(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering a momentous day in Washington, tonight’s Democratic debate, and a ruling against the Affordable Care Act. We also present the decade in pictures. Timing of impeachment trial is in limbo After the House voted on Wednesday to impeach President Trump, Speaker […]

This fall, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto gave a botched face-lift to “Turandot," a Puccini opera about a barbaric Chinese princess in “ancient Peking” who executes her suitors. To try to mask the racism of the opera, the director changed the names of Ping, Pang and Pong, three of the main characters, to Jim, […]

Belief in free markets is going out of fashion across Europe. Support for bigger government is growing. The change in fashion has seen low-tax parties, such as Ireland’s Progressive Democrats, decline or die out – a big reason why taxes as a share of economic activity hit an all-time high across the EU 28 countries […]

Saturday’s winter solstice is the day of least daylight in the calendar year. Astronomers maintain it marks the end of autumn and the beginning of winter. In meteorology, winter begins earlier, spanning December, January and February. The seasonal significance of the winter solstice is that daylight gradually increases until the summer solstice in June. Although […]

We columnists imagine our articles going viral, sweeping the world, carried into cabinet rooms, changing history. And then I wake up. Today I’m sharing with you my clunkers, columns that were read by … well, perhaps by my wife. And my mom. If they weren’t busy. This is my annual list of my columns that […]

On the face of it, India’s new citizenship law might seem quite reasonable in its offer of expedited citizenship for migrants of minority religions from neighboring countries. What’s not to like in offering refuge to minority groups facing repression in predominantly Muslim states? A lot, as India’s Muslims, about 14 percent of the population, have […]

As the House prepares to vote on impeaching President Trump, there is no doubt that the Republican Party is behind him. Not a single House Republican voted to open an impeachment inquiry, and party officials have faithfully defended the president by denying facts and evidence that are beyond dispute and disseminating false narratives. One only […]

When the framers of our Constitution laid out the process of impeachment in 1787, they could hardly imagine the circumstances that brought us to this week’s vote in the House. With the combination of a telephone call soliciting foreign interference in our election, the hiding of that call’s summary on a special computer server and […]

The F.B.I.’s investigation of the former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, we can now say with assurance, was a train wreck. In his report, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz cataloged a damning list of egregious errors, omissions or misrepresentations in filings to the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which approved nearly a year’s worth […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering today’s planned impeachment vote in the House, a warning to the F.B.I., and a record heat wave in Australia. We also have a review of “The Rise of Skywalker.” House is set to vote on impeachment Lawmakers are expected to vote […]