Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ “Poetry is the attempt to understand fully what is real, what is present, what is imaginable, what is feelable, and how can I loosen the grip of what I already know to find some new, changed relationship,” the poet Jane Hirshfield tells me. Through poetry, she says, “I know […]

Protests in Israel spread to the military Hundreds of soldiers in Israel’s military reserves have signed letters expressing a reluctance to participate in nonessential duty or have already pulled out of training missions in response to a plan by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, to severely curtail the powers of Israel’s Supreme Court, officials […]

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist To President Emmanuel Macron of France, a suggestion: If, as a report in The Wall Street Journal suggests, you are convinced the war in Ukraine is destined […]

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist To President Emmanuel Macron of France, a suggestion: If, as a report in The Wall Street Journal suggests, you are convinced the war in Ukraine is destined […]

A major war in the Indo-Pacific is probably more likely now than at any time since the Second World War. The most probable spark is a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. President Xi Jinping of China has said unifying Taiwan with mainland China “must be achieved.” His Communist Party regime has become sufficiently strong — militarily, […]

NASHVILLE — I have a dim memory of being taken on a boat ride in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge when I was 4 or 5. I remember tea-dark water lapping at the boat, a white bird on stilt legs and a drifting log that startled me by turning into an alligator. That’s it. Years […]

To judge by several early polls, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has a decent shot of beating former President Donald Trump in the race to win the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. Some liberals have pronounced this terrible news — because, they say, a DeSantis presidency would be just as awful as, and perhaps even […]

Questions over U.S. spending in Ukraine Republicans in Congress sharply questioned senior Pentagon officials about the tens of billions of dollars in aid the U.S. has sent to Ukraine, casting fresh doubt on whether they would embrace future spending as Democrats pleaded for a cleareyed assessment of how much more money would be needed. Concerns […]

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Jamelle Bouie Opinion Columnist As part of his ongoing war on public education and so-called wokeness, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, wants to put the state’s colleges and universities under […]

To the Editor: Re “Journalists Can’t Discard Objectivity,” by Bret Stephens (column, Feb. 10): I agree with most of Mr. Stephens’s points, but I wish he hadn’t advocated “objectivity” as the way to journalistic reform. We journalists are human beings before we’re reporters and editors. We’re not recording machines, detached and disinterested. We have values, […]