In the confusion that followed Wednesday’s desecration of the Capitol, it was widely reported that the last time the building was stormed was in 1814. That overlooked a desperate day […]
Opinion | With One Presidential Phone Call, QAnon Shows Its Power
Forgive me for failing, at first, to find much news in the news that President Trump had pressured officials in Georgia to overturn the election results. That he had been […]
Opinion | Evoking the Grandeur of the Penn Station of Yore
More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “Penn Station Gets New Life Aboveground” (front page, Dec. 31): Let us celebrate the new Moynihan Train Hall while keeping our eyes […]
Opinion | My Joe Biden Story
As Ben Smith, the media columnist for The Times, suggested a few weeks ago, pretty much every journalist who passed through Washington, D.C., during the past half century knows President-elect […]
Your Thursday Briefing
China says one of its vaccines is 79 percent effective. By Melina Delkic Good morning. We’re covering China’s rollout of vaccines, prison sentences for Hong Kong protesters, and what New […]
Opinion | In a Miserable Year, I Had the Dodgers and a Stray Dog
One of the unqualified bright spots of 2020 was the Dodgers winning the World Series after a 32-year drought. Weeks before that, the Lakers took the world championship and made […]
Opinion | Praying Together on Zoom: Yes, God Is Present
To the Editor: Re “You Can’t Meet God Over Zoom,” by Esau McCaulley (Op-Ed, Dec. 26): As the pastor of a small Lutheran congregation, I appreciated Professor McCaulley’s powerful and […]
Opinion | Mark Shields Gave Us the Best of Commentary
To the Editor: Thank you, David Brooks, for your lovely tribute to Mark Shields on the occasion of his retirement as a regular analyst on “PBS NewsHour” (“It’s a Pleasure […]
The day a stranger approached my friend at a traffic light: How safe are S'pore’s public spaces for women?
I watched in dismay as airport security tossed my tiny canister of pepper spray into the trash. Although I had never needed to use it, the spray had been a […]
Opinion | The Haunting of Tulsa, Okla.
The Tulsa, Okla., police department set the stage for mass murder in the spring of 1921 when it deputized members of a mob that invaded and destroyed the prosperous Black […]