Stanley McChrystal: Why Kamala Harris Has Won Me Over
General McChrystal is a retired Army general and the founder of the McChrystal Group, a consulting firm.
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Character is the ultimate measure of leadership for those who seek the highest office in our land. The American revolutionary Thomas Paine is said to have written, “Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.” Regardless of what a person says, character is ultimately laid bare in his or her actions. So I pay attention to what a leader does.
The possibility of a Trump second term is sickening not just for Ukraine, but for the United States of America and its Constitution
On Trip to U.S., Zelensky Finds Ukraine’s Fortunes Tied to the Election
A whirlwind week of top-level meetings failed to alleviate concerns in Kyiv that a Trump presidency could lead to a dramatic shift in American policy.
Reporting from Dnipro and Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine
Thursday, September 26, 2024
I recall the overtly left indoctrination of my 1970's college economic and political science courses that I resisted reading the National Review
A Princeton Professor’s Advice to Young Conservatives
Dr. George is a legal scholar and a political philosopher. He is the McCormick professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University.
If a professor tries to indoctrinate you, resist. How will you know? In courses covering controversial subjects, the lectures and readings may present only one side of a dispute or present only weak versions of competing perspectives. A good professor, on the other hand, especially in the social sciences and humanities, will challenge students’ views even if he or she happens to agree with them. A good professor’s goal is not to convert students but to prod them to think.
Bibi's lapse in keeping Israel's border secure allowed Hamas to start a conflict that has a high probability of marching into grotesque regional conflagration.
Iran’s Dilemma: How to Preserve Its Proxies and Avoid Full-Scale War
Iran says Israel wants to trap it into a direct conflict by bombing Hezbollah, even as a new Iranian president tries outreach to the West.
Opinion Columnist
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
It looks like Shangri-La to me
Pontevedra, a Spanish City That Picked Pedestrians Over Cars
For over two decades the city’s mayor has reclaimed public space for people and limited vehicles in the city center, which reduced traffic and improved air quality.
Monday, September 23, 2024
Apparently Kamala's fascination with cooking is real
Padma Lakshmi: As a Cook, Here’s What I See in Kamala Harris
Ms. Lakshmi is a former host of “Top Chef” and the host of “Taste the Nation.”
Sunday, September 22, 2024
What Trump has done to the Republican Party, Musk has done to Twitter, which he’s renamed X. It was always bad, but now it’s much worse. Because Musk has ruined its system for verifying users and gutted its content moderation, it’s teeming with fake news; on Wednesday, for example, it was full of false claims, amplified by Musk himself, that a car with an explosive device inside was found near Donald Trump’s Long Island rally. White nationalists have been welcomed back onto the platform, and many journalists have fled. When I logged on just now, two of the first three posts in my feed were trollish squibs about voting fraud from Musk, whom I don’t follow.
Whoever wins the presidency will need to deal with the expiration next year of the 2017 Trump tax cuts, with trillions of dollars in taxes and revenue at stake. There are other reasons to worry about the behavior of the stock market. It may soon become difficult to ignore how high the valuations of many stocks have become. Using a wide range of traditional metrics, the market is expensive.
Now That Rates Are Falling, Let’s Turn to Other Matters
The Federal Reserve has at last cut interest rates but our columnist points out a host of concerns that could weigh on financial markets.
Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets, finance and the economy.
“Makes me very sad that this is the case, but the Republicans have shown that they will not certify the results if Donald Trump is not the victor,” she said, “so I think it’s really important that Mike Johnson not be the speaker of the House on Jan. 6, 2025.”
Liz Cheney Suggests a New Political Party May Be Needed
Ms. Cheney, a longtime Republican, said that the G.O.P. “has rejected the Constitution in the name of supporting Trump” and that Mike Johnson should not be speaker.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Overall, the move of immigrants to some small cities has been very beneficial, one of the best hopes these cities have for economic resurgence. But that hope will disappear if immigrants are scared off by a climate of hate. I’ve already mentioned Germany, where some business leaders fear that the rise of right-wing extremism will lead to “economic catastrophe” in the nation’s east, which needs immigration to sustain its economy. Could the same thing happen in America? Yes.
Thank God !
Why Some Christians Don’t Want to Bring the Bible Into Public Schools
As the idea of incorporating the Bible into classrooms gains traction, concerns about the mission of public schools — and differences across the faith — have led even some conservative Christians to push back.
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Boeing has got to sell off its defense business, shut down its space business, shut down its Chicago office, settle with the union as best as it can and put the engineers back in charge as they were before McDonnell Douglas merger
Ending the Boeing Strike Won’t Be Easy. Here’s Why.
The vehemence of workers over wages and other issues caught the company and union leaders off guard.
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
A staggeringly good editorial
After 17 Years in Prison, I’m a Different Person. Do Cases Like Mine Deserve a Second Look?
Joseph Sanchez is a writer incarcerated in New York. He developed this essay in the Sullivan Nonfiction Writers Workshop.
I was thinking they would miss this one, but no listed first !
12 Great Films of James Earl Jones
‘Dr. Strangelove’ (1964)
Not many actors have the good fortune to make their big-screen debut in one of the greatest films of all time. Jones only appears in a handful of scenes in Stanley Kubrick’s grim nuclear war comedy “Dr. Strangelove,” but he does a lot with those few minutes, playing a bombardier whose consummate professionalism leads him to follow the orders of any crackpot commander or incompetent politician who barks in his ear.
