This article is part of David Leonhardt’s newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. Gen. James Mattis, the former defense secretary, has so far said nothing about President Trump’s reckless decision to abandon the Kurds, longtime allies of the United States, to a threatened military assault by Turkey. Rex Tillerson, the […]

The arrival of superhuman machine intelligence will be the biggest event in human history. The world’s great powers are finally waking up to this fact, and the world’s largest corporations have known it for some time. But what they may not fully understand is that how A.I. evolves will determine whether this event is also […]

The Supreme Court’s 2019-20 term started on Monday, but one of the biggest cases, on expanding presidential power, isn’t on the docket — yet. It will probably be soon, though, because President Trump’s Justice Department and other plaintiffs took remarkable steps in September to get the Supreme Court to take cases presenting the issue squarely […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Shares in French glass bottle maker Verallia, which floated on the Paris stock exchange in the country’s biggest initial public offering this year, started trading on Tuesday at just above its offer price. The stock was trading at 27.13 euros by 0710 GMT, compared to its initial public offering price of 27 […]

The national editor of this newspaper last year asked the commissioner of the N.B.A. at a conference how it felt “to be the wokest professional sports league.” It was a fair description: While Colin Kaepernick has been unable to find a job in the N.F.L. after kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality, […]

MIAMI — “I’m using Mexico to protect our border.” Millions of Americans didn’t even notice this recent remark made by President Trump. But Mexicans certainly did. They thought Mr. Trump’s words were a blatant attack on their nation’s sovereignty. Still, while the president’s statement was arrogant and offensive, it’s actually true. Mr. Trump made his […]

NASHVILLE — From inside my air-conditioned house, the light through my windows looks the way October light is supposed to look — mild, quiet, entirely unlike the thin light of winter or the sparkling light of spring or the unrelenting light of summer. In normal years, October is a month for open windows in Middle […]

TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Next Insurance, a provider of digital insurance products to small U.S. businesses, said on Monday it raised $250 million in funding from German reinsurer Munich Re (MUVGn.DE). The funds will enable new product development and customer expansion initiatives. The investment round brings Next Insurance’s total funding to $381 million in just […]

You’ve heard it before but one more time with feeling: This is a huge week in the land of Brexit. I say that not because there will be a big breakthrough – but because somebody on either side might finally let go of the notion that there is going to be a moment of clarity. […]

We acted all responsible about it on the surface – all concerned faces. But secretly inside, we were thinking, ‘Nothing wrong with a bit of a storm, once nobody gets hurt.’ The Irish Times even ran a feature on their website: ‘Five notable Irish storms in recent years.’ We were having storm nostalgia. It’s a […]