Last month, Yoav Gallant told Israelis that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was leading the nation astray. Mr. Gallant, the defense minister and a member of the war cabinet, accused him of letting the nation drift into a military and civilian occu
In a village in the hills of Guerrero State, residents ran from their homes as drones flew overhead, dropping makeshift bombs. For months, drug cartel operatives had been deploying the commercial devices to drop explosives packed into metal casingsp
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2024-10-09On July 9, as the world stared at the blood-splattered rubble of a Ukrainian children’s hospital in Kyiv, Russia celebrated its rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council with a lunch in New York. On the menu was chicken Kiev, a popu
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2024-10-09Gail Collins: Bret, I can’t wait to hear your impression of Kamala Harris’s big Chicago speech. Tell, tell. Bret Stephens: As rhetoric? I thought it was strong. She told Americans who she was, where she came from, what her values and dreams are made
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2024-10-09Many years ago, in the 1980s, I went to Brighton Beach, then in its heyday as a district of newly arrived Soviet Jews, to celebrate the first year (there would not be many more) of the lively local Russian-language weekly, The New American. It was a
Tens of thousands of people were expected to march on the Democratic National Convention to protest the loss of innocent lives in Gaza. But by early Monday afternoonphclub, only a fraction had shown up. The speakers were spirited, to be sure. But th
We see so few truly old faces in the mediawinning plus, especially old women’s faces. But occasionally, they are celebrated. In October 2023, at the age of 88, Dame Maggie Smith — who died on Sept. 27 — starred in an arresting ad campaign for the lu
“I wish I could live through something,” says the teenage title character in the 2017 movie “Lady Bird,” yearning for a life beyond suburban Sacramento. The actor playing her, Saoirse Ronan, had, at that point, already lived through enough for sever
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll find out about a new list of “great trees” in New York City. We’ll also get details on the departures of a top official and two lower-level aides at City Hall. Image The dawn redwood in the Liz Christy Garden