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We took out a candle, lit it and finished our dinner. In darkness. In complete silence. On April 28, the so-called Great Blackout, one of the strangest days of our lives, left all of the Iberian Peninsula in the dark. For over 10 hours we were ...

We Should Play the Constitution Like a Piano

admin3 May 2025

Written in the 1780s, it both enlightens and confounds. Its brilliance is undiminished, but the intervening years make it feel distant, at times impossibly so, challenging modern interpreters to understand what an 18th-century text means today. Sadly ...

The Movie Deal That Made Hollywood Lose Its Mind

admin3 May 2025

In 2050, thanks to an advantageous deal he made with Warner Bros., Ryan Coogler will own the rights to “Sinners,” the Black Southern Gothic blockbuster he wrote and directed. The contract gave him final cut and a piece of the box office revenue right ...

Someone Should Tell Trump He’s About to Make the Trade Deficit Worse

admin3 May 2025

There are many reasons President Trump should not be pushing Congress to pass huge tax cuts, but here’s one you may not have heard: Budget deficits and trade deficits are twins. When the former go up, so, generally, do the latter. So at the same ...

When Deportation Occurs Without Trials

admin3 May 2025

More from our inbox: Harvard’s DefianceCuts to Meals on WheelsThe border wall in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in February.Credit...Alejandro Cegarra for The New York TimesTo the Editor: Re “Brushing Off Due Process for Migrants” (news analysis, front page ...

Our Dad, Leonard Bernstein, Would Want His Music Played at the Kennedy Center

admin2 May 2025

Our father, the composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, liked to tell us about the time Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis called to ask him to be the first executive director of the Kennedy Center in Washington, which was being built as a memorial to her ...

China Wants to Silence My Organization. Why Is Trump Doing It?

admin2 May 2025

In February 2020, weeks before Covid-19 paralyzed the world, the Radio Free Asia reporter Jane Tang received a panicked text from a source in Wuhan, China: “They are following me,” the message read. “I’m too scared to move.” Ms. Tang had been ...

What Medicaid Cuts Would Do to My Rural Hospital

admin2 May 2025

If you have ever felt stress after passing a highway sign warning, “No gas next 90 miles,” you understand the importance of my hospital. I am the chief executive of Lincoln Health, a 25-bed county-owned hospital in Hugo, Colo., a town of about 800 ...

Canada Needs a New Story

admin2 May 2025

This week, Canada’s Liberal Party pulled off an improbable, come-from-way-behind fourth-term win. There will be little time for the party or its leader, Prime Minister Mark Carney, to celebrate. Unlike a decade ago, when Justin Trudeau won in a ...

How to Survive the Trump Years With Your Spirit Intact

admin2 May 2025

I had forgotten how exhausting it is to live in Donald Trump’s world. He’s not only a political figure. He creates a psychological and social atmosphere that suffuses the whole culture — the airwaves, our conversations, our moods. If there is one ...