Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts at the Make Progress National Summit, a gathering of young activists in Washington. Credit... Christopher Gregory/The New York Times After Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke at a luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif., last month, women from the audience swarmed…

Paul Krugman Plutocrats Feeling Persecuted Robert Benmosche, the chief executive of the American International Group, said something stupid the other day. And we should be glad, because his comments help highlight an important but rarely discussed cost of extreme income inequality — namely, the rise…

Seymour Hersh exposed the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Photograph: Wally McNamee/Corbis Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to…

Matt Lehman Last year was a busy one for public giveaways to the National Football League. In Virginia, Republican Governor Bob McDonnell, who styles himself as a budget-slashing conservative crusader, took $4 million from taxpayers’ pockets and handed the money to the Washington Redskins, for the…

Video of Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, discussing the Holocaust in an interview with Charlie Rose recorded on Wednesday in New York. In an interview with Charlie Rose of CBS News broadcast on Thursday, Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, rejected accusations that he had not clearly…

President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, center, spoke about nuclear disarmament at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday. Credit... Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times UNITED NATIONS — Descending on New York this week in a Shiite cleric’s traditional fine wool robes, Iran’s president, Hassan…

The Public Editor NEWS photographs come and go. Here’s a mayoral candidate voting. Here’s a tennis player kissing a trophy. Here’s the president giving a speech. But two recent front-page images in The Times, both related to the deadly crisis in Syria, were something far more powerful. Appearing…

The bomb that nearly exploded over North Carolina was 260 times more powerful than the device which devasted Hiroshima in 1945. Photo: Three Lions/Getty Images A secret document, published in declassified form for the first time by the Guardian today, reveals that the US Air Force came dramatically…

Candace Smith Sep 13, 2013 · 5 min read I went into my neighborhood beauty supply store on a mission. Focused and on a schedule, I needed to get in and get out as soon as I could. There was one thing and one thing only on my shopping list: a “piece” (fake hair used to augment one’s natural hair or…

Tyler Hicks, a New York Times staff photographer, was nearby when gunmen opened fire at an upscale Nairobi mall, killing at least 39 people in one of the worst terrorist attacks in Kenya’s history. He was able to go inside the mall as the attack unfolded. His conversation with James Estrin has been…

Talk to the Newsroom: Week in Review MARCH 1, 2009 Dave Smith, deputy editor of Week in Review , is answering questions from readers March 2-6, 2009. Questions may be e-mailed to askthetimes@nytimes.com . Most recent answer: click here. Mr. Smith was appointed to his current position in June 2004.…

The Justice Department made a long-overdue disclosure late Friday: Last year when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder boasted about the successes that a high-profile task force racked up pursuing mortgage fraud, the numbers he trumpeted were grossly overstated. We're not talking small differences…

See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key. For almost two years, Poitras had been working on a documentary about surveillance, and she…

Dr. Elizabeth O’Bagy, Syria expert, made quite an impression on Senator John McCain. During Senate hearings, the former Presidential candidate quoted at length from her recent Wall Street Journal op-ed painting a rosy picture of a mostly secular, pro-Western anti-Assad insurgency. “John, do you…

Rashomon presents a vignette and subsequent investigation through the perspectives of participants, leaving the audience to wonder: What did just happen? What did I see? It's an interesting examination of the difficulty of knowing, especially based on signals and reporting. Something is happening in…

Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, in Geneva last week. He has spent a career body-blocking the United States. Credit... Pool photo by Larry Downing MOSCOW — Secretary of State John Kerry had just made an offhand remark about how President Bashar al-Assad of Syria could avoid a military…

Dilma Rousseff: 'Do I look happy, Mr Obama?' Photograph: Eraldo Peres T uesday's cancellation of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's state visit to the White House, scheduled for next month, came as little surprise. Documents leaked by Edward Snowden, and reported by Glenn Greenwald and TV Globo,…

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has scrapped a scheduled state visit to the White House amid Brazilian outrage over news that the U.S. spied on her and a Brazilian oil company. The cancellation of the Oct. 23 visit is the first public diplomatic fallout prompted by the revelations of National…

WASHINGTON — House Republicans narrowly pushed through a bill on Thursday that slashes billions of dollars from the food stamp program, over the objections of Democrats and a veto threat from President Obama. The vote set up what promised to be a major clash with the Senate and dashed hopes for…

