In December 2016, Masayoshi Son, the billionaire owner of Sprint, paid a visit to Trump Tower to meet the president-elect. Afterward, the two announced that Mr. Son had spontaneously decided to invest $50 billion in the United States and create 50,000 jobs. There was an unspoken but widely understood quid pro quo. The Trump administration […]

(Reuters) – Online pet products retailer Chewy Inc raised the price range of its initial public offering on Wednesday, indicating strong investor demand and valuing the company at about $8.4 billion at the top end of the range. The company’s IPO of 41.6 million shares is expected to be priced in the range of $19 […]

On this year’s win-a-trip journey, Nick Kristof and I spent eight days visiting clinics and homes, exploring schools and fields, and pushing through mud and road blockades in Paraguay and Guatemala. We found desperation, hope and also a few lessons that I take with me. Here’s some of what I learned: Poor roads exacerbate inequality […]

The only way to solve the current impasse that the UK has managed to trap itself in is to go to the country a second time and ask the electorate to choose between WTO Brexit or Remain. A crash-out is not what all Brexiteers voted for in June 2016, they voted to exit the European […]

To the Editor: Re “Times Global Edition Is Ending Daily Political Cartoons” (Business Day, June 11): I value the values of The New York Times. And these are not only fully compatible with but also encourage political cartoons. Understanding a cartoon requires the same skills as to draw one: intelligence, criticism, sharpness of mind, humor, […]

Since the Arab uprisings of 2011, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have used their considerable resources to promote authoritarian governments run by military strongmen in the region. They helped crush Bahrain’s uprising, bankrolled a return to military dictatorship in Egypt, armed a rogue military leader in Libya and mismanaged a democratic transition in […]

By Tonya Ingram, Angelo Reid, Melissa Bein and Maddi Bertrand In the video Op-Ed above, people on the organ wait list argue that it’s time for the government to step in, provide oversight and require transparency in the organ recovery system. Research shows that organ procurement organizations (O.P.O.s), responsible for recovering organs, are inefficient and […]

Who will be the next Tory leader? Does it matter? Absolutely, for all sorts of reasons, but not least the fact that we expect too much of our leaders, the “chosen” ones. Look at the platform given to presidents and prime ministers across the world and how the media hangs on their every pronouncement as […]

Almost two decades ago, the beloved balladeer Ronnie Drew cited the rival Wolfe Tones ballad group amid the arms-decommissioning impasse in the Northern Ireland peace process. “The problem is that the Wolfe Tones won’t decommission their instruments,” the definitive Dubliners songster puckishly said. Yep, way back in the 1970s and the two ensuing decades, Drew’s […]

If the triumph of Trumpism is the most important recent development in American political history, then the second most important is the mobilization of liberal and left-wing voters to challenge the president’s authoritarian politics. This mobilization drove the Women’s March, where a day after Trump’s inauguration, hundreds of thousands came to Washington to protest against […]