JERUSALEM — When will the “deal of the century,” as President Trump has called his forthcoming plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace, finally be unveiled? Certainly not before April 9, when Israel holds its next election. But how soon after? “In less than 20 years,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noncommittally told a congressional committee recently. In […]

To the Editor: Re “High School Doesn’t Have to Be Boring” (Sunday Review, March 31): Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine illuminate a simple yet sad truth about most American high schools. When we merely ask our students to be passive recipients of test-driven content, we should expect boredom as the dominant result. On the other […]

Leo Varadkar is a man who revels in media attention, so he must have been delighted last week to make headlines everywhere from London’s Evening Standard to the South China Morning Post. He was particularly big news in Australia, because the story which grabbed the world’s attention was the gushing fan letter which the Taoiseach […]

A turning point for some of us was when Nick Boles quit the Conservatives last Monday night after his ‘Norway’ Brexit plan was defeated again. His voice cracking with emotion, he said: “I have given everything in an attempt to find a compromise that can take this country out of the European Union, while maintaining […]

(Reuters) – OUE Commercial Real Estate Investment Trust and OUE Hospitality Trust are in discussions to merge in a cash and stock deal, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people with knowledge of the deal. OUE Commercial will offer to buy OUE Hospitality to create a single entity that will remain listed on […]

Many of the people I admire lead lives that have a two-mountain shape. They got out of school, began their career, started a family and identified the mountain they thought they were meant to climb — I’m going to be an entrepreneur, a doctor, a cop. They did the things society encourages us to do, […]

Calling all dreamers, all procrastinators, all people who’ve aged out of wunderkind status (happy 27th birthday, by the way): Stop doing nothing to make your hopes come true and start a vision board! A vision board is a collection of inspiring images, quotes and objects that turns your most important goals into accomplishments. Sound too […]

London — There is a giant mirror in my hometown in Ireland. It covers one side of a building that you must walk past to get from my mother’s house to the town center. When I was a teenager, I learned to take a different route. The mirror was always sparkling clean, a burst of […]

To the Editor: Re “Affirmative Action at 50: Successes and Regrets” (front page, March 31): I appreciate Anemona Hartocollis’s report on affirmative action at Columbia University, specifically the divergent outcomes of black students who were enrolled in 1969. Unfortunately, the reasons provided for the divergent outcomes could be seen as another way to blame some […]

On Wednesday, the Justice Department put Alabama on notice over the state’s “flagrant disregard” for the constitutional rights of inmates in its prisons. The department said that conditions in the state’s prisons are among the nation’s very worst. “After carefully reviewing the evidence,” department officials wrote in a letter addressed to Gov. Kay Ivey, “we […]