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To the Editor: Re “Why We Need a Second Great Migration” (column, Jan. 10): As a white progressive Georgian, I support Charles M. Blow’s proposal that Black Americans undertake a reverse migration and return to the South. I grew up in Mississippi during the Jim […]
Trump faces a Senate trial. By Melina Delkic Good morning. We’re covering the next steps in President Trump’s proceedings, the cushy conditions of a Huawei executive’s detention in Canada and what tracking animal movement could mean for science. Trump faces trial after a bipartisan impeachment […]
Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. Companies are halting donations to Congress members who backed overturning the election result. Large corporations and their lobbyists usually try to steer clear of messy political fights. Companies prefer to work behind the […]
With President Rodrigo Duterte entering his lame-duck year in office, the fate of a key military pact between the Philippines and the United States will be up to whoever succeeds him in May next year. This pact, known as the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), was […]
Op-Docs In a small town in Kentucky, an immense replica of Noah’s ark looms over the countryside. transcript Ark of the Apocalypse In a small town in Kentucky, an immense replica of Noah’s ark looms over the countryside. Go ahead and read? This is from […]
In Georgia’s Senate runoff elections, Republicans are banking on a strategy that generations of segregationist politicians perfected: Array the voters in rural counties, overwhelmingly white and conservative, against those in the Atlanta area. From the Jim Crow era to our day, the antagonism between rural […]
One trick that great powers competing with other large opponents can resort to is to peel off their rival’s key allies; the gambit tends to isolate the competitor and offers a whole host of other strategic opportunities. That is what Dr Henry Kissinger did almost […]
Bret Stephens: Belated happy new year, Gail. I was hoping we could celebrate the arrival of 2021 by never mentioning Donald Trump’s name again, except maybe as a punchline to jokes involving foul-mouthed parrots. But then our friends at The Washington Post broke the news […]
I barely even feel the needle. It is over so quickly that I begin to take it all in only afterward, as I claim a seat in the waiting area. There are a handful of us there, each of us newly vaccinated and waiting the […]
The next few months will be hell in terms of politics, epidemiology and economics. But at some point in 2021 things will start getting better. And there’s good reason to believe that once the good news starts, the improvement in our condition will be much […]