vvjl Pulling Back From the Nuclear Brink
2025-01-06More from our inbox:The Debate Over Work VisasUnreliable PollsCruelty and ChristianityImage Credit...The New York Times To the Editor: “The President’s Arsenal” (editorial, Dec. 17) makes clear that nuclear war is the single greatest risk facing the
More from our inbox:A Police Failure in New OrleansMaking Polluters PayImage Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times To the Editor:tmt play Re “Why I Quit My Job as a Health Insurance Executive,” by Wendell Potter (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 20): Th
In September 2016 I went to a televised forum with the two leading presidential candidates and asked Donald Trump about military policy in Iraqmegapanalo, where I served with the Marine Corps several years earlier. He told me America should “take th
jilipark The Case for Hope for Palestinians
2025-01-06The current reality for Palestinians is nothing short of cataclysmic.jilipark More than 45,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to health authorities there. Ninety percent of its 2.3 million people have been uprooted and most civilia
President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for many of the top cabinet positions in his upcoming administration are unorthodox, to say the least. In some casesye7, it would be hard to think of people less qualified for their proposed jobs. Pete Hegseth as
gba777 The Real Case for D.E.I.
2025-01-06It matters that U.S. sanction policies were overseen by a man who grew up watching his parents send money through Western Union to relatives in Nigeria.gba777 That man, the deputy U.S. Treasury secretary, Wally Adeyemo, was born in the Nigerian city
kubiwin What’s the Matter With Chicago?
2025-01-06The word bankruptcy has been hanging over Chicago like a storm cloud about to burst. Mayor Brandon Johnson is the latest leader to attempt to close Chicago’s gaping fiscal gap: He proposed a $300 million property tax increase to partly fill Chicago’
dragon dream The 73 Percent Solution
2025-01-06Whenever someone agrees wholeheartedly with something I writedragon dream, I die a little inside. I know opinion columnists are supposed to be in the persuasion business, and that makes agreement the coin of the realm. But instant, knee-jerk agreeme
Ashley Adams and Madeline Shelton didn’t have much time to pick out their wedding outfits, but they were both happy with what they wore to their Dec. 17 “microwedding,” as they called it, in Beaverton, Ore. “We didn’t get to do the whole bridal-shop
80jili, Chicken Marbella, Hold the Chicken
2025-01-06Image Tejal Rao and Alexa Weibel’s beans Marbella.Credit...Dane Tashima for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. Hello! Tejal here80jili,, filling in for Sam today and Sunday. I didn’t grow up with “The Silver Palate Cookbook,” but w