How can this Bold Idea to Raise The Birthrate not mention France?

 

A Bold Idea to Raise the Birthrate: Make Parenting Less Torturous

By Anna Louie Sussman

Ms. Sussman writes about gender, economics and reproduction. She is working on a book about family building in an age of uncertainty.

Far from celebrating Gay Rights victory, defending the gains, staying vigilant, but winding down as a movement that had achieved its core objectives — including the end of H.I.V. in the United States as an unstoppable plague — gay and lesbian rights groups did the opposite. Swayed by the broader liberal shift to the “social justice” left, they radicalized.

 

How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way

By Andrew Sullivan

Mr. Sullivan, an early advocate for gay marriage, writes The Weekly Dish on Substack.

Because of the crisis of the national debt I predict a disconnect over home mortgage rates which will stay high as the Fed lowers the discount rate.

 

The National Debt Is Already Causing Bigger Problems Than People Realize

By The New York Times Editorial Board

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom.

On generous assumptions, Tesla’s core EV business, generating 75% of gross profit but with falling sales, might be worth roughly $50 per share, only 15% of the current price. 1Much of the remainder relates to expectations around self driving. RBC Capital, for example, ascribes 59% of its price target, or $181 per share, to robotaxis and a further $53 to monetizing Full Self Driving technology. Combined, that is a cool $815 billion based on double-digit multiples ascribed to modeled revenue — not earnings — 10 to 15 years from now because, after all, it relates to businesses that barely make money today.

 

Tesla’s $800 Billion Robotaxi Dream Is Finally Facing Reality

By Liam Denning

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

Europe should drop the F-35 and support their own fighter programs but also look at how Ukraine is showing that unmanned drones are the future

 

European Allies Wary of Buying American as They Plan Defense Buildup

I’ll say it again: I detest Bibi and Trump. I worry that Team Trump lacks the attention span and competence to handle a complicated international crisis. But it would be a catastrophe if those of us who oppose Netanyahu and Trump concluded that we have to be against everything they are for. That would mean withdrawing from the world and letting the wolves run free.

I Detest Netanyahu, but on Some Things He’s Actually Right

By David Brooks

Opinion Columnist

At the NATO summit this week, there will be heated debates about all that the alliance has not accomplished since the start of the war in Ukraine. Ukrainians are still suffering. Russia is still taking territory. China, Iran and North Korea are still abetting the Russian war effort. The Russian economy is still muddling through; there is no visible antiwar movement in Russia. But Russia has also been effectively stopped in Ukraine, and Europe can live without Russia, as can the United States. The West can afford to lose Russia, nice as it would be to have a peaceful Russia alongside it. Russia’s loss of the West, by contrast, is a grievous setback that could take generations to undo.

 

    

Putin Has Lost Something Worse Than a War

By Michael Kimmage

Mr. Kimmage is a historian of the Cold War and an expert on U.S.-Russian relations.

Fandom isn’t being nurtured anymore. It’s being mined.

 $4785. That's how Much it costs to be a Sport Fan today

By Joon Lee

Mr. Lee previously covered sports for ESPN, Bleacher Report and The Washington Post.

This war has created the best opportunity in decades for a wise statesman to use what Dennis Ross, a longtime Middle East negotiator, calls in his new book, Statecraft 2.0, “coercive diplomacy.” Is Trump up to that? I really don’t know, but we’re going to find out real soon.

 

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

The Smart Way for Trump to End the Israel-Iran War

By Thomas L. Friedman

Opinion Columnist

and then there is this

Trump Does Jews Another Mitzvah

“Basically, what Israel did with Iran is what Russia wanted to do with Ukraine: They thought they could pull off some cloak-and-dagger thing, and infiltrate and decapitate the Ukrainian regime,” said Michael Horowitz, an Israeli geopolitical analyst. “But it turned out that the Ukrainian society has a resilience and cannot be so easily penetrated—whereas when it comes to Iran, the regime is so unpopular that it’s easy to find people there who will agree to work with Israel.”

