Cash, Food and Health Care All Help the Poor, but Something’s Still Missing

EL ESTRIBO, Paraguay — To battle poverty at home or abroad, we provide cash and food, clean water and medical care — and all of this is important....

She May Have Saved a Life. Then She Was Arrested.

The path to Teresa L. Todd’s arrest began when three desperate Central American migrants waved frantically at her car on a Texas highway one night...

We Have 2 Dead Young Heroes. It’s Time to Stand Up to Guns.

Politicians fearful of the National Rifle Association have allowed the gun lobby to run amok so that America now has more guns than people, but there...

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...

How I Would Spend Trump’s Wall Money

Try it yourself – it’s thrilling to hand out billions!

She Wanted to Drive, So Saudi Arabia’s 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...

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....

So, Professor, Was Jesus Really Born to a Virgin?

This is the latest installment in my occasional series of conversations about Christianity. Previously, I’ve spoken with the Rev. Timothy Keller ...

My Biggest Duds

Good thing my mother is a loyal Times subscriber. She was just about the only reader of some of my columns this year! Well, yes, that’s a bit of an...

So, I Asked People in Saudi Arabia About Their Mad, Murderous Crown Prince

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — It’s awkward to find yourself in a police state interviewing people about their leader’s penchant for starving children,...

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....

Your Tax Dollars Help Starve Children

ADEN, Yemen — He is an 8-year-old boy who is starving and has limbs like sticks, but Yaqoob Walid doesn’t cry or complain. He gazes stolidly...

Forget Trinkets. These Gifts Change Lives.

’Tis the season when we inflict on one another neckties and perfumes that no one really wants, plus more than $1 billion in gift cards that are...

Trying to Fight, Not Spread, Fear and Lies

Something continues to nag at me about the midterm elections. It’s the way we in the news media too often allowed ourselves to be manipulated by...

Win a Trip in 2019!

I’m delighted to invite university students to apply for my 2019 win-a-trip contest. I’ve been holding these contests since 2006, and taking the...

No Money. No English. But America Welcomed a Young Foreigner.

One of the things I’m grateful for this Thanksgiving is the warm welcome that America extended to a man born 100 years ago in what is now Ukraine....

The Dangerous Naïveté of Trump and Xi

Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are a bit alike, and that presents a danger to the global order. The American and Chinese leaders are both...

Forget Excuses. What Counts Is Winning Elections.

In the end it was only a blue ripple, and that should prompt soul-searching among Democrats — particularly as everyone looks ahead to 2020. Don’t...

Voters, You’re Being Manipulated

When the bigot who shot up a Pittsburgh synagogue arrived at the local hospital emergency room to be treated for his injuries, he was shouting,...

Liberal Hypocrisy in College Admissions?

We progressives hail opportunity, egalitarianism and diversity. Yet here’s our dirty little secret: Some of our most liberal bastions in America...

Trump’s Ignoring Our Real ‘National Emergies’

It’s not about immigration. It’s about bigotry. That’s the real story — to the extent there is a story at all — about the caravan of 5,000...

Desperately Seeking Principled Republicans

Just as deer populations need wolves or cougars to keep them healthy, Democrats benefit from predatory Republicans. America needs a robust...

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The ‘Greatest Hoax’ Strikes Florida

Justice Delayed, With a Life on the Line

Would You Hire Kavanaugh?

Be Outraged by America’s Role in Yemen’s Misery