This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it Tuesdays and Thursdays. What just happened: Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed a law Monday allowing college athletes to strike endorsement deals, a move that could upend the business model of college sports that denies student athletes the ability […]

The last time I saw my friend Jamal Khashoggi was in September 2017, when he was settling into his self-imposed exile in the United States. We argued about politics over dinner at a steak house in Washington. We cracked jokes about my struggle with a small piece of steak and his ease at devouring a […]

They say the first item on the agenda of any new political party is to manage the split. In a Pythonesque move, Paul Murphy has left the Judean People’s Front in order to set up the People’s Front of Judea. The new socialist party is called Rise, which is a relief, as the acronym will […]

Tuesday is 35 years since I walked into The New York Times for my first day of work. It was my first real job, initially covering international business and economics, and to mark the anniversary I’ve gone back and dug up some of the pieces over the decades that were particularly meaningful to me. The […]

To the Editor: Re “The Return to Rural America,” by Sarah Smarsh (Op-Ed, Sept. 19): Five years ago, after my husband died, I gave up my apartment in Queens and moved to our summer retreat in the Thousand Islands, in upstate New York close to the Canadian border. As a liberal Democrat living in Trump […]

An act of kindness by two Denny’s employees proves Las Vegas isn’t just a city for sinning. Over the weekend, Cady Danell was enjoying a meal with her fiancé after wrapping up their bachelor and bachelorette parties. When the couple walked into the Denny’s on South Las Vegas Boulevard, they saw an employee at the […]

The whistleblower at the heart of the Ukraine controversy said White House officials ordered information about President Donald Trump’s phone call with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to be removed from the classified server typically used to store such information – and placed on a hyper- secure “code word” server. Such protections are typically reserved for material […]

I always loved history at school. Battles, invasions, pillage and assassinations were much more to my taste than Pythagoras’s Theorem with the sum of a whatsit being equal to the area of some other yoke. Geometry went right over my head or, perhaps more accurately, in one ear and out the other with little in […]

On Sept. 24, 2015, Geoffrey Pyatt, then the American ambassador to Ukraine, spoke in Odessa about the scourge of corruption. It was about a year and a half after what is sometimes called the Revolution of Dignity, when Ukrainians overthrew the kleptocratic, Russian-aligned regime of Viktor Yanukovych. The country was trying to move in a […]

As outlandish and extreme as it is, warning of a looming civil war is a familiar talking point across the pro-Trump media. It’s part of a growing tradition of right-wing fearmongering — what Vox’s Dylan Matthews referred to last year as “apocalypse punditry” — that moves easily from the online fever swamps to the Oval […]