BAGHDAD — As a former interpreter for the American military, and as a gay man, Hassan says he is a focus of frequent discrimination by his fellow Iraqis. That is why Hassan, who asked to be identified only by his middle name because he fears for his safety, does not see any future in his own…

Pope Francis' surprising comments came in a lengthy interview in which he criticized the church for putting dogma before love, and for prioritizing moral doctrines over serving the poor and marginalized. Credit... Riccardo De Luca/Associated Press See how this article appeared when it was originally…

Photo Douglas Braunstein, right, the former chief financial officer at JPMorgan Chase who is now vice chairman, testified on the trading losses in March on Capitol Hill. Credit Daniel Rosenbaum for The New York Times It’s an outcome that has vexed the public since the financial crisis of 2008. The…

( christopheradams/flickr ) There was a two-year period in my life I refer to as the Dark Ages. Although I've always enjoyed cereal at random hours, my evening consumption of Cocoa Puffs during that time was actually my breakfast. Wake-up alarms set for the PM were intentional, not accidental. And…

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s first two defense secretaries publicly questioned the administration’s handling of the Syrian crisis on Tuesday night and expressed skepticism about whether Russia can broker a deal to remove Syria’s chemical weapons. In a joint appearance in Dallas, both former…

Photo Lorie Meg Karlin, whose firm received commissions from MF Global. Credit Lisa Wiltse for The New York Times When MF Global collapsed in 2011, Lorie Meg Karlin’s brokerage company nearly disappeared along with it. The company, Managed Capital Advisory Group, cleared trades through MF Global and…

Sgt. Robert Gisevius, center, in 2007. He was one of four officers convicted in connection with a fatal shooting on a New Orleans bridge in the days after Hurricane Katrina. Credit... Dave Martin/Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Citing “grotesque prosecutorial misconduct” on the part of federal…

I n a valedictory interview with the Atlantic, Bloomberg uttered the single phrase that best encapsulates his worldview. Following the polls, he said, is not only “not ethical” but ineffective politics, “because people aren’t good at describing what is in their own interest.” They need the…

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Twenty-one years ago this month, on September 6, 1992, the decomposed body of Christopher McCandless was discovered by moose hunters just outside the northern boundary of Denali National Park. He had died inside a rusting bus that served as a makeshift shelter for trappers, dog mushers, and other…

Solicitor General Donald Verrilli and Sen. Dianne Feinstein have put federal prosecutors in quite a bind after they made public comments about the use of secret NSA surveillance in terrorism investigations. Now defense attorneys in a Florida case are turning the words of those top officials against…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry’s public assertions that moderate Syrian opposition groups are growing in influence appear to be at odds with estimates by U.S. and European intelligence sources and nongovernmental experts, who say Islamic extremists remain by far the fiercest…

Clockwise from left: James Morrow, Javier Flores, Jennifer Boatright and her son Jacob, Dale Agostini, and Nelly Moreira. Many police budgets depend on money from forfeiture. Photographs by Ashley Gilbertson / VII On a bright Thursday afternoon in 2007, Jennifer Boatright, a waitress at a Houston…

Snapshot | King Krule The Londoner Archy Marshall, better known by his latest stage name, King Krule , recorded his first demo at the age of 8. “I wrote about escaping the city,” he said, “living in the countryside, on a farm,” and about animals. “That’s kind of how Zoo Kid,” as he was called when…

The banks still drop income requirements and down payments to get more people into high-priced homes. What could possibly go wrong? Photo: Rui Vieira/PA Picture it: a hopeful young couple wants to buy a house. They've been reading stories about a housing recovery, and interest rates are low. They…

"We decided to settle it like men do when they've had a little bit too much to drink." Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California arm-wrestled Vladimir Putin back in the early 1990s, and it didn't go well. Rohrabacher told the story while speaking with 89.3 KPCC radio in California…

Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams has an ambitious new plan: to shift our daily reading habits away from consuming incremental news bites and towards engaging with enlightened ideas curated by an intelligent algorithm. Ordinarily, such a goal would seem utopian, were it not for the fact that Williams…

0 Shares Media Options Download Video Download Audio Get DVD Other Formats This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Donate 0 Shares This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Donate In a national address from the White House Tuesday night, President Obama announced he…

Op-Ed Contributor A Plea for Caution From Russia Credit... Oliver Munday MOSCOW — RECENT events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies. Relations…