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23/05/2019

Power is acting for good — and knowing when you should. By Wesley K. Clark Mr. Clark is a former NATO supreme allied commander. May 23, 2019 45 The White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.CreditMaddie McGarvey for The New York Times "Over the years, thousands of cadets at the United States Military Academy, myself included, have memorized and recited West Point’s Cadet Prayer. [ 255 more words ]
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Power is acting for good — and knowing when you should. By Wesley K. Clark Mr. Clark is a former NATO supreme allied commander. May 23, 2019 45 The White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.CreditMad…

23/05/2019

By Gretchen Reynolds May 22, 2019 62 "Skipping breakfast before exercise might reduce how much we eat during the remainder of the day, according to a small but intriguing new study of fit young men. The study finds that the choice to eat or omit a meal before an early workout could affect our relationship to food for the rest of the day, in complicated and sometimes unexpected ways. [ 133 more words ]
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By Gretchen Reynolds May 22, 2019 62 “Skipping breakfast before exercise might reduce how much we eat during the remainder of the day, according to a small but intriguing new study of fit you…

22/05/2019

By Ana Swanson and Edward Wong May 21, 2019 208 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering limits to a Chinese video surveillance giant’s ability to buy American technology, people familiar with the matter said, the latest attempt to counter Beijing’s global economic ambitions. The move would effectively place the company, Hikvision, on a United States blacklist. It also would mark the first time the Trump administration punished a Chinese company for its role in the surveillance and mass detention of Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority. [ 114 more words ]
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By Ana Swanson and Edward Wong May 21, 2019 208 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering limits to a Chinese video surveillance giant’s ability to buy American technology…

16/05/2019

Trump’s Love for Tariffs Began in Japan’s ’80s Boom – By Jim Tankersley and Mark Landler – The New York Times
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15/05/2019

By Wendy R. Sherman Ms. Sherman is the former under secretary of state for political affairs. May 15, 2019 The USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier, has been deployed to the Persian Gulf in response to unspecified threats from Iran.CreditU.S. Navy, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images "Either the Trump administration is trying to goad Iran into war or a war could come by accident because of the administration’s reckless policies, but the prospect of the current tensions in the Middle East escalating into a serious conflict are now dangerously high. [ 229 more words ]
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By Wendy R. Sherman Ms. Sherman is the former under secretary of state for political affairs. May 15, 2019 The USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier, has been deployed to the Persian Gulf in res…

15/05/2019

". . . That’s not what I’ve found. America is actually a checkerboard of towns and cities — some rising from the bottom up and others collapsing from the top down, ravaged by opioids, high unemployment among less-educated white males and a soaring su***de rate. I’ve been trying to understand why some communities rise and others fall — and so many of the answers can be found in Willmar. [ 69 more words ]
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“. . . That’s not what I’ve found. America is actually a checkerboard of towns and cities — some rising from the bottom up and others collapsing from the top down, ravaged by opioids, high u…

15/05/2019

By MOISES VELASQUEZ-MANOFF MAY 14, 2019 "When Catherine Jacobson first heard about the promise of cannabis, she was at wits’ end. Her 3-year-old son, Ben, had suffered from epileptic seizures since he was 3 months old, a result of a brain malformation called polymicrogyria. Over the years, Jacobson and her husband, Aaron, have tried giving him at least 16 different drugs, but none provided lasting relief. [ 199 more words ]
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By MOISES VELASQUEZ-MANOFF MAY 14, 2019 “When Catherine Jacobson first heard about the promise of cannabis, she was at wits’ end. Her 3-year-old son, Ben, had suffered from epileptic seizures…

13/05/2019

". . . Last week, the United Nations released the summary of an enormous report that broke my heart in more ways than any backyard-nature observations ever have. The Times article about the report, “Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an ‘Unprecedented’ Pace,” called it “the most exhaustive look yet at the decline in biodiversity across the globe and the dangers that creates for human civilization.” The story opens with the picture of an olive ridley sea turtle washed up on an Indian beach. [ 299 more words ]
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“. . . Last week, the United Nations released the summary of an enormous report that broke my heart in more ways than any backyard-nature observations ever have. The Times article about the …

