Opinion | I’m a Pro-Life Priest. Anti-Abortion Groups Are Wrong to Oppose PEPFAR.
In 1997, the global AIDS crisis was growing more dire by the day. That year, I was on a mission as a Roman Catholic priest and social worker to help…
Opinion | By Abandoning Civics, Colleges Helped Create the Culture Wars
Free speech is once again a flashpoint on college campuses. This year has seen at least 20 instances in which students or faculty members attempted to rescind invitations or to…
Opinion | Ban Online Porn for Kids
New Yorkers above a certain age remember the old Times Square. If you created a list of words to describe it, “depraved” would be near the top. Peep shows, adult…
Opinion | Prigozhin’s Real Legacy: The Mercenary Blueprint
The death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner mercenary chief, has set off intense speculation over the future of the world’s most dangerous private army. In reality, the departure of the…
Opinion | We’re Taking New York City’s Streets Back — and Then We’re Coming for the Rest of the Country
The fury around congestion pricing is part of a larger debate that has animated a great deal of big city politics of late: Who owns the streets? The public right…
Opinion | I Spent 17 Years Photographing One Family’s Grief and Growth
Rich St. Pierre was 7 years old when his mother died suddenly. Well-meaning adults would tell him that “she had gone to a better place.” What, he wondered, was better…
Opinion | Anxiety in the Age of Barbie
It was “the summer of girl power,” a tour de force by a glittering troika. With pink dream houses, songs and sequins, Barbie, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé buoyed the economy…
Opinion | Are Armenians Being Ethnically Cleansed — Again?
With its Russian torture chambers and slaughter of civilians, the war in Ukraine is horrifying enough. But what if another country is taking advantage of the distraction to commit its…
Opinion | Superstar Cities in the Age of Zoom
On Friday morning, just before writing this newsletter, I spoke to a conference of the Regional Science Association in Alicante, Spain. Notice the choice of preposition: “to,” not “at.” Given…
Opinion | Partisan Politics Puts a Huge Win for Public Health at Risk
At the end of 2001, not long after George W. Bush became president, there were 40 million people across the globe living with H.I.V./AIDS, which was usually a death sentence…
Opinion | Behind Dianne Feinstein’s Headlines Lies Another, Untold Story
For the person who is losing their cognition, terror can be a constant companion, confusion nips at their heels, and they reach desperately for the person they once were. Caregivers…
Opinion | Brian Kemp, Raphael Warnock and Georgia’s Post-Trump Present
Georgia’s 16 electoral votes and a voting population that has supported both Democrats and Republicans at the top of the ticket in recent years keep the state one of few…
Opinion | Not Everything We Call Cancer Should Be Called Cancer
“You have cancer.” Ask anyone who has been told this: It’s terrifying. That’s one reason we need to rethink what we call cancer. Despite amazing advances in our understanding of…
Opinion | The Trump Trial Date Is a Big Mistake
I intended to write a normal horse-race column this week, about what we can glean from the polling that came out after the first Republican debate. The emphasis was going…