There isn’t a breeze; not a petal or a leaf is moving and the dead heat is overwhelming. On this particular too-hot-to-breathe July afternoon, we’re in Italy. And, looking out across the typically Tuscan, cypress-tree-dotted landscape, I can actually discern a quivering in the air for as far as my eye can see, something akin, […]

On Oct. 16, 1919, Adolf Hitler became a propagandist. It would be his chief occupation for the rest of his life. Without propaganda, he could never have become a public figure, let alone risen to power. It was as a propagandist that he made a second world war possible, and defined Jews as Germany’s foe. […]

TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Stifel Financial Corp (SF.N) said on Wednesday it has entered into a strategic partnership with OurCrowd, an Israel-based venture capital and crowdfunding platform connecting investors with early-stage startups. Stifel will also make a minority investment in OurCrowd‮,‬ though it did not disclose the amount. The companies will establish a distribution relationship […]

In America, if you play by the rules, working to earn a living and saving to provide for the future, taxes take a piece of your earnings. If you win a state lottery, you owe tax. But if you get lucky in the lottery of life and land an inheritance, you owe no federal tax. […]

This article is part of a limited-run newsletter. You can sign up here. This week’s Privacy Project newsletter is a pre-debate conversation with the former entrepreneur and current presidential candidate Andrew Yang. I wanted to speak to Yang since he’s the only candidate to address data privacy as a campaign policy issue. He’s a proponent […]

“Democrat Savages,” President Trump recently tweeted, are driving the impeachment against him. When he then named in particular two Jewish congressmen and four congresswomen of color — Jerry Nadler of New York, Adam Schiff of California and the quartet that includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York — the racist connotations of the “savage” slur buzzed. […]

Gail Collins: Bret, where should we start? Democratic debate? Impeachment? Mideast crisis? Rudy Giuliani? Actually, as a New Yorker I always figured that someday Rudy would do something even more outrageous than the time he called a news conference to announce he was separating from his wife before he told said spouse. But I did […]

The United States recently scored a historic victory when it overhauled a 145-year-old international organization, the Universal Postal Union, whose outdated policies were undermining American interests. This week, the White House will celebrate that deal with the union’s director general, Bishar Hussein, who will receive formal notice that the United States will remain in the […]

There is a hollow piety around “homelessness”. We have introduced a moral cordon sanitaire between us and them. As if dignity and respect hinge on owning property. When we speak of the “homeless” we need only consider buildings or lack of them. We don’t have to think about the person: frightened, forgotten, marginalised, invisible. If […]

At least 37 severely mentally ill children had to be admitted to adult psychiatric units so far this year, highlighting the ongoing scandal of inadequate care for these vulnerable young people. Their plight was again revealed in an inspection report on the unit in University Hospital Waterford yesterday, which showed how its struggling psychiatric service […]