By NICHOLAS KRISTOF When world leaders gather in New York this month for the United Nations General Assembly, I expect them to studiously ignore the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, the horror in Sudan that both the Biden and Trump administrations termed a genocide. President Donald Trump has set the tone by cutting aid there. What does the crisis look like on the ground? Let me tell you about a very bright 13-year-old girl who asked not to be named, because then she might

Peter Thiel in Manhattan on Jan. 7, 2016. When Thiel said the young activist Greta Thunberg represented the spirit of the Antichrist, it “was more than just a hyperbolic slur,” Times columnist Michelle Goldberg writes. “Thiel was expressing a Promethean theology, one that sanctifies technology and expansion.” (Andrew White/The New York Times) By MICHELLE GOLDBERG In a series of private speeches last year, Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and Silicon Valley thought l

President Donald Trump has a long record of threatening rather than protecting the integrity of American elections. Now he is menacing the midterms, with an executive order that would throw voting by mail into chaos if it went into effect. (Photo illustration by Tam Stockton/The New York Times) By THE EDITORIAL BOARD President Donald Trump has a long record of threatening rather than protecting the integrity of American elections. At his worst, he sought to overturn the 2020

By GREGORIO IGARTÚA DE LA ROSA Special to The STAR The legal status of our political relationship within the American nation has remained at a standstill since 1952, when the Constitution of Puerto Rico was adopted, a necessary step toward statehood and equality as American citizens. After all, from what other perspective should the cause of this political stalemate be analyzed, if not from the standpoint of who we are -- 3.2 million American citizens who wish to retain our c

By MICHELLE GOLDBERG What a wretched time for Gloria Steinem to die. Had Steinem, an icon of second-wave feminism, left us a decade ago, the arc of her life would have seemed one of unequivocal triumph. Steinem began her career at a time when abortion was illegal and male domination largely unquestioned. Moving to New York in 1960, she had a hard time finding an apartment on her own: “Landlords felt single women were not financially responsible, and if you could earn enough,

By DAVID FRENCH It is difficult to fathom the damage President Donald Trump is doing to America’s national security. He is making our nation more vulnerable than it has been at any time since the cloudiest days of the Cold War. Trump administration scandals come with such speed and frequency that it’s easy to get lost in the weeds. One minute you’re reading about potential war crimes in the Caribbean. The next moment there’s a news alert about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegset

Many Americans are experiencing more extremely hot days, especially in the South and Midwest. Map shows change in number of over-90F days since 1995. By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Summer has long been known for its spirit of adventure and reprieve, found in fire hydrants and backyard sprinklers, campsites and lemonade stands. It was the time of year when the outdoors could be most fearlessly embraced. Now summer has a new set of fixtures: face masks, air purifiers and public health

A broadcast of President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025. (Damon Winter/The New York Times) By JAMELLE BOUIE Can President Donald Trump distinguish truth from fiction? Does he know what is real and what is the product of a computer program? One wants to believe that the president of the United States, cloaked in immense power, would understand the difference between reality and fantasy. One would hope, given the terrible stakes of his de

Visitors outside of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, June 27, 2026. Facing an intense backlash, the influential fashion designer John Galliano has taken the unprecedented step of withdrawing from a planned exhibition in his honor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Ryan Murphy/The New York Times) By BRET STEPHENS In principle, and as often as possible in practice, it’s best to separate judgments about an artist from judgments about the art. Roald Dahl was an unabas

By ROSS DOUTHAT When Paul Ehrlich, noted overpopulation doom-monger, passed away last winter, his death inspired online controversialist Richard Hanania to go back and read some of Ehrlich’s original writings on the “population bomb.” What Hanania discovered, he wrote, was that Ehrlich was actually worse than the quotes and clips often plucked by his critics would suggest. He was profoundly hostile to human progress, “misanthropic” at every turn, always ready with “blueprints