In July, Eric Adams narrowly won the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York, making him the odds-on favorite to win in November. And he won the nomination by running directly against the verities of today’s progressives: asserting that the police are the answer, not the problem; that “defund the police” misjudged what communities of color actually want; that Democrats […]
Read moreMore from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “Bitcoin Cosplay Is Getting Real,” by Binyamin Appelbaum (Sunday Review, Sept. 19): What a sad and sour portrait Mr. Appelbaum paints of Bitcoin. In their brief existence, cybercurrencies like Bitcoin have grown into a $2 trillion market (about the same size as Apple), spawned entire new industries (non-fungible tokens, cybermining), led to […]
Read moreBy Robert Wexler Mr. Wexler is president of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace in Washington, D.C., and a former Democratic representative of Florida. It would be a mistake to conclude that the sky is falling on the U.S.-Israel relationship or that the Democratic Party has distanced itself from Israel simply because a handful of progressive members […]
Read more(Reuters) -British software automation company Blue Prism Group agreed on Tuesday to a 1.1 billion pound ($1.50 billion) takeover offer from American private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. The London-listed company, whose customers include automaker Daimler, e-commerce firm eBay and Britain’s NHS, said it plans to recommend that shareholders vote in favour of the 1,125 pence-per-share bid. The offer represents […]
Read moreSited outside Toa Payoh’s town centre, Lorong 8 is shaped a bit like an elephant trying to make a break into the inner circle. It is hemmed in by Braddell Road and the Central Expressway, and boasts a motley mix of older flats – mostly built in the 1970s and 1980s – polyclinics, funeral homes, car workshops and depots. It […]
Read moreI got in a bit of a dust-up online recently for concluding that vaccine hesitance and resistance to masking were not uncommon among health care workers — and that it wasn’t surprising. I based my conclusion on vaccine hesitancy on some personal experience — a nurse at my vaccine site was very vocal about refusing the vaccine — and on […]
Read moreMore from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “Skip Booster Shots. Give Vaccines to Africa,” by Matshidiso Moeti (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 20): Dr. Moeti is to be congratulated for her excellent essay drawing attention to the growing Covid-19 vaccine inequity. Covid-19, perhaps more than any other event in our history, is demonstrating that we are a genuine global community. […]
Read moreWe’re covering Biden’s call to shore up the global response to the pandemic and some signs of trouble for China’s economy. Biden urges the world to ‘go big’ on Covid President Biden on Wednesday called on leaders, pharmaceutical executives and civil society organizations to forge a global plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking at a virtual Covid-19 summit organized […]
Read moreBy Zachary D. Carter Mr. Carter, a financial journalist, is the author of a recent book about the life and politics of John Maynard Keynes. At the close of 1933, The New York Times published an open letter from the British economist John Maynard Keynes to President Franklin Roosevelt offering both high praise and a dire warning. In the first […]
Read moreWe’re covering President Biden’s bid to reassure allies at the U.N. and new data on the Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine booster. Biden makes his U.N. debut President Biden delivered his first address to the annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. in New York City amid strong doubts about his ability to restore U.S. global leadership after the Trump […]
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