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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

'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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Now that President Biden is pressuring Israel to back away from an all-out invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, some supporters of Israel feel betrayed. They ask: How [...]

First they killed the adults. ''Then they piled up the children and shot them,'' a witness told Human Rights Watch. ''They threw their bodies into the river.'' That's a scene [...]

Mr. Kristof is the author of a new memoir, ''Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life,'' from which this essay is adapted. More than three-quarters of Americans say the United States is [...]

For seven months, President Biden has https://abcnews.go.com/International/biden-embraces-netanyahu-steps-off-air-force-tel/story?id=104063578 to show more restraint in its war in Gaza and to allow more aid into the territory, and he has been mostly ignored. [...]

Israeli forces have entered Rafah, near the Egyptian border of the Gaza Strip, but we don’t yet fully understand whether this is the beginning of a full-scale ground invasion of [...]

An American surgeon who volunteered in Gaza sent me a photo that sears me with its glimpse of overwhelming grief: A woman mourns her young son. I've known the surgeon, [...]

Student protesters: I admire your empathy for Gazans, your concern for the world, your moral ambition to make a difference. But I worry about how peaceful protests have tipped into [...]

During the Darfur genocide and humanitarian crisis two decades ago, then-Senator Joe Biden passionately denounced then-President George W. Bush for failing to act decisively to ease suffering. Biden expressed outrage [...]

Soon after the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, the Israeli defense minister https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-siege-hamas.html to impose a “https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-siege-hamas.html” on Gaza: “no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel” would be allowed [...]

President Biden threatened on Thursday to condition aid to Israel on its treatment of civilians in Gaza. But it’s not clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will take [...]

With little notice, the United States may be crossing a historic milestone in family structure, one that may shape our health, wealth and happiness. Historically, most American adults were married [...]

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Alarms are blaring about artificial intelligence deepfakes that manipulate voters, like the robocall sounding like President Biden that went to New Hampshire households, or the fake video of Taylor Swift [...]

There’s much we don’t understand about Israel’s https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/18/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news with tanks and bulldozers on Monday. But the hospital assault raises further questions about Israel’s stated aim of eradicating Hamas in Gaza [...]

President Biden is sounding tougher toward Israel these days and showing more compassion for people starving in Gaza. ''There are a lot of innocent people who are in trouble and [...]