Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Farhad Manjoo Opinion Columnist About six months ago, Elon Musk bought your favorite neighborhood bar. Then he fired veteran bouncers and bartenders, tried to stiff the landlord and at least one […]

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist TAIPEI, Taiwan — I just returned from visiting China for the first time since Covid struck. Being back in Beijing was a reminder of my first rule […]

An arrest in the U.S. leak case Federal investigators in the U.S. arrested a 21-year-old man who they believe is linked to leaked classified intelligence documents that have upended relations with American allies and exposed weaknesses in the Ukrainian military. The Times identified the man as Jack Teixeira, a member of the intelligence wing of the […]

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Ukraine’s bloody stand for Bakhmut For 10 months, Russian and Ukrainian forces have battled for Bakhmut, a 16-square-mile city that has been the site of some of the fiercest urban combat in Europe since World War II. Ukrainian forces are now defending a shrinking half-circle of ruins that is only about 20 blocks wide and […]

We have long known about the F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover’s animus toward the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hoover built an extensive apparatus of surveillance and disruption designed to destroy King and to drive a wedge between King and President Lyndon Johnson. But historians, journalists and contemporary political leaders have largely portrayed Hoover […]

Justin Jones is back in the Tennessee House. Just four days after Mr. Jones, a young Democratic lawmaker from Nashville, was expelled from office by Republican legislators for leading a gun-safety demonstration from the chamber floor, the Nashville Metropolitan Council restored him to his seat until a special election is held, an election in which […]

International anger over military documents leak Little new information has emerged about a major leak of dozens of classified military and intelligence documents. But senior Biden administration officials yesterday sought to calm anger in foreign capitals over the documents, noting that they had spoken to their Ukrainian counterparts as well as other unidentified American allies. […]

Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ In October, the White House released a 70-plus-page document called the “Blueprint for an A.I. Bill of Rights.” The document’s ambition was sweeping. It called for the right for individuals to “opt out” from automated systems in favor of human ones, the right to a clear explanation as to […]

Evan Gershkovich has devoted his career to the power of bearing witness through on-the-ground reporting. When Gershkovich was in his mid-20s in 2017, he decided to move to Russia — and quit a job as a news assistant at The New York Times — so that he could report on the country where his parents […]