So, abstention is almost 100 years old, Mary Lou McDonald has reminded us. The Sinn Féin leader’s comments cue even more dreary prospects of her party trying to hog the limelight in centenary celebrations of An Céad Dáil on January 21 next year. Ms McDonald’s comments came in a remarkable piece of radio yesterday as […]

To the Editor: Re “Racial Projection by the Census Is Making Demographers Uneasy” (front page, Nov. 23): It is past time for the Census Bureau, demographers and all Americans to use the words “origin” or “ancestry” in place of “race.” In the 2010 Census, Asians and Pacific Islanders had nine national origins and two “others” […]

Starting this fall, and well into the future, medical students at New York University will get free tuition. In a few years, shiny new facilities will welcome cancer patients in Atlanta and brain researchers at Stanford. The announcements about these developments credit generous philanthropists, but fail to mention who else is footing much of the […]

To the Editor: In “Surgery, Hormones, but Not Happiness” (Sunday Review, Nov. 25), Andrea Long Chu, writing about my July/August Atlantic cover story about gender-dysphoric youths, sums up my argument, ostensibly delivered to readers through a “dog whistle,” as follows: “Hormones and surgery can and should be withheld from patients who want them when such […]

This article is part of the Opinion Today newsletter. You can sign up here to receive the newsletter each weekday. Data is political. (Or, if you’re a stickler for traditional grammar rules, data are political.) The data that the United States government collects can ultimately influence federal policy. In the early 1980s, the Reagan administration […]

No matter how smart or educated you are, what you don’t know far surpasses anything you may know. Socrates taught us the virtue of recognizing our limitations. Wisdom, he said, requires possessing a type of humility manifested in an awareness of one’s own ignorance. Since then, the value of being aware of our ignorance has […]

So it is now all eyes on Theresa May, as the embattled British prime minister faces the very difficult task of selling an unpopular deal to her colleagues in the London parliament. EU leaders have finally sealed a deal on the UK divorce terms and endorsed a general declaration fixing a framework on negotiations on […]

Despite the evidence of mounting opposition to her deal, Theresa May has signed up to it without asking for a single change. So we have ended up with the worst possible outcome. Leave voters are outraged at the betrayal of Brexit and Remain voters are asking what on earth is the point of losing all […]

As abortion rights have come under increasing attack in the United States, commentators have held up self-administered abortion pills as a backup plan for a post-Roe world. They point to the millions of pregnant women worldwide who are using pills to self-manage abortion, citing them as an example of what reproductive health care might look […]

President Xi Jinping of China has visited the Philippines, the first state visit from China in 13 years. Mr. Xi’s trip immediately followed the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, a high-level meeting that President Trump declined to attend. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Twitter (@NYTopinion) and Instagram. Source: Read Full Article