13/05/2019

By The Editorial Board The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section. May 11, 2019 343 CreditIllustrations by Yann Kebbi "Our planet has suffered five mass extinctions, the last of which occurred about 66 million years ago, when a giant asteroid believed to have landed near the Yucatán Peninsula set off a chain reaction that wiped out the dinosaurs and roughly three-quarters of the other species on earth. [ 410 more words ]
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By The Editorial Board The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section. May 11, 2019 343 CreditIllustr…

13/05/2019

". . . There are better options. Bill Clinton and then George W. Bush invested some $10 billion in counterinsurgency and counternarcotics efforts to rescue Colombia from the grip of jungle guerrillas and drug lords. The plan was expensive, took a decade, involved the limited deployment of U.S. troops, and was widely mocked. Yet it worked. Colombia is South America’s great turnaround story. [ 118 more words ]
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“. . . There are better options. Bill Clinton and then George W. Bush invested some $10 billion in counterinsurgency and counternarcotics efforts to rescue Colombia from the grip of jungle gu…

13/05/2019

By Manny Fernandez May 10, 2019 966 "MCALLEN, Tex. — Teresa L. Todd pulled over one recent night on a dark West Texas highway to help three young Central American migrants who had flagged her down. Ms. Todd — an elected official, government lawyer and single mother in a desert border region near Big Bend National Park — said she went into “total mom mode” when she saw the three siblings, one of whom appeared to be very ill. [ 185 more words ]
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By Manny Fernandez May 10, 2019 966 “MCALLEN, Tex. — Teresa L. Todd pulled over one recent night on a dark West Texas highway to help three young Central American migrants who had flagged her…

08/05/2019

By Aubrey Menarndt Ms. Menarndt is an international elections monitor. May 8, 2019 Preparing in April for voting by prisoners in North Macedonia’s presidential election.CreditMichael Forster Rothbart "As the Democratic candidates debate whether current and former prisoners should be allowed to vote, it’s worth recalling that many other countries make it easy for incarcerated people to do it. I’ve represented the United States throughout the world as an international elections monitor, visiting polling stations, talking to elections officials and helping international teams assess whether elections are free and fair. [ 65 more words ]
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By Aubrey Menarndt Ms. Menarndt is an international elections monitor. May 8, 2019 Preparing in April for voting by prisoners in North Macedonia’s presidential election.CreditMichael Forster Rothba…

08/05/2019

By Sylvie Kauffmann Ms. Kauffmann is the editorial director of Le Monde. May 7, 2019 Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Emmanuel Macron of France last month in Berlin, where he criticized German policies in unusually blunt terms.CreditAbdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency, via Getty Images "PARIS — Two days after he took office as France’s president, Emmanuel Macron flew to Berlin. It was May 16, 2017, and France and Germany needed a reset. [ 297 more words ]
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By Sylvie Kauffmann Ms. Kauffmann is the editorial director of Le Monde. May 7, 2019 Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Emmanuel Macron of France last month in Berlin, where he criti…

07/05/2019

(CNN)One million of the planet's eight million species are threatened with extinction by humans, scientists warned Monday in what is described as the most comprehensive assessment of global nature loss ever. Their landmark report paints a bleak picture of a planet ravaged by an ever-growing human population, whose insatiable consumption is destroying the natural world. The global rate of species extinction "is already tens to hundreds of times higher than it has been, on average, over the last 10 million years," according to the [ 35 more words ]
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(CNN)One million of the planet’s eight million species are threatened with extinction by humans, scientists warned Monday in what is described as the most comprehensive assessment of global n…

