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One of the most dangerous things a woman can do in much of the world is become pregnant, and the risks caught up with a Kenyan named Alice Wanjiru a [...]

President Biden has about six weeks left in office, and with Republicans set to control both houses of Congress and the presidency next year, his final acts may be more [...]

President Biden has about six weeks left in office, and with Republicans set to control both houses of Congress and the presidency next year, his final acts may be more [...]

Listen to and follow ‘The Opinions’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube | iHeartRadio It’s Thanksgiving week, and the columnist Nicholas Kristof wants you to consider skipping the [...]

As it turns out, it’s possible to make peace in the Middle East as well as war: President Biden has announced that both Israel and Lebanon have https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/26/world/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-cease-fire, and Israel’s [...]

This column is part of Times Opinion's 2024 Giving Guide. Read more about the guide in a note from Times Opinion's editor, Kathleen Kingsbury. Forget the necktie that will sit [...]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/opinion/charity-holiday-gift-giving-guide.html Forget the necktie that will sit in Dad’s closet or the perfume that your sister Sue will soon regift, for I have some better ideas. This is my annual [...]

The arrest warrant https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/21/world/israel-netanyahu-hamas-gaza by the International Criminal Court on Thursday for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will reverberate through that country, but it also raises questions for the [...]

The other day I was supposed to visit a friend who had been released from prison. He had to cancel to rescue his sister, who is using drugs again. Another [...]

So what do we do now? For those who think as I do, the election feels devastating. My country has elected a felon whose former top aides have described him [...]

So what do we do now? For those who think as I do, the election feels devastating. My country has elected a felon whose former top aides have described him [...]

With this presidential election seemingly a jump ball, what might American democracy and the world look like if Donald Trump is again elected president? I think it's hyperbole to suggest, [...]

If Donald Trump is elected president on Tuesday, one factor may be anger at Biden administration policies in the Middle East. Some Arab Americans, including those in swing states like [...]

What should we think as Donald Trump urges people to vote in January, confuses places and names, fumbles for words, simplifies his speech patterns, describes recent experiences that did not [...]

First, a quiz: 1. What's a reason rooted in biology that young Americans today have higher I.Q.s on average than those of us who grew up in the 1970s or [...]

The question now is: Can Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel be pressured to declare victory and end the war in Gaza? Netanyahu now can take the best kind of [...]

After my reporting trip to the Chad-Sudan border and columns about the murder, rape and starvation that have devastated Sudan, readers wrote in with many thoughtful comments and questions. Here's [...]

When Israel defied America's appeals for restraint by invading Lebanon a few days ago, a reporter asked President Biden if he was comfortable with what had unfolded. ''I'm comfortable with [...]

When Israel defied America’s appeals for restraint by invading Lebanon a few days ago, a reporter asked President Biden if he was comfortable with what had unfolded. “I’m comfortable with [...]

Side by side with the worst of humanity, you regularly encounter the best. And so it was that while covering murder, rape and starvation in Sudan, I was awed by [...]

Side by side with the worst of humanity, you regularly encounter the best. And so it was that while covering murder, rape and starvation in Sudan, I was awed by [...]

My heart bleeds on this reporting trip as I see skeletal Sudanese children and interview survivors of massacres and mass rape targeting Black African ethnic groups. I keep thinking: It [...]

Sudanese refugees who wade across a stream to enter Chad mostly say they leave because of starvation at home. But in tearful whispers, they add that something else is also [...]

When an Arab militia rampaged through Maryam Suleiman's village in the Darfur region of Sudan last year and lined up men and boys to massacre, the gunmen were blunt about [...]

Our planet has just endured its hottest summer on record, with 2024 on track likewise to become the hottest year since recordkeeping began. We see the impact of this heating [...]

Some folks think the best way to travel is by private jet. Or yacht. My choice: by foot. Some think that the best thing about America is its wealth, technology [...]

Some of the best advice Democrats have received recently came from Bill Clinton in his speech at the Democratic National Convention. First, he warned against hubris: ''We've seen more than [...]

For liberals like me, Europe has often seemed a charmed place with sound lessons for America. Europe softened the harshest edges of capitalism, provided safety nets and in important ways [...]

In attacking Democrats and Kamala Harris, Republicans have been making a legitimate point: One of our major political parties has worked to undermine America's families. The problem? While neither party [...]

'Tis the season for vacations, so let me make my pitch that the best travel is not lounging at a beach resort but rather journeying into a different world. We [...]

Over the past couple of decades, dogs have evolved into humans. Well, at least that's how we think of them now. Some 97 percent of U.S. pet owners consider dogs [...]

Here's a bargain of the most horrifying kind: For less than $100,000, it may now be possible to use artificial intelligence to develop a virus that could kill millions of [...]

In an instant, President Biden has reshaped America. By bowing out of the presidential race, he appears to have increased the odds that Democrats can hold on to the White [...]

Since President Biden's disastrous debate performance in June, the columnist Nicholas Kristof has noticed that Biden's language has sounded a lot like his opponent's: criticizing the press, questioning the polls, […]

Before I get to President Biden, let me tell you about my love for a different presidential candidate. In 1972, when I was 13 years old, I knocked on doors [...]

In her concession speech to President-elect Donald Trump in November 2016, Hillary Clinton declared, ''We have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but some day someone will [...]

The calls for President Biden to withdraw from the presidential race have mostly been made lovingly, in https://x.com/NickKristof/status/1806508213208248501 of deep respect. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/opinion/biden-france-uk-elections.html have known and https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/opinion/joe-biden-drop-out.html for decades, and we [...]

There's a dollop of good news for Democrats from the British and French elections, but it's bad news for President Biden. The basic lesson is that liberals can win elections […]

A sign at the entrance to the Nassar family farm reads: 'We refuse to be enemies.' In a land torn apart by conflict, hatred and violence, this farm is an […]

Gretchen Whitmer, Kamala Harris, President Biden -- who is best positioned to beat Donald Trump in November? With President Biden's candidacy in question, we asked six New York Times Opinion […]

In responding to the war in Gaza for more than eight months, President Biden has often seemed weak -- upset over the humanitarian toll but not acting firmly to reduce [...]

The West Bank village of Qusra was smoldering as I arrived. Clouds of black smoke swirled from a field where rampaging Israeli settlers had lit it on fire, while also [...]

The stakes in this year's presidential election are the greatest in my lifetime. So as a way to frame the choice before voters, I offer these foreign policy questions for [...]

A few months ago, President Biden seemed so fed up as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel ignored his calls for restraint in Gaza that he finally sounded tough. In [...]

As Democrats make their case to voters around the country this fall, one challenge is that some of the bluest parts of the country -- cities on the West Coast [...]

Many of us liberals now find ourselves in an awkward spot on immigration. For years we have denounced draconian steps by Republicans to bar desperate migrants. But President Biden has [...]

I've been on a book tour for the last few weeks, speaking around the country, and one of the questions I get asked most often isn't about my book at [...]

I wrote a column recently lamenting the decline in marriage rates, noting that a record half of American adults are now unmarried. As a long-married romantic myself, steeped in statistics [...]

In a speech in Warsaw two years ago, President Biden declared that ''the great battle for freedom'' is one ''between a rules-based order and one governed by brute force.'' Now [...]

The decision on Monday by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/world/middleeast/icc-hamas-netanyahu.html for leaders of Hamas and Israel probably will not result in anyone being put on trial [...]