Close it, yes. No to further priorities whether they are his or Kamala's
Trump Wants to Shut Down the Department of Education?
Donald Trump has argued he would use the department to further his priorities — or close it.
Monday, September 9, 2024
Last month, I wrote a column that generated intense blowback on the right because I argued that as a pro-life conservative I am voting for Kamala Harris. That was controversial enough, but what really seemed to make people angry was one of my stated motivations: that I am voting for Harris to try to save conservatism from MAGA. Defeating Trump, I said, gives conservative Americans a chance to “build something decent from the ruins of a party that was once a force for genuine good in American life.”
Personally, I bought a Ford Mustang despite that Tesla is the better EV because I can't stand Elon ever since he bought Twitter
How Elon Musk Is Influencing Donald Trump
Their fast-evolving political friendship has become a potential minefield, as Mr. Musk’s sprawling businesses may present conflicts of interest if Mr. Trump is elected in November.
Saturday, September 7, 2024
No country can discredit American democracy more than Donald Trump
Iran Emerges as a Top Disinformation Threat in U.S. Presidential Race
With a flurry of hacks and fake websites, Iran has intensified its efforts to discredit American democracy and possibly tip the race against former President Donald Trump.
You might consider me insane but where are the mosquitos and horseflies on Connecticut's Long island Sound shoreline?
Researchers Study the global decline of insect Populations
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Researchers study the global decline of insect populations
Researchers study the global decline of insect populations
Talk about a paper tiger Russia's F.S.B. opens criminal cases against Western and Ukrainian journalists, who followed the troops onto Russian territory without following Russian customs procedures and getting passport checks.
Distracted and Divided, Russian Security Service Misses Threats
The Ukrainian offensive over the border caught Moscow’s intelligence agencies by surprise, experts say. It wasn’t the first time.
Friday, September 6, 2024
Mr. Smith, the charges said, responded with a strongly worded denial: “This is absolutely wrong and crazy!,” he said. “There is absolutely no fraud going on whatsoever! How can I appeal this?”
The Bands and the Fans Were Fake. The $10 Million Was Real.
Federal prosecutors charged a North Carolina musician with gaming the system to win royalties from streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music.
Insects, those small animals that play a mighty role in supporting life on Earth, are facing alarming declines. Solar farms can offer them food and shelter by providing a diverse mix of native plants. Meanwhile locally here on the Connecticut shore of Long Island I note a radical reduction of horse flies and mosquitoes .
Solar Farms have a Superpower beyond Clean Energy
Catrin Einhorn visited seven solar sites in California and Minnesota for this article
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
“I’m too nervous about what he might do to our country,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I have three children. I want them to grow up in a democracy like we did.”
Haley’s Voters Size Up a Scrambled Presidential Race
The people who voted against Donald Trump and for Nikki Haley in the G.O.P. primaries are weighing whether to support Kamala Harris. Either way, they could help sway a close election in swing states.
In trying to save pennies, Boar's Head management destroyed a $Billion in equity
A deadly listeria outbreak at the plant in Jarratt, Va., has residents worried about the town’s future.
‘Imminent Threat’ Found at Boar’s Head Plant 2 Years Before Fatal Listeria Outbreak
U.S. inspectors listed serious problems in 2022 that could have resulted in strict measures like a pause in production. But the plant continued operating, and some conditions persisted.
X is banned · China · Iran · Turkmenistan · North Korea · Myanmar · Russia · Pakistan · Venezuela. Elon is so involved in China that one can see his respecting their ban. but what stops his disrespecting the others?
The satellite internet service controlled by Elon Musk is refusing to comply with a court order to block his social network, X, regulators said.
Sunday, September 1, 2024
This is also something that, as November draws ever nearer, should worry Democratic strategists. For young workers like Mr. Amaro and Mr. Leach and millions of other Americans like them who are busting their humps week in and week out trying to get ahead, the price of gas, groceries and housing is perhaps the most important factor in determining their vote. Not abortion, not Gaza, not the war in Ukraine. As long as the perception that Mr. Trump will do a better job with the economy remains unchallenged, the Democrats will pay a price at the polls, perhaps a dear one. “I care a lot about nature,” Mr. Amaro said, “but also I think about my future and how I can take care of my family, and what would benefit me, in the long term, financially. And it kind of sucks to think like that.”
What the Lobstermen of Maine Tell Us About the Election
Mr. Ellsworth, a historian, traveled to Maine for this essay.
As the last president to win successive landslide elections, Mr. Reagan offers many political lessons, but not the rigidly ideological ones that both his admirers and detractors are too often drawing. Returning to Reaganism might be a plausible path forward for the G.O.P., but only if Mr. Trump loses the election in November. In that case, the battle over what Mr. Reagan has to teach us today would truly heat up — and the combatants would do well to remember the very real qualities that made him a unifying force.
Conservatives Fighting Over Reagan’s Legacy Overlook What Made Him Successful
Mr. Heilbrunn is the editor of The National Interest and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. He has written two books about the American political right.
Whatever our politics, Trump brings out the worst in all of us. He nurtures hate on his side that we mirror. So let’s take a deep breath, summon F.D.R.’s empathy for the forgotten man, follow Clinton’s advice — and, for the sake of winning elections as well as of civility, remember that the best way to get others to listen to us is to first listen to them.
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