Opinion

In many ways, President Trump is a one-trick Shetland pony: He talks a big game, like building a border wall or ending Covid, and then tries to distract Americans when…

There are some spectacles of US decadence and decline that almost seem too on the nose – the sort of orgies of vulgar provocation or fantastic lack of self-awareness that…

To the Editor: Re “Man Deported in Error Stays, 2 Leaders Vow” (front page, April 15): The horror of the Trump administration has nothing to do with the foolhardy tariffs…

Gender biases embedded in the way social media algorithms serve us content are well documented: algorithms have been found to amplify misogynistic content and unduly objectify women’s bodies, and are…

The world’s most famous university has done the right thing, and this is major news. It shouldn’t be. But less than three months into the second Trump administration, we are…

South Carolina executed Mikal Mahdi by firing squad on 11 April. Mahdi had been convicted and sentenced for the 2004 killing of an off-duty law enforcement officer. One month before…

The Trump administration talks a lot about stoking American business investment, an admirable and important goal. In March on social media, President Trump said that his first two months back…

Anyone tuning into the official election campaign launches over the weekend would be forgiven for thinking Australia was in the middle of an old school binary contest for supremacy played…

Recently, as I was getting into a car, the driver clocked my name and asked, “Like Musk?” I sighed and answered as I have now dozens of times: Yes, just…

‘Perpetuating humanity should be a cross-politics consensus,” read an article in the Atlantic last week, “but the left was mostly absent at a recent pronatalism conference.” It’s such a simple…