By Paul Krugman Last Friday’s employment report was really, really encouraging. It allayed the concerns of many economists, myself...

By Serge Schmemann When Angela Merkel declined to shut Germany’s doors in 2015 to asylum-seekers coming into Europe, the center-right...

By David French The most frustrating thing about the vice presidential debate wasn’t the outcome. JD Vance was exactly as good as I...

By David French Military defeats matter. Israel’s inexcusable complacency on Oct. 7, 2023, allowed Hamas, a terrorist force with a small...

By Thomas Friedman To understand why and how Israel’s devastating blow to Hezbollah is such a world-shaking threat to Iran, Russia, North...

By Ross Douthat Not all the policy questions left unanswered by Kamala Harris’ studiously vague presidential campaign are created equal....

By Nicholas Kristof My heart bleeds on this reporting trip as I see skeletal Sudanese children and interview survivors of massacres and...

By Bret Stephens In 2006, Hezbollah launched a guerrilla raid into Israel. It led to a 34-day war that devastated Lebanon, traumatized...

By Michelle Goldberg Here’s how rickety our constitutional system has become: The fate of the 2024 election could hang on the integrity...

By Gregorio Igartúa Special to The Star Puerto Rico has been gradually incorporated to be “like a state” since it was acquired in 1898 by...