HUEHUETENANGO, Guatemala — When Lesly Cano Gómez was 15, she wrote out her plan to migrate to America. “My dream is to go to the United States,” she wrote, followed by three discussion sections: “How Am I Going to Pay for It,” “Who’s Going to Take Me” and “Who’s Going to Meet Me When I […]

Members of Congress have several major decisions to make after the special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Whether to pursue an impeachment inquiry is the one that’s gotten the most attention — and reasonable people can disagree about that. But Mr. Mueller’s findings leave no room for debate about the […]

Charlie Warzel: It’s been a rough week for YouTube, even by tech backlash standards. Just this week the company has come under fire for creating a “digital playground” for pedophiles. Then, it attempted to purge extremist content from its site, only to accidentally delete a number of videos on Nazi history made by professors as […]

As an American Indian woman who recently moved to Canada, I’ve been saddened to see that the systemic and insidious racism towards Indigenous women and girls that is happening in the United States is also happening in Canada. My new provincial home, British Columbia, has the highest proportion of murdered and missing Indigenous women and […]

Old men, the seasons of their life drawing to a close, tussled with memories of their youth. All now in their 90s, for some a 100th birthday is an all-too-few heartbeats away. And so they remembered. They knew they would never recapture that time when they were young in quite the same way again. This […]

It always seems strange to anyone visiting Washington – particularly its prosperous, leafy northwest quadrant – that so much of the rest of the country should support the economic policies of Donald Trump. He inherited a long expansion of the economy, this summer the longest ever, but his trade policies have had the effect of […]

Break out the sparklers and brace yourself for the yugest Fourth of July ever. Independence Day is only a few weeks off, and the president has decided that what would really make this year’s festivities special is a big, beautiful jolt of rebranding, Trump-style. Apparently underwhelmed by the way the nation’s capital has celebrated in […]

The folklore of parenthood tells us that if we have children and invest the requisite time, money and love, we can avoid a life of loneliness in our old age. But having children is no guarantee. Census data show that approximately 85 percent of American women over the age of 50 have children. And yet […]

To the Editor: Re “Don’t Save Me From Cooking” (Sunday Review, June 2): David Tamarkin makes some important points about the disadvantages of subscribing to home delivery food services rather than preparing food at home. Notwithstanding the questionable time savings, high cost and negative environmental impact, missed is the opportunity to model life skills for […]

There is a lot of debate these days about whether the United States owes its African-American citizens reparations for slavery. It does. But there is a far bigger bill that the United States and Europe have run up: what they owe to other countries for their colonial adventures, for the wars they imposed on them, […]