The early stages of the 2020 Democratic primary are rewriting the rules of how a candidate wins his or her party’s presidential nomination. Recent Democratic primary battles were all about the invisible primary, the yearlong period before the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary — when presidential candidates hired key staff members, seduced major […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning, We start today with the pending release of the Mueller report, North Korea’s weapons test and the climate protests in London. The Mueller report is due today For nearly two years, questions have swirled around the role Russia played in the 2016 U.S. […]

From the 1920s onward, the Zionist movement was split into two groups that put forward rival ideas of the Jewish state, one liberal, the other right wing. David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding father and its longest serving prime minister, was the leader of Labor Zionism, the liberal vision; Zeev Jabotinsky was the founder of Revisionist Zionism […]

To the Editor: Re “A More Perfect Civics Lesson? ‘Democracy’ Itself Is Up for Debate” (front page, April 8): In 30 years of teaching high school social studies — primarily American government, civics and history classes — I have learned that students can grapple with difficult ideas. In fact, they want to! Our country’s history […]

We got the news that the Yank visitors are definitely coming over in July. Two 18-year-olds, daughters of old expat friends, are over for a week on the final leg of their gap-year tour of Europe. A pair of sunny, athletic Californian gals who’ve never previously set foot outside the US, we’re already in a […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Private-equity backed Chrysaor is near a deal to buy U.S. group ConocoPhillips’ British North Sea oilfields, two sources close to the process said, a deal that would make it the basin’s biggest producer. Britain’s aging North Sea has undergone a major transformation in recent years as long-standing producers have sold assets to […]

Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | RadioPublic | Stitcher In this episode of “The Argument,” recorded on April 10 before an audience at TheTimesCenter in New York, the columnists talk immigration in the Trump era. Michelle Goldberg makes the case for shunning administration […]

Kilometer Zero: Notre-Dame de Paris, the place from which distance in France is measured, the reference of a people, the starting point and endpoint, the “epicenter,” as President Emmanuel Macron put it. That is why so many people, religious or not, were in tears as the great cathedral burned. A part of themselves, their bearings, […]

To the Editor: With a Ph.D. in psychology, Brent Staples of The New York Times, who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing on Monday, writes about race with the knowledge that most whites don’t live near African-Americans, seldom socialize with them and haven’t been taught an in-depth course on the adverse effects of race […]

Good morning, We start today with the latest from Paris, a preview of Indonesia’s presidential election and a disturbingly successful facial recognition experiment. France vows to rebuild Notre-Dame A day after a monstrous fire ravaged the roof of Paris’s famed cathedral, investigators are looking for the cause. Already, more than $600 million has been committed […]