Noella Binja talks to a nurse about the health of her daughter Nathalie Minani, who had been treated for monkeypox at the Kavumu hospital in Kabare territory, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Aug. 24, 2024. Easily preventable and treatable diseases like monkeypox, malaria, cholera and AIDS kill or disable millions. So what is to be done? (Arlette Bashizi/The New York Times) By LYDIA POLGREEN In 1980, when I was 4 years old, my family moved to Kenya. My father studied agricult

Poan Pan/The New York Times By DAVID FRENCH Matt DeMateo, CEO of New Life Centers of Chicagoland, described the impact of Operation Midway Blitz on the immigrant community he serves succinctly: “I’ve been doing this work for 25 years and I’ve never seen such fear.” When Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrived in force in Chicago, the immigrant community was plunged into a state of panic. Kids stayed home from school. Parents stayed home from work. Families were afraid to

Poan Pan/The New York Times By MICHELLE GOLDBERG For my giving column this year, I chose two groups that inspired me with their resistance to Donald Trump’s attacks on immigrants lacking permanent legal status. Both are doing heroic work, but they’re squeezed between an expanding need for their services and a political climate that threatens their resources. I first encountered Lindsay Toczylowski, president and CEO of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, in April, when I was

Donald Trump’s approval ratings are at the lowest point of this presidency, with the generic ballot threatening a midterm bloodbath for his party (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By ROSS DOUTHAT When Donald Trump’s approval ratings dropped sharply last April, the wound was essentially self-inflicted and the prescription relatively simple: Dial it back. Meaning smaller and less destructive tariffs, a retreat from brinkmanship with the Supreme Court, less random hacking away at go

In an undated image provided by Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, Sarah Josepha Hale. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA via The New York Times) By BRET STEPHENS Although the Thanksgiving story is typically associated with the harvest feast of Pilgrims and Wampanoags in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 404 years ago this fall, the national holiday Americans celebrate every fourth Thursday of No

A member of the Bolivarian Militia of Venezuela at a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Sept. 23, 2025. (Adriana Loureiro Fernandez/The New York Times) By MICHELLE GOLDBERG On Monday, the United States formally designated Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his allies in government as members of a foreign terrorist organization called Cartel de los Soles, a group that doesn’t exist. “There’s no such thing as the cartel,” Phil Gunson, a senior analyst at the International Crisis

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) after a news conference on the Epstein Files Transparency Act outside the Capitol in Washington, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025.(Damon Winter/The New York Times ) By MICHELLE COTTLE Today’s Republican Party is big on manliness and masculine virtues. The MAGA right in particular is forever obsessing over who is the biggest, the strongest, the most fearless among them. This is why, watching President Donald Trump’s fight to keep a lid on the Epstein fil

An attendee during a former President Donald Trump campaign rally at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pa., Oct. 19, 2024. (Damon Winter/The New York Times) By NICHOLAS KRISTOF What’s the secret formula that has made the United States the dominant superpower in the world today? I’d point to three fundamental ingredients, each of which is now being weakened. When I think of the historical legacies of our generation and of President Donald Trump, I wonder if they w