Like a technology ‘Waiting for Godot’, the National Broadband Plan is coming. Not here yet but, like Godot’s arrival, it is imminent. Joining Vladimir and Estragon at the leafless tree, we wait. And wait. While we are waiting we can ruminate on the existing broadband service in rural Ireland. Please log in or register with […]

It’s easy to reach for metaphors to describe the war in Afghanistan — quagmire, money pit, a boulder that must be rolled up the Hindu Kush for eternity. John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, told The Times this month that a recent decision by the Trump administration to stop releasing important metrics […]

Happy Mother’s Day! Your mom is the best! Save, of course, for mine. And my wife. And, I rush to add, my mother-in-law. I can’t think of any group of people more selfless and loving than mothers. But this celebration of motherhood is also hypocritical: For all our rhetoric, we routinely fail mothers here in […]

Our planet has suffered five mass extinctions, the last of which occurred about 66 million years ago, when a giant asteroid believed to have landed near the Yucatán Peninsula set off a chain reaction that wiped out the dinosaurs and roughly three-quarters of the other species on earth. A few years ago, in a book […]

This week, Georgia became the fifth state to ban abortion at six weeks after a last menstrual period, before many people even realize they are pregnant. Its ban goes further than the others, criminalizing doctors and others who help induce abortions, as well as making those who are pregnant, potentially liable for murder if they […]

(Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc is nearing a deal to buy boutique wealth management firm United Capital Financial Partners Inc for several hundred million dollars, a source told Reuters. The deal would be Goldman’s biggest since the financial crisis and could be announced as soon as Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported. Goldman Sachs […]

Anna Sorokin, the German con artist who passed herself off as a wealthy heiress to swindle banks, hotels and even close friends as she lived out a high-society, Instagram-ready fantasy in New York, was sentenced Thursday to four to 12 years in prison. The 28-year-old, who had played with her own tabloid image during the […]

To the Editor: Re “For Students Who Owe on School Lunch Bills, Menu Is Much Smaller” (news article, May 9): For a school district to deprive schoolchildren of a proper nutritious lunch in the richest country in the world is a policy that is infuriating and hard to contemplate. Children should not be denied food […]

ANKARA, Turkey — Ekrem Imamoglu, the 48-year-old politician who defeated President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party in Istanbul’s recent mayoral election, is known for his gentle ways. But on Monday night, Mr. Imamoglu was furious. A large crowd gathered to hear him in his home district, Beylikduzu. His shirt sleeves rolled up, he jabbed his index […]

One of the first things Steven Hodgson noticed was Jordan Carbery’s slippers lying side-by-side on the path, as if he’d just stepped out of them. Then he spotted a bloody chunk of his scalp, and half his right ear. Mr. Hodgson, a provincial conservation officer whose duties include dealing with problem animals, was at the […]