Yet Europe needs a future as vital as its past. I fear that unless it sheds pointless but costly regulations, embraces innovation and bolsters its national security, it may become less a model for the world’s liberals than a warning.

 

Is Europe a Model for America? Or a Warning?

By Nicholas Kristof

Opinion Columnist

But this extraordinary turnaround wasn’t just about Ms. Harris. It was also about voters’ immense dissatisfaction with a Biden-Trump rematch, which had brought anxiety and dismay to millions. In an instant, Ms. Harris’s candidacy offered these voters what they had been yearning for: something new, different and more hopeful than that dreaded rematch. It uncorked years of pent-up Democratic enthusiasm. It let Ms. Harris bring the joy back.

 

Will Harris’s Lead Last? A Few Questions That Will Shape the Answer.

By Nate Cohn

Aug. 27, 2024

William F Buckley must be turning over in his grave

 

Trump Can Win on Character

By Rich Lowry

Mr. Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

Democratic National Committee unveiled billboards near the rally in Arizona where Mr. Kennedy, whose support once reached as high as 20 percent in some polls, endorsed the former president. The billboards showed an image of Mr. Trump flanked by Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Vance, with the text “Weird As Hell” in large type.

 

How Democrats View Kennedy and Trump: ‘A Weirdo Campaign Just Got Weirder’

By Nicholas Nehamas

Reporting from Washington

Aug. 27, 2024

“It’s sort of like a rip-the-Band-Aid-off moment,” said Shari Witmore, a fish biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

              Kalamath River Dam Removal

 

By Soumya Karlamangla

Photographs by Loren Elliott

Soumya Karlamangla reported from Yreka, Calif., and spent two days touring dam sites along the Klamath River.

• Aug. 27, 2024

Christians who bemoan cultural hostility to their faith should be humbled by a sad reality. When it comes to inflicting pain on their political adversaries, conservative Christians often give worse than they get.

 

The Christian Persecution Narrative Rings Hollow

By David French

Opinion Columnist

Though public opinion is hard to gauge in a country where candor is dangerous, some discontent over Kursk has been gleaned on social media, and it does seem that Mr. Putin has been rattled. His irritation with the acting governor was one sign; another was his display of anger when he declared that the Ukrainian initiative undermined the possibility of negotiations. “What kind of negotiations can we talk about with people who indiscriminately attack the civilian population and civilian infrastructure, or try to create threats to nuclear power facilities?” he asked, oblivious to the rich irony of his words.

 

Putin Is Getting Rattled

By Serge Schmemann

Mr. Schmemann is a member of the editorial board and a former Moscow bureau chief for The Times.

Norway's oil field adds to its treasury and Mexico's diminishes it.

                                                              Mexico's Big Bet on Oil 

By Simon Romero

Simon Romero has covered the politics of energy across Latin America, with postings in Venezuela and Brazil. He reported this article from Mexico City.

• Aug. 24, 2024
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When he said of Donald Trump, “Don’t count the lies, count the I’s,” I thought, “There he is!”

 

Aug. 22, 2024, 3:03 p.m. ETAug. 22, 2024

Charles M. Blow

Opinion Columnist, reporting from Chicago

An Ode to Bill Clinton

The reason we intend to strictly enforce restrictions on campus protests has less to do with pressure from the outside and more to do with what we owe to ourselves as an institution dedicated to discovery, scholarship, teaching and learning. Our central concern is not with reputation — how others see us. It’s with integrity — how we remain faithful to our foundational purpose. What is that purpose? The main clue comes from the word “university,” derived from the Latin “universitas”: the whole, everything, the universe. We are a university not merely in the sense of being a type of corporation that brings together many programs and departments. We are also a university in that each of us is part of the same truth-seeking enterprise — an enterprise that believes in the universality and interconnectedness of knowledge itself. Here at this school, a historian can learn from a geologist, a neurologist can collaborate with a musicologist, and a freshman student can question and challenge the most senior member of the faculty. Here, students with different backgrounds and perspectives can, with a bit of effort, discuss and debate ideas without descending to name-calling, intimidation or ostracism.

What I Want a University President to Say About Campus Protests OPINION BRET STEPHENS

Pollsters may not capture exactly the role that humor is playing in our political preferences. But losing the humor advantage has made Mr. Trump seem directionless, listless and vulnerable. The energy that humor provides is now invigorating his opponents, who are looking to laugh him off the stage.

 

Trump Is Losing the Humor War

Aug. 17, 2024

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Elon's $44 Billion buy out of Twitter is an epic financial disaster for himself and for his executive ability at Tesla which reminds one of the first Henry Ford.

