There is no justification here. There is only the recitation of a pitiless history that is buried under official clichés. After 9/11, the Bush administration decided to ignore its own history.

It’s mean, all right—also myopic, pitiless, and deliberately ugly, and it leaves you with no moral. I like it a lot.

The war on Gaza is of course primarily a war on those who are being murdered, starved and murdered when they try not to die ...

Philip Roth’s storied career — which took off with the publication of “Goodbye Columbus” in 1959 and came to a close 32 books later with 2010’s “Nemesis” — is in part a story of an ...

Column April 4, 2023 Want to Turn the Pitiless March of Gentrification Into a Parable of Progress? The New York Times shows just how it’s done.

A man accused of helping to murder his six-year-old son has told a jury he “probably” valued his new partner’s love and affection over the welfare of his child.