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TUCSON, Arizona — My earliest childhood memories are of the wind sweeping across the deserts of West Texas, over the rolling hills and stone peaks of the Guadalupe Mountains National Park, where my mother worked as a ranger for the National Park Service. Her duties were not just to protect and preserve places of natural beauty but also to interpret […]
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This article is part of David Leonhardt’s newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. The Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee might want to spend a little time brushing up on psychology. A raft of academic research has found that a simple recitation of facts often fails to change people’s minds. A more promising approach can […]
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With the conclusion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 70th anniversary summit in London, it’s fair to say that Donald Trump thinks that most alliance members, starting with France and Canada, are a bunch of ungrateful and unhelpful freeloaders. Fair to say, also, that most of those members see Trump as an erratic, pompous, dangerous simpleton. There’s no reason they […]
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At my son’s primary school, where they have an annual summertime sports day, each of the children gets a rosette. It doesn’t matter if you come first in the egg and spoon race, or trip over your shoelaces a few feet from the starting line, all the boys and girls are treated equally. On this one special day of the […]
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For a couple seeking to buy their first home, it would not be unreasonable to conclude that the game is rigged against them. House prices have hit stratospheric levels, having risen by 85pc since they hit a low in 2013. Incomes are rising now, but have been stagnant for years. Not nearly enough houses are being built. And rents continually […]
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It’s three years since I encountered the two of them in a multi-storey Dublin car park on a bitterly cold afternoon just a few weeks before Christmas. John and Mary. This is what happened… I’d returned to the car park that afternoon after a meeting in Grafton Street. It was freezing cold, and as I pressed the button to summon […]
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To visit Venezuela today is to see how misrule can shatter a country. Years of corrupt, incompetent and autocratic rule have left Venezuelans hungry and children dying for want of basic medical care. Daniela Serrano, above, lost a child this year to malnutrition and now watches apprehensively as her daughter, Daryelis, 3, undergoes a health exam at a clinic affiliated […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Hudson’s Bay Co (HBC.TO) director who led the Saks Fifth Avenue owner’s negotiations to sell itself to a group of controlling shareholders said on Wednesday that the C$1.9 billion ($1.4 billion) deal was the only one available. David Leith, chairman of Hudson’s Bay’s special board committee that negotiated the sale to a buyout consortium led […]
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Turning Point: The Michelin Guide this year awarded 11 stars to women chefs in France, the most in the guide’s history. When I was just shy of 20, I had a realization: If I wanted to become an accomplished chef, I had to leave France. This fact has been a source of curiosity for many people throughout the years, for […]
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When we buy stuff, we want to know we’re getting the most for our money. So why don’t we demand the same thing with our charitable donations? If we can buy twice as much good for the same money — or three times as much, or a thousand — why don’t we? “There’s a very emotional aspect to giving,” said […]
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