 

Mr. Musk has had a big effect on Brazilian politics.

After Mr. Bolsonaro’s 2022 election loss, his far-right political movement had been sputtering. He had been ruled ineligible to run in the next election and was under investigation in several cases that could lead to prison time. He and his supporters were struggling to find a voice.

Then Mr. Musk arrived with a torrent of posts harshly criticizing Mr. Moraes. Over 17 days in April, Mr. Musk posted about Mr. Moraes more than two dozen times, calling the judge a dictator and comparing him to Darth Vader. Brazilian magazines and newspapers put Mr. Musk and Mr. Moraes on their covers, and the issue was debated in Brazil’s Congress.

I don't care what her unknowns are. It's either Kamala or the end of our Constitution, the tell being Trump's refusal to deny the claim that his election would end the need for future elections

 

To Undecided Voters, Harris Is Famous, but Unknown. They Want to Learn More.

Minnesota putting Free Tampons in Public Schools is its Constitutional right. Louisiana posting the Ten Commandments is not.

 

What Minnesota’s Law on Free Tampons in Public Schools Actually Does

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Ukraine also claims to have captured hundreds of Russian prisoners of war, who could be traded for Ukrainian prisoners held by Russia. The Russians guarding the border posts in Kursk were mostly conscripts, forced to serve as part of Russia’s mobilization, as opposed to the battle-hardened contract soldiers and irregular forces fighting in Ukraine’s east and south. Putting those conscripts at risk poses a political risk for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia; in Ukraine, Mr. Zelensky has referred to an “exchange fund” that Ukraine has starkly increased.

 

Ukraine’s Push Into Russia Met Early Success. Where Does It Go From Here?

Yes its morning after eight years of Trump fever

 

Is It Morning in Kamala Harris’s America?

OPINION

PAUL KRUGMAN

The kind of character attacks that worked against Hillary Clinton and, in a different way, against Biden don’t seem to be gaining traction. I almost felt sorry for the Fox News host Jesse Watters, who tried to attack Harris by saying: “She likes wine. She likes food. She likes to dance.” This is supposed to make voters dislike her?

Trump Calls Harris a ‘Communist.’ That Shows How Worried He Is.

OPINION

PAUL KRUGMAN

Agreed vote for Harris to save the Constitution and wipe away the scourge of Trump, but because of him the label Conservative is meaningless. The true political Spectrum is Authoritarian versus Libertarian

 

To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris

OPINION

DAVID FRENCH

Appreciate the Constitution's flexibility that allowed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to put extra resources in taking care of his states school children without obligating other states to do the same

 

The Benefits of a Goofball on the Ticket

Marvelous that such a regular guy will be the Vice President

 

Tim Walz’s Extraordinarily Ordinary Life

Elon Musk using Donald Trump's tactic to a support his failing X

 

X, Owned by Elon Musk, Brings Antitrust Suit Accusing Advertisers of a Boycott

“The so-called evangelicals who support Trump have a Jesus problem,” Bishop William Barber II told me. Jesus advocated tirelessly for the poor and warned that nations would be judged “by how we treat the hungry, the sick, the incarcerated and the immigrant,” Bishop Barber said.

 The Christian Case Against Trump

By Eliza Griswold

Ms. Griswold is the author of “Circle of Hope: A Reckoning With Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church.”

Neil Gorsuch: Well, that’s sort of a question about why I wrote the book, David, I think. And the answer is, I’ve been a judge for about 18 years now. And I just have seen so many cases in which ordinary, hard-working, decent Americans, trying to do their best and intending no harm to anyone, just get caught up in a wall of rules or laws that they didn’t know existed.

Neil Gorsuch Has a Few Thoughts About America Today

By David French

Opinion Columnist

• Aug. 4, 2024

Because of a certain Kamala Harris Electoral College victory this coming November I can now support Libertarian Party for President Chase Oliver

Kamala Harris’s strong takeover of the Democrat party and what I believe her certain Electoral College victory this coming November has given me the confidence to support the Libertarian Party candidate for President, Chase Oliver without risk of putting the neofascist Constitution wrecker Donald Trump in charge. I do so in the hope that once the Trump fever subsides by its total failure at the ballot box that the Libertarian ideals of strong local governance and minimal central Washington with just its original Secretary of State, Treasury, Defense (it was War but let’s not go there) and Attorney General as the counter to the left’s overly central government intrusion of twenty five Secretariats.

Power hungry data centers should be forced to invest in mini nukes and locate them near grid isolated wind farms

 

Power-Hungry Data Centers Are Gobbling Up Texas Amid AI Boom

A state’s infamously strained electric grid faces a new threat.

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