Aug. 11’s elections in Guatemala may have thrown a wrench into the Trump administration’s plans to convert Guatemala into a beachhead against migration from Central America. This is partly because President-elect Alejandro Giammattei is wavering over the “safe third country” agreement negotiated with the current president, Jimmy Morales, though he has fallen short of rejecting […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. The National Rifle Association still wields vast influence, even after a brutal feud that nearly unseated Wayne LaPierre, the group’s longtime leader. Previously undisclosed documents reveal a sweeping effort by top officials and lawyers to oust Mr. LaPierre, pictured […]

To the Editor: Re “Trump Accuses Jewish Democrats of ‘Disloyalty’” (front page, Aug. 21): As an American Jew, I find President Trump’s claim that I am disloyal for not supporting the Netanyahu government both absurd and offensive. It is laughable that the president, whose own behavior demonstrates disloyalty to the Constitution, his country, his wives […]

Good morning. We’re covering the uncertain fate of the Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh, an electric rickshaw revolution in India and the musical legacy of “Sesame Street." Broken promises for displaced Rohingya Muslims More than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar for Bangladesh two years ago, and governments from both countries have vowed to get them […]

By 2010, nine in 10 American homes were subscribed to a pay-television service. Many had also come to hate it. Whether delivered by satellite, cable, fiber-optics, radio tower or DVR, “traditional” television had become overrun with klaxonic advertisements and series aimed at the widest possible audiences while meeting the narrowest of advertiser whims. Most television […]

What should a parent do when a 2-year-old shrieks inconsolably because her string cheese wrapper tore “the wrong way”? Increasingly, the answer is “snap a photo, add a snarky caption and upload it to Instagram.” Publicly laughing at your toddler’s distress has somehow become not only acceptable but encouraged. Websites offer “best of” compilations, or […]

Ryanair passengers got good and bad news yesterday. The good news came from the High Court after it granted the airline an injunction to block a 48-hour strike that was due to start today. The bad news came from the High Court across the water later in the day as Ryanair lost a similar bid […]

Ryanair passengers got good and bad news yesterday. The good news came from the High Court after it granted the airline an injunction to block a 48-hour strike that was due to start today. The bad news came from the High Court across the water later in the day as Ryanair lost a similar bid […]

Do you blame God for Donald Trump? “I am the chosen one,” Trump announced on Wednesday. O.K., he was talking about fighting his trade war with China, not ascending into heaven. It was all a joke, sort of. But we’ve been so far down the megalomania road with this president that it would not be […]

The major debate tearing apart the American Jewish community on this particular Wednesday is whether or not the 45th president of the United States just accused them — us — of disloyalty to Israel and the Jewish people or of disloyalty to the Republican Party and the man who has remade it in his image. […]