Opinion

MUNICH — When Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, no one imagined Moscow would be enmeshed in a quagmire four years later, having lost nearly 1.2 million killed, wounded, or missing soldiers to an army a fraction of its size. The price Ukraine has paid for its defiance was written on Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s face — weary, puffy, aged dramatically beyond his 48 years — as he took the stage at ...

Editor’s note: This is an occasional letter Paul has been writing – since 1997 – to his now young-adult grandchildren.

Every February, Black History Month invites Americans to honor the giants of the civil rights movement. We commemorate them in speeches and street names, reassuring ourselves that their struggles belong safely to the past. But history tells a less comforting story. We tend to celebrate Black moral courage only after it has been stripped of urgency — after its disruptions have been neutralized ...

Who gets to be “American”? In the United States, it’s become a fiery political question with life-or-death consequences. On one side is Team MAGA, for whom “America” means the U.S. and “American” signifies a U.S. citizen — in many of their minds, specifically a native-born, white, Christian U.S. citizen. They routinely deny that the category of “American,” even if limited to meaning ...

Although he didn't get the nomination, the Rev. Jesse Jackson thrilled on the 1988 campaign trail and at the convention.

I never imagined I’d miss being lied to by George W. Bush and his henchmen.