Aleksei Navalny knew he would be arrested as soon as he stepped foot on Russian soil, and he had no illusion what this could mean. Mr. Navalny had been abroad since August, after all, because President Vladimir Putin’s political goons had poisoned
To the Editor: Re “Older People Who Want Shots Run Into a Tangle of Red Tape” (front page, Jan. 15): Getting an appointment to get the Covid-19 vaccination in New York State involves multiple websites, links and surveys. One has to be
Here we go again. For the second time in 12 years a newly elected Democratic president is inheriting an economy in deep distress. And while it’s hard to focus on such things after last week’s Trumpist putsch, a lot depends on whether
To the Editor: President Trump and the Republicans have raised millions of dollars since the election, peddling their false narrative about voter fraud. Now that their supporters have ransacked the Capitol, they say that the time has come for national healing and
By 1949, he’s back in Stickney, appointed as a patrolman on the police force. This is also the year he marries my grandmother. The township still has 522 acres of tillable farmland, 27 apple trees bearing fruit. He makes “a career of
To the Editor: Re “Impeached: Trump, After Inciting Rampage in Capitol, Is First President to Face 2nd Senate Trial” (front page, Jan. 14): Congress had no choice but to impeach the president after his seditious act to incite a riot to overturn
China’s global stature has suffered since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, even though the country has fared better than many major states in managing the crisis. In a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in 14 industrialized countries in the
Not every Republican senator nearing retirement exhibited Mr. Romney or Mr. McCain’s bravery. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, an octogenarian former presidential candidate himself, voted not only against impeaching Mr. Trump last January, but against even subpoenaing witnesses. Courage cannot be explained by
Early in the morning on Jan. 6, Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio woke up pleasantly surprised. Democratic victories in both Georgia Senate runoffs the night before meant he was suddenly poised to become chairman of the Senate Banking and Housing Committee, whose
But in the final analysis, neither Facebook nor Twitter is an Arby’s; they are points of entry to a de facto public square that is increasingly controlled by a handful of private companies. “Facebook and Twitter have no major rivals in their
To the Editor: Re “The Fatal Loneliness of Nursing Homes” (editorial, Dec. 30): I applaud you for calling attention to loneliness as a public health issue. Having studied loneliness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, I am concerned that