07/05/2019

By David Brooks Opinion Columnist May 7, 2019 240 An Arizona State University student prepared for graduation on Monday.CreditDeanna Dent/Arizona State University "On Monday I was honored to speak to the graduating students at Arizona State University. It was an intimidating occasion. A.S.U. is the most innovative university in the world. Plus, there were 35,000 people in the football stadium. [ 100 more words ]
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By David Brooks Opinion Columnist May 7, 2019 240 An Arizona State University student prepared for graduation on Monday.CreditDeanna Dent/Arizona State University “On Monday I was honored to …

07/05/2019

By James Poniewozik April 10, 2019 "One of the hallmarks of a past generation’s nature documentaries was the animal-in-peril scene: the cub hunted by the jungle cat, the fledgling teetering at the edge of its nest. It was like the terror of a thrill-park ride, one that usually came with the implicit knowledge of safeguards and constraints. In the end, the adorable creature would survive. [ 143 more words ]
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By James Poniewozik April 10, 2019 “One of the hallmarks of a past generation’s nature documentaries was the animal-in-peril scene: the cub hunted by the jungle cat, the fledgling teetering a…

07/05/2019

"It looks as spectacular as you would expect. Vast aerial sweeps across the Peruvian coast as millions of cormorants and bo***es gather to feast on anchovies and breed, or across frozen tundra to watch herds of caribou head for the shelter of the forest in temperatures 40 degrees below freezing take your breath away. Then it catches in your throat, as you watch an orchid bee, in search of perfume to attract a mate, fall into a flower’s buckety petal and squeeze out of a tiny tunnel that deposits two sacks of pollen on its back; just as God, or a million years of evolutionary adjustments, intended. [ 224 more words ]
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“It looks as spectacular as you would expect. Vast aerial sweeps across the Peruvian coast as millions of cormorants and bo***es gather to feast on anchovies and breed, or across frozen tundr…

07/05/2019

By Brad Plumer May 6, 2019 1532 Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. WASHINGTON — Humans are transforming Earth’s natural landscapes so dramatically that as many as one million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction, posing a dire threat to ecosystems that people all over the world depend on for their survival, a sweeping new United Nations assessment has concluded. [ 211 more words ]
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By Brad Plumer May 6, 2019 1532 Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. WASHINGTON — Humans are transforming Earth’s natural landscapes so dramatically…

06/05/2019

By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist May 4, 2019 235 Prisoners in a gymnasium that has been converted to house inmates, at California Institution for Men in Chino, in 2011.CreditAnn Johansson/Corbis, via Getty Images "America’s biggest mistake over the last half-century arguably had nothing to do with the war in Vietnam or Iraq, or with Watergate or Donald Trump. Rather, I’d say that it was mass incarceration, fueled by the war on drugs. [ 63 more words ]
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By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist May 4, 2019 235 Prisoners in a gymnasium that has been converted to house inmates, at California Institution for Men in Chino, in 2011.CreditAnn Johansson/Corb…

02/05/2019

By Neal K. Katyal Mr. Katyal drafted the special counsel regulations under which Robert Mueller was appointed. May 1, 2019 241 Attorney General William Barr testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.CreditErin Schaff/The New York Times "Many who watched Attorney General William Barr’s testimony on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which followed the revelation that the special counsel Robert Mueller had expressed misgivings about Mr. [ 519 more words ]
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By Neal K. Katyal Mr. Katyal drafted the special counsel regulations under which Robert Mueller was appointed. May 1, 2019 241 Attorney General William Barr testifying before the Senate Judiciary C…

02/05/2019

But more often, proximity to an amoral leader reveals something depressing. I think that’s at least part of what we’ve seen with Bill Barr and Rod Rosenstein. Accomplished people lacking inner strength can’t resist the compromises necessary to survive Mr. Trump and that adds up to something they will never recover from. It takes character like Mr. Mattis’s to avoid the damage, because Mr. [ 519 more words ]
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But more often, proximity to an amoral leader reveals something depressing. I think that’s at least part of what we’ve seen with Bill Barr and Rod Rosenstein. Accomplished people lacking inner stre…

