It’s a common refrain: The middle class is hollowing out; Americans overall are increasingly falling short financially while a few are getting exceedingly rich. There’s even a scoreboard of inequality. We’ve persuaded ourselves that many families can no longer achieve the American middle-class dream the way their parents once did. It’s a political hot button,…
Amid the flurry of resignations by ministers who said they had lost confidence in Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership, Jess Phillips’s attack on his record on tech regulation stood out. “Over a year ago I presented solutions, long worked on by brilliant civil servants, that would end the ability for children in the UK to take naked images of…
We humans are capable of enormous devastation, but every now and then, we’re able to agree to stop the worst of our transgressions. We no longer regularly scour the oceans for the great whales only to boil them down for margarine and pet food. We’ve stopped killing wild birds en masse to make hats out…
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…
A federal judge in Washington on Friday tossed a lawsuit filed by the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts against a jazz musician who canceled a performance at the venue’s annual Christmas Eve concert last year after the center’s board added President Trump’s name to the building. In an order throwing out the breach-of-contract…
For some, Pride Month is all about LGBTQIA+ rights, celebration, and acceptance. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT This year, however, it has become associated with a major lawsuit involving a multimillion-dollar clothing company. The American clothing brand Patagonia has filed a lawsuit for trademark infringement against the 33-year-old drag queen, environmental activist and advocate for social causes Pattie…
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…
