Commando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Officials Say
Ukrainian soldiers in Novopil, Ukraine, in May. American and other allied special operations forces have trained with their Ukrainian counterparts for years.Credit...Ivor Prickett for The New York Times WASHINGTON — As Russian troops press ahead with a grinding campaign to seize eastern Ukraine, the nation’s ability to resist the onslaught depends more than ever on help from the United States and
U.S. Lacks a Clear Picture of Ukraine’s War Strategy, Officials Say (Published 2022)
WASHINGTON — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has provided near-daily updates of Russia’s invasion on social media; viral video posts have shown the effectiveness of Western weapons in the hands of Ukrainian forces; and the Pentagon has regularly held briefings on developments in the war. But despite the flow of all this news to the public, American intelligence agencies have less informati
Opinion | The War in Ukraine May Be Impossible to Stop. And the U.S. Deserves Much of the Blame.
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Opinion | The War in Ukraine Is Getting Complicated, and America Isn’t Ready
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Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe (Published 2021)
Early in the pandemic, when vaccines for the coronavirus were still just a glimmer on the horizon, the term “herd immunity” came to signify the endgame: the point when enough Americans would be protected from the virus so we could be rid of the pathogen and reclaim our lives. Now, more than half of adults in the United States have been inoculated with at least one dose of a vaccine. But daily vacc
Heating Up Culture Wars, France to Scour Universities for Ideas That ‘Corrupt Society’ (Published 2021)
President Emmanuel Macron and some of his top ministers have spoken out forcefully against what they see as a destabilizing influence from American campuses in recent months.Credit...Francois Mori/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images PARIS — Stepping up its attacks on social science theories that it says threaten France, the French government announced this week that it would launch an investigatio
The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000 (Published 2020)
Across the United States, at least 200,000 more people have died than usual since March, according to a New York Times analysis of estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is about 60,000 higher than the number of deaths that have been directly linked to the coronavirus. As the pandemic has moved south and west from its epicenter in New York City, so have the unusual pat
Remembering the 100,000 Lives Lost to Coronavirus in America (Published 2020)
The comments section is closed. To submit a letter to the editor for publication, write to letters@nytimes.com. By Dan Barry, Larry Buchanan, Clinton Cargill, Annie Daniel, Alain Delaquérière, Lazaro Gamio, Gabriel Gianordoli, Richard Harris, Barbara Harvey, John Haskins, Jon Huang, Simone Landon, Juliette Love, Grace Maalouf, Alex Matthews, Farah Mohamed, Steven Moity, Destinée-Charisse Royal, Ma
The American Mustache Ruffling Feathers in South Korea (Published 2020)
Ambassador Harry B. Harris Jr. defended his choice to wear a mustache, saying on Thursday that those who criticized it were “cherry-picking history.”Credit...Kat Wade/Getty Images SEOUL, South Korea — At a time of growing unease in the alliance between the United States and South Korea, a hairy diplomatic issue has surfaced: the American ambassador’s mustache, which has become an object of ridicul
‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims (Published 2019)
HONG KONG — The students booked their tickets home at the end of the semester, hoping for a relaxing break after exams and a summer of happy reunions with family in China’s far west. Instead, they would soon be told that their parents were gone, relatives had vanished and neighbors were missing — all of them locked up in an expanding network of detention camps built to hold Muslim ethnic minoritie
The Exhibit Lauded Freedom of Expression. It Was Silenced. (Published 2019)
The exhibition that was closed at the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Japan, included a statue symbolizing women forced into sexual slavery during World War II.Credit...The Yomiuri Shimbun, via Associated Press Images TOKYO — It was an exhibit meant to celebrate freedom of expression. Instead, freedom of expression was shut down. A long, bitter battle between Japan and South Korea over historical memor
In Japan, the Kit Kat Isn’t Just a Chocolate. It’s an Obsession. - The New York Times
In Japan, the Kit Kat Isn’t Just a Chocolate. It’s an Obsession. The story of how Kit Kats, once a British chocolate export, became a booming business from Hokkaido to Tokyo — and changed expectations about what a candy bar could be. By TEJAL RAO OCT. 23, 2018 Photographs by SPENCER LOWELL The seven-story Don Quijote megastore in the Shibuya district of Tokyo is open 24 hours a day, but it’s hard
96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2 Million (Published 2018)
Sylvia Bloom, a legal secretary from Brooklyn, worked for the same law firm for 67 years while quietly amassing a fortune. In her will, she left more than $8 million for college scholarships. Even by the dizzying standards of New York City philanthropy, a recent $6.24 million donation to the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side was a whopper — the largest single gift from an individual t
Opinion | Shinzo Abe