To the Editor: Re “It’s Not Just Babies Who Need Checkups,” by Sejal Hathi (Opinion guest essay, May 28): The most medically intense periods of my life were during both of my pregnancies; my first hospital admission was for the birth of my now 5-year-old. However, my experience was very different from Dr. Hathi’s. I…
David French: Hey, Michelle. Jamelle Bouie: Hello, hello. Cottle: Hello, hello. All right. This week I want us to talk about Graham Platner, the headline-grabbing Democratic Senate candidate at the center of Tuesday’s Maine primary elections. What does his rise say about where Dems are placing their bets on the future leadership of the party?…
Have we lost the ability to surrender to a story? Surely, if there’s any narrative that deserves our undivided attention, it’s that of a crown court judge fighting the legal system’s approach to sexual violence against women, when she discovers her own son has been accused of rape. But as Rosamund Pike discovered last weekend,…
To learn of the last minutes of Henry Nowak’s life would be shocking and distressing under any circumstances. The stabbed teenager begged officers for help, as they handcuffed him before realising their mistake. To watch those final moments, on the police body-cam footage released this week, is all the more immediate, and unbearable. The outrage…
In 1949, shortly after “Death of a Salesman” premiered on Broadway, Arthur Miller wrote an article in The New York Times titled “Tragedy and the Common Man” that began, “In this age few tragedies are written.” He suggested that this was thought to be due to a “paucity of heroes among us,” which has led…
Alarm bells ought to have rung when it emerged last month that Palantir engineers could gain “unlimited access” to identifiable NHS patient data. Such sensitive medical information was only supposed to be available either to someone involved in a patient’s care or with the patient’s informed consent. NHS England’s new position appears to have changed…
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In Germany, it is a Brandmauer, a firewall. In France, it is the cordon sanitaire – a refusal by mainstream parties to do deals with the far right. That resolve has weakened in recent years, but naming the taboo still serves an important function. To invigilate the line where radical conservatism turns to ultranationalism, it…
Forget all of Elon Musk’s talk of heading to the moon and Mars, or “extending the light of consciousness to the stars.” The real reason for his forthcoming initial public offering — very likely to be the largest ever, opening up a small piece of SpaceX to the stock market — is far more mercenary….
The discourse surrounding theft and knife-related assaults in Morocco is no longer merely the reflection of scattered news reports relayed by the media or social media platforms. It has evolved into a daily obsession haunting citizens and raising profound questions about the causes behind the rise of this phenomenon and its repercussions on collective security….