 

Israel Takes Control of Iran’s Skies—a Feat That Still Eludes Russia in Ukraine

Key Points

What's This?

• Israel achieved air superiority over western Iran within 48 hours of starting its war, a feat Russia couldn’t achieve in Ukraine.

• Israel exploited its air advantage to eliminate surface-to-air missiles in western Iran and key Iranian military leaders.

• Analysts highlight Israel’s superior air-force capabilities, training and integration compared with Russia and Iran.

The Libertarian Party is set with the infrastructure and core philosophy it just needs Rand Paul to pick up on his father's crusade

 

Is There an Opening for a Third Party?

By Nate Cohn the Tilt newsletter

How would Australia accepting second hand nuclear submarines from the U.S. increase its security?

 

Pentagon Is Reviewing Deal to Equip Australia With Nuclear Submarines

By Victoria Kim

Reporting from Sydney, Australia

Think of the political spectrum as being a circle with democracy at 0 degree and absolute dictatorship at 180 with Trump hovering toward 120 and Newsom thinking of 240

 

The 2028 Subtext of Newsom’s Speech

The California governor used a nationally televised address to criticize President Trump and to seize a political moment.

By Adam Nagourney and Laurel Rosenhall

I asked why he thought a French senator’s words on Mr. Trump had such a global impact: “Never before,” Mr. Malhuret said in his speech, has any president “issued so many illegal decrees, dismissed judges who could oppose him, sacked the entire military leadership in one go, weakened all counter powers and taken control of social media. This is not a mere illiberal drift. It is the beginning of the seizure of democracy.” Mr. Malhuret reflected for a long moment, before saying: “The Republicans are scared, the Democrats are stunned and leaderless, but I cannot imagine there will not be a reaction. The American people are facing one of the great challenges of the 21st century, as great as that confronting the French in 1940, when they had to decide whether to join the Resistance or not.”

 

A Cutting French Senator Becomes Trump’s European Nemesis

In biting verbal assaults viewed by millions, Claude Malhuret has issued a scathing critique of the American president, bringing a lifetime of experience to bear.

By Roger Cohen

Reporting from Vichy, France

You go girl !

 

OPINION

GUEST ESSAY

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: My State Is Taking On the Middlemen Who Inflate Drug Prices

By Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Ms. Sanders, a Republican, is the governor of Arkansas.

“May I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow? This is D-Day anniversary, when the Americans once ended a war in Europe,” Mr. Merz stated during his visit as he urged Mr. Trump to help bring an end to the war in Ukraine. “That was not a pleasant day for you?” Mr. Trump replied. “This was not a great day.” “In the long run, Mr. President, this was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship,” Mr. Merz replied, with grave elegance — proving that some visitors from outside the herd can survive the heehawing of the wild kingdom and even emerge victorious.

 

OPINION

GUEST ESSAY

The Trump Reality Show Just Got Weirder

By Lisa Schwarzbaum

Ms. Schwarzbaum is a former film critic for Entertainment Weekly.

On the M31

 Dear Diary:

I was on the M31 bus on the way home. I had a cane, and seemingly half of the other passengers had canes or walkers or were otherwise sitting appropriately in seats marked for the elderly or infirm.

An older woman got on and saw that there were no empty seats. She politely asked a teenage girl to give up her seat, which the girl did.

As she was getting off a few stops later, the older woman stopped to thank the girl.

“Someday you’ll be a senior,” she said. “And then you’ll understand.”

“That won’t be for a while,” the girl said. “I’m just a freshman.”

— Paula Gray Hunker

Colleges should consider advising applicants that in order to promote person to person communication cell phone use will be restricted

 

College Students Are Using ‘No Contact Orders’ to Block Each Other in Real Life

Originally meant to protect victims of sexual harassment or assault on campus, NCOs have become the go-to solution for a generation uncomfortable with face-to-face conflict.

By 

Pamela Paul

 | Illustrations by Carl Godfrey

June 6, 2025 7:55 pm ET