Bret Stephens: Merry Christmas, Gail. So Donald Trump has been impeached in the House. I know we agree that it was the right thing to do, from a moral and Constitutional standpoint. Yet I have a sinking feeling that, politically, it’s going to cost the Democrats dearly. Where do things go from here? Gail Collins: […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering plans for a new U.S. defense strategy and Boeing’s change in leadership. And, in a break from the news, we have an exclusive video interview with Taylor Swift. Pentagon considers a drawdown in Africa Defense Secretary Mark Esper is weighing a […]

The story of the Nazarene birth of a child inspires many of us to take stock, to look back and reflect on what we value as we approach the season of goodwill and contemplate our future. Our values reflect what is important to us in our lives – they guide our behaviour as individuals, as […]

Well it’s Christmas wonderland time again, that annual pause for midwinter celebration. The season of three wise men bearing gifts. The hope for peace on earth. Celebratory family gatherings, squabbles and rifts. A time when doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics and firefighters work unseasonal night shifts. Christmas as we know it, with cards and trees, seems […]

One of the paradoxes of this presidential campaign is that while many of the candidates are in their eighth decade of life, fundamental issues associated with the aging of American society are still receiving relatively little attention from the public, the press and politicians themselves. In 2031, the oldest baby boomers will turn 85, entering […]

Good morning. We’re covering the ouster of Boeing’s chief executive, what Saudi Arabia’s sentencing of men involved in Jamal Khashoggi’s murder means and the latest challenge caused by the Fukushima disaster. With crisis far from over, Boeing fires C.E.O. The airplane manufacturer’s board of directors ousted Dennis Muilenburg, who came under fire for his handling […]

The hymn sheet that Brendan Kenny and Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy are sharing strikes a discordant note. They’re duetting on a lament about planning objectors, blaming them for difficulties in getting housing built. Kenny’s comments follow Murphy’s recent gripe to the Oireachtas Housing Committee when he complained of the “hypocrisy” that he encountered “every day” […]

On behalf of all the men and children of Ireland, I would like to thank the women of Ireland for all the emotional and physical labour they put into making Christmas such an enjoyable occasion for all of us. We’d be lost without them. It is worth remembering that, on events leading up to the […]

Thursday night, Christianity Today, long known as the “flagship” magazine of American evangelicalism, broke the internet with an editorial arguing for the impeachment and removal of Donald Trump from office. The piece, penned by the magazine’s outgoing editor, Mark Galli, implored evangelicals to consider the “unambiguous facts” of the impeachment case against the president, maintaining […]

To the Editor: Re “Conservatives Against Trump,” by George T. Conway III, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver and Rick Wilson (Op-Ed, Dec. 19), announcing their Lincoln Project, an effort to preserve American values and defeat the president: I used to be a conservative and a Republican. Now I’m neither. However, the eloquent statement by four highly […]