I served as an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, and I have been frequently struck by the similarities between the investigations of Presidents Nixon and Trump. Both involved property theft from the Democratic National Committee and resulted in the criminal convictions of individuals close to the president. Presidents Nixon and Trump […]

To the Editor: Re “Can Joe Biden Be Forgiven?,” by Lucy Flores (Op-Ed, April 30): I believe that the reason Mr. Biden is not doing a satisfying apology to either Anita Hill or Ms. Flores (and anyone else he was too physical with) is that he is still hoping to appeal to President Trump’s male […]

On Wednesday, when Attorney General William Barr testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the Mueller report, he addressed lawmakers more as if he were a member of President Trump’s legal team than as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. Barr framed Trump’s actions as fully justifiable, even arguing that if the president feels an […]

Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | RadioPublic | Stitcher What’s the best way to tackle America’s crisis of mass incarceration? This week on “The Argument,” Michelle Goldberg interviews Emily Bazelon, a staff writer at The Times Magazine, about her latest book, “Charged: The […]

How often do I get to have a mother and daughter date night? Not often. True, you will see us together doing perfunctory things like the grocery shopping, walking the dog and grabbing a quick dinner together. However, I cannot remember the last time we plotted a night in our diary to go out, get […]

We will probably never know for sure the exact reasons why a jury of six men and six women decided to convict farmer Pat Quirke of the murder of his supposed love rival Bobby Ryan. The law is strict when it comes to deliberations in the jury room. They simply cannot be disclosed. It is […]

In 2010, I received an email from an ecstatic employee at a start-up called UberCab. “What our tiny company is doing for San Francisco right now is huge,” he told me. The employee’s joy was contagious. Back then, as a naïve, baby tech pundit, I was prone to spinning out elaborate visions of tech-abetted progress, […]

OAKLAND, Calif. — We have some good news that sounds like bad news: Your gas stove has to go. We know how you’ll feel reading those words. We used to love cooking with gas, too. But if our society is going to solve the climate crisis, one of the things we must do is stop […]

Jon Snow was looking for the queen. There had been a lot of bloodshed. I asked him about the day he’d discovered all the corpses. “That day was horrible,” he said. “There was sadness.” This wasn’t “Game of Thrones.” We were wearing bee suits, Professor Snow and I, standing on the roof of Barnard Hall, […]

Law enforcement officers on the doorstep threatening to “come back with a warrant” is a cliché of police procedural dramas. Things are much less dramatic in real life: The officers ask if they can take a look around, and the civilians say yes without putting up a fight. A key question in so-called “consent -search” […]