Opinion

Jimmy Lai Must Be Freed

It is an honor to be alive at the same time as newspaperman and freedom fighter Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong pro-democracy icon who has been jailed by Chinese Community Party–affiliated authorities since ...
The House-passed National Defense Authorization Act is an antidote to the administration’s unserious National Security Strategy.
The U.S. government is willing to use the threat of violence to disrupt the flow of illicit oil-smuggling revenues that fuel the status quo in Venezuela.
The incantations of the word are intended to mislead the public into assuming the cartels’ terror ‘designation’ has solid legal footing.
Farmers have indeed had a terrible year. Crop prices have been depressed by the largest harvest on record, and farm bankruptcies have increased by nearly 50 percent since last year. But Trump’s ...
Shakespeare, Credit Hog Boy Bitten by a Lizard and other Baroque treasures shine at St. Petersburg’s Museum of Fine Arts. Last month I did a coast-to-coast swing in Florida from Palm Beach to Sarasota ...
I n mid-November, Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D., Wash.) approached the House podium to defend her own peculiar legislative move: a resolution rebuking fellow Democrat Jesús “Chuy” García ...
Opinion

Europe Is Delusional

Europe, in the year 2025, is what NPR would look like if it ran a continent.
A former tech executive whose company was acquired by Google, he has become a kind of perpetual whistleblower. He has argued that we are letting a handful of companies colonize our attention, devour ...
Hamnet is an Oscar-bait prestige picture aimed at Hollywood’s known prejudices, its period setting meant to convince viewers that all is good with a feminist bourgeois approach to the world — same as ...
Garcia was close to her 14-year-old son, Sewell, and felt comfortable having difficult conversations with him when his grades started to slip and his mental health began to decline. Desperate for a ...
The FTC was created under a Wilson-era statute that restricted presidents to firing its commissioners for cause, precisely for the purpose of insulating them from political pressure — code for making ...