims. President […]

Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. China tests all nine million residents of one city. Biden and Trump hit the campaign trail. And the Barrett confirmation hearings continue. The problems Barrett poses The opening day of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing showed the very different problems that her […]

Before regulators held their ground earlier this month, there were good reasons to be concerned about President Trump’s push for a coronavirus vaccine. But he had already missed becoming the first world leader to get one approved. Vladimir Putin of Russia had already done it. And in stark contrast to Mr. Trump’s “America First” approach, […]

Where would we be now if we had a truly politically incorrect president? Donald Trump is supposed to be politically incorrect, but, for the most part, he isn’t. He’s mainly just a jerk. Jerkishness is often mistaken for political incorrectness, in the way that blind luck is easily mistaken for great skill. They’re fundamentally different. […]

The medical drama playing out daily since President Donald Trump contracted COVID-19 is alarming — but not surprising. Any physician who’s ever rendered medical advice or hospital care to a prominent person probably empathizes with Trump’s medical team. It’s a real challenge to care for VIP patients, whether they’re hospitalized or not. Of course, following […]