Category: Analysis & Comment

TILONIA, India — It’s the Harvard of rural India, minus wingtips or heels: a 50-year-old institution called Barefoot College that offers lessons for empowering people worldwide. Maybe even in America. … Read More

Ron DeSantis has an enemies list, and you can probably guess who’s on it. There’s the “woke dumpster fire” of the Democratic Party and the “swamp Republicans” who neglect their … Read More

Imagine there’s a small fire in your kitchen. Your fire alarm goes off, warning everyone nearby about the danger. Someone calls 911. You try to put the fire out yourself … Read More

On Dec. 15, nurses walked out and began the largest nurses’ strike in the history of Britain’s National Health Service. They were protesting working conditions that have left them burned … Read More

No one should be mistaken about what unfolded over the past few days in the U.S. banking system: These recent bank failures are the direct result of leaders in Washington … Read More

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist In the … Read More

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Farhad Manjoo Opinion Columnist As I … Read More

Vice President Kamala Harris occupies an office that can be the butt of jokes and criticism. The only duties of the vice president spelled out in the Constitution are to … Read More

The war in Ukraine, one year on One year after Russia’s invasion, virtually no one in Ukraine has avoided the violence, destruction and bloodshed of the war, which has killed … Read More

Lurking behind the concerns of Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, over the content of a proposed high school course in African American Studies, is a long and complex series … Read More

Preceded by a series of previews in Palm Beach, Paris and New York — the last of which included a performance by the Abyssinian Baptist Church choir — the estate … Read More

Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Michelle Goldberg Opinion Columnist The work … Read More