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In a Career of Reporting, These Are Stories That Still Touch Me
Tuesday is 35 years since I walked into The New York Times for my first day of work. It was my first real job, initially covering international business and economics, and to mark the anniversary I’ve gone back and dug up some of the pieces over the decades that were particularly meaningful to me.
The Mueller Hearings and the Stench in Washington
Robert Mueller seemed to be hoping during congressional hearings on Wednesday that SEAL Team 6 would rush in and rescue him from his interrogators.The Bill-Melinda Gates Romance Started With a Rejection
Melinda Gates has always had an independent streak. When she was still Melinda French and a young employee working at Microsoft in 1987, Bill Gates flirted with her in the parking lot and asked if she would go out with him in two weeks. She turned him down.Even After a Trade Deal, Be Wary of China
President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping of China will probably soon reach a trade agreement, but that won't solve the biggest problems.The Cruelty at the Border Continues
President Donald Trump claimed last June to have ended the practice of separating immigrant families at the southern border. “We are going to keep the families together,” he declared from the Oval Office.Jared and the Saudi Crown Prince Go Nuclear?
Jared Kushner slipped quietly into Saudi Arabia last week for a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, so the question I’m trying to get the White House to answer is this: Did they discuss American help for a Saudi nuclear program?Waiting for the Trump-Kim Nobel Peace Prize
As President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un hold a summit meeting this upcoming week in Vietnam, they have something in common: Each apparently looks in the mirror and sees a Nobel Peace Prize winner.Navigating the Male-Female Work Relationship
We’re seeing a backlash from the #MeToo movement, with many male bosses saying in surveys that they are less willing now to mentor junior female colleagues, go to dinner with them, travel with them — generally treat them as co-workers rather than as land mines.She Wanted to Drive, So Saudi Ruler Imprisoned and Tortured Her
Remember this name: Loujain (pronounced Loo-JAYNE) al-Hathloul. She is 29 years old and a courageous advocate for gender equality — so she is in a Saudi Arabian prison, and reportedly our Saudi allies have tortured her, even waterboarded her.Why Infants May Be More Likely to Die in America Than Cuba
HAVANA — Claudia Fernández, 29, is an accountant whose stomach bulges with her first child, a girl, who is due in April.
Trump's Craziest Shutdown Arguments
I’d like to apologize to all the “banana republics” I’ve offended over the decades with snarky references to their dysfunction. This is karma: I now live in a nation where a petulant president has shut down much of the most powerful government in the world — so the White House isn’t even paying its water bills.Why 2018 Was the Best Year in Human History!
The world is, as everyone knows, going to hell, but there’s still the nervous thrill of waiting to see precisely which dark force will take us down. Will the economy collapse first, the ice sheets melt first, or chaos and war envelop us first?Professor, Was Jesus Really Born to a Virgin?
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Good thing my mother is a loyal Times subscriber. She was just about the only reader of some of my columns this year!So, I Asked Saudis About Mr. Bone Saw
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — It’s awkward to find yourself in a police state interviewing people about their leader’s penchant for starving children, torturing women or dismembering critics.This Is What Our Yemen Policy Looks Like
ADEN, Yemen — I’m giving up most of my column space today to introduce you to Abrar Ibrahim, a 12-year-old girl in Yemen who weighs just 28 pounds. Nothing I write can be as searing or persuasive or true as Abrar is in this photo.
The GOP is now a personality cult
The tragedy of today’s Republican Party lies partly in how far it has tumbled from its heights.
Racist to the bone. Consider the mandible
After instructing four women of color in the House of Representatives to “go back” where they came from, President Donald Trump now claims, “I don’t have a Racist bone in my body!”
Trump and Iran may be on a collision course, and it could get scarier
So we’re facing a very real crisis, without good face-saving exit ramps for either Trump or Khamenei. This could get scarier.
When we kill
“I hereby sentence you to death.”
