The concept of maternal guilt, once an expression of a moral code, has now been elevated to a science, with the news this week that the majority of mums don’t exercise because they feel guilty about spending time away from their kids. A Sport England study has reported that, outside of work, mothers are prioritising […]

Summer solstice, which falls today, is the longest day of the year. To be meteorologically accurate, summer solstice is the day with the greatest amount of daylight. Even though the weather is currently unsettled, we can expect more than 17 hours of daylight today. The next three months, leading up to mid-September, is the period […]

And then there were two – though most believe there is really only one. Boris Johnson has been the heir apparent for No 10 since the succession stakes opened to take over from Theresa May. It has to be hoped the debate about how many angels can dance on the head of a Withdrawal Agreement […]

Good morning. We’re covering Iran’s provocative move, President Xi Jinping’s second day in North Korea and Afghanistan’s campaign to help watermelon farmers. Iran shoots down a U.S. drone The strike on a high-altitude surveillance drone was the latest in a series of episodes that have escalated tensions between Iran and the U.S. Top congressional leaders […]

To the Editor: Re “Segregationists in Biden’s Past Set Off a Clash” (front page, June 20): The comment made by Joe Biden in which he referred to his collegiality with Senate colleagues early in his career could well have been made without specifically naming the egregiously segregationist Senators James O. Eastland and Herman E. Talmadge. […]

On Friday, June 7 President Trump announced that a deal had been reached with Mexico to address the problem of migration flows from Central America. The agreement means that Mr. Trump will indefinitely suspend what would have been an extraordinary imposition of escalating tariffs on Mexico, the United States’ number one trading partner in the […]

I had just rolled to the refrigerator to get my pain medication when it happened. The lid of the bottle must have been loose, because when I took it off the shelf it fell and a spray of pills bounced over the kitchen floor. The dog, alert to the sound of a possible snack, charged […]

Pete Buttigieg met his husband on a dating app called Hinge. And although that’s unique among presidential candidates, it’s not unique for Mr. Buttigieg’s generation — he’s 37 — or other members of the L.G.B.T.Q. community. In 2016, the Pew Research Center found that use of online dating apps among young adults had tripled in […]

The justices of the Supreme Court know how to keep out of trouble. That’s the takeaway from the order the court issued on Monday, sending back to the lower court a new case about another baker who wouldn’t bake a wedding cake. The case, Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, was a near-exact […]

This week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked his opinion on the paying of reparations to the descendants of slavery in America, and he came down solidly on the side of “no” and on the side of being intentionally obtuse. Here is his answer in full: “I don’t think reparations for something that happened […]