02/05/2019

By David Perlmutt and Julie Turkewitz May 1, 2019 462 "CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In an alert that flashed across computer and phone screens all over campus, the instructions were spare but urgent: “Run, Hide, Fight. Secure yourself immediately.” But Riley Howell could neither run nor hide. The gunman was in his classroom. So, the authorities said, he charged at the gunman, who had already fired several rounds, and pinned him down until police officers arrived."
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By David Perlmutt and Julie Turkewitz May 1, 2019 462 “CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In an alert that flashed across computer and phone screens all over campus, the instructions were spare but urgent: “R…

01/05/2019

By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist April 30, 2019 578 President Trump approaches global problems through “transactional muscular unilateralism,’’ according to the author William J. Burns. CreditSarah Silbiger/The New York Times "The year 2019 will be remembered for a lot of things, but in foreign policy it may well be remembered as the year our luck ran out. How so? The period after World War II was one of those incredibly plastic moments in history, and we were incredibly lucky that a group of leaders appeared who understood that this moment of Western and U.S. [ 63 more words ]
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By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist April 30, 2019 578 President Trump approaches global problems through “transactional muscular unilateralism,’’ according to the author William J. Burns. Cred…

01/05/2019

"Joe Biden’s father led the high life as a young man: yachts, fast cars, polo. But his fortunes ran out, thanks to a few bad business deals. Eventually, he got a job managing a used car dealership. But at the office Christmas party, the owner decided to issue bonuses by taking a bucket of silver dollars and strewing them across the dance floor, forcing the employees to scramble about on their knees picking up the loot. [ 143 more words ]
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“Joe Biden’s father led the high life as a young man: yachts, fast cars, polo. But his fortunes ran out, thanks to a few bad business deals. Eventually, he got a job managing a used car deale…

01/05/2019

"It was Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, who declared the proceedings a “war” and characterized Ms. Hill’s testimony as “flat-out perjury.” It was Alan Simpson, Republican of Wyoming, who suggested that Ms. Hill might be suffering from “a delusional disorder” and stated that unnamed others had told him to “watch out for this woman.” It was Howell Heflin, Democrat of Alabama, who suggested in his questioning that Ms. [ 176 more words ]
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“It was Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, who declared the proceedings a “war” and characterized Ms. Hill’s testimony as “flat-out perjury.” It was Alan Simpson, Republican of Wyomin…

01/05/2019

By Justin Gillis and Bruce Nilles Mr. Gillis is a former New York Times environmental reporter and a contributing opinion writer. Mr. Nilles is a managing director at Rocky Mountain Institute. May 1, 2019 CreditAngie Wang "OAKLAND, Calif. — We have some good news that sounds like bad news: Your gas stove has to go. We know how you’ll feel reading those words. [ 158 more words ]
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By Justin Gillis and Bruce Nilles Mr. Gillis is a former New York Times environmental reporter and a contributing opinion writer. Mr. Nilles is a managing director at Rocky Mountain Institute. May …

01/05/2019

A new movement is demanding solutions. They may just be in time to save the planet. By David Graeber Mr. Graeber is an anthropologist and activist. May 1, 2019 Extinction Rebellion members during climate protests in London last week.CreditFrank Augstein/Associated Press "On April 15, thousands of activists from a movement called Extinction Rebellion started occupying several sites in central London, shutting down major roads and demanding the country’s politicians take immediate, drastic action in the face of climate change. [ 214 more words ]
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A new movement is demanding solutions. They may just be in time to save the planet. By David Graeber Mr. Graeber is an anthropologist and activist. May 1, 2019 Extinction Rebellion members during …

01/05/2019

Quiz: How Does Your DietContribute to Climate Change? See how your food choices compare with those of other Americans. PICK the meals that are most similar to what you ate yesterday. (Be honest!)
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Quiz: How Does Your DietContribute to Climate Change? See how your food choices compare with those of other Americans. PICK the meals that are most similar to what you ate yesterday. (Be honest!)