Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Jamelle Bouie Opinion Columnist The justices of the Supreme Court aren’t always open about their views, but there are times when they inadvertently reveal just how skewed their perspective is. First, […]

GOOSE LAKE, Iowa — “We’re like a bunch of blind bats. We human beings are, we millennials are, we Americans are,” Vivek Ramaswamy riffed. “We can’t see where we are.” Bats send sonar signals, which bounce off fixed points and allow the mammal to navigate. “So we do that, we send out our signals and […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is expected to enter the race for the Republican presidential nomination this week. Much of the narrative around him has focused on who he isn’t — Donald Trump. But DeSantis has also claimed the national spotlight for his role in the culture wars. In Florida, he has made education a […]

Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. It looks like we’ll be getting two new campaign launches soon in the race for the Republican presidential nomination: Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. Any free advice you want to offer them on how they can beat you-know-who? Gail Collins: Gee, Bret, I guess […]

G7 wraps with support for Ukraine The G7 summit concluded yesterday in Japan with leaders of the world’s major economies welcoming President Volodymyr Zelensky as an honored guest and reaffirming their support of Ukraine. But Russia claimed victory in Bakhmut, even though Ukraine says that it still holds a few blocks of the ruined city. […]

More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “Insurers Add Primary Care to Portfolios” (front page, May 9): It seems to me that the fact that “multibillion-dollar corporations, particularly giant health insurers,” are gobbling up primary care practices to make more money and increase their control of health care delivery is old news to most […]

Three years ago, as I stood at the bedside of my first patient with the coronavirus, I struggled to understand why someone relatively young and healthy had become so sick. The unknown of the virus was frightening enough — to think that severe illness could strike at random was untenable. Even in my personal protective […]

KYIV, Ukraine — On Friday morning, local time, I received news of one of the best American decisions of the war: The White House would no longer block its European allies from supplying Ukraine with American-made F-16 fighters, a move that should greatly enhance Ukrainian military capabilities without significantly increasing the risk of unacceptable escalation […]

A few years ago, when I lived in Northern California, I often hiked under old-growth redwoods. The roots of these mammoth trees, stretching some 200 feet into the air above us, run only six to 12 feet deep. Instead of growing down, they grow out, extending dozens of feet to each side, enmeshing themselves with […]

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Maureen Dowd Opinion Columnist WASHINGTON — The orgasm heard around the world was reported by Magnus Fiennes, a composer and music producer who is the brother of Ralph Fiennes. After going […]