The small South American nation of Uruguay will hold elections on Sunday to choose a new president at a time when it is a model of political and economic stability in Latin America. The 3.4 million people who make up Uruguay’s population may disagree on key issues, but civility and …
Read More »DeSantis Is Going All Out to Defeat Florida’s Abortion Ballot Question
The campaign against the most contentious ballot question in Florida this year — an abortion-rights measure known as Amendment 4 — was relatively quiet until recently. But on its side all along was the most powerful figure in Florida politics: Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has gone all in on leveraging …
Read More »Crowds at the Row’s Sample Sale Beg a Question: Can It Stay Cool?
What about the Row makes its take on a simple sweater that much better than a version by, say, the Gap? The Row, a luxury label founded in 2006 by Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, has become widely recognized — revered, even, by certain fashion writers — for its interpretations …
Read More »Top Law Firms Shrink From the Heat of the Mideast Conflict
Late in January, Katherine Franke, a prominent Columbia Law School professor and active supporter of the Palestinian cause, appeared on television to talk about a rally demanding divestment from Israel that had taken place on the steps of Low Library a few days before. What marked this protest from the …
Read More »Opinion | How Donald Trump Jr. Conquered the Republican Party
In 2022, shortly before the midterm elections and the unofficial start of the 2024 presidential campaign, the conservative activist Christopher Rufo traveled to Maine to appear on Tucker Carlson’s Fox Nation streaming talk show. For the previous two years, he was a frequent guest of Mr. Carlson’s. He usually did …
Read More »Opinion | Our Robot Stories Haven’t Prepared Us for A.I.
This week, my newsroom colleague Kevin Roose chronicled the heartbreaking story of Sewell Setzer III, a Florida teenager who took his own life — and whose mother blames Character.AI, a role-playing app where users interact with artificial intelligence chatbots, for his retreat from normal social life and then reality itself. …
Read More »Opinion | For College Students, Giving Up on Books Is a Perfectly Sensible Choice
In 2011, I taught a college class on the meaning and value of work. It was a general-education class, the sort that students say they have to “get out of the way” before they move on to their major courses. Few of the students were avid readers, and many held …
Read More »Why Boeing Workers Rejected a New Contract: Retirement Benefits
A decade ago, Boeing stopped offering the gold standard of pension plans — one that pays out guaranteed sums to retirees. The loss of the pension still angers many members of the company’s largest union. On Wednesday, the union’s members voted by a large margin to reject an improved contract …
Read More »By Ferry or Floatplane, 4 Enchanting Coastal Getaways From Vancouver
Canada’s westernmost province, British Columbia, is studded with 17,000 miles of coastline and 40,000 islands dispersed across its waters, many of them enchanting destinations on their own. Vancouver, the largest city of the province, serves as a gateway to the region, which is home to a host of marine life …
Read More »Mozambique’s Governing Party Candidate Wins Disputed Presidential Election
Daniel Chapo was declared the winner of Mozambique’s presidential election on Thursday after a process marred by violence and widespread accusations that his party, Frelimo, which has run the country for nearly five decades, committed fraud. The country’s electoral commission announced that Mr. Chapo won with nearly 71 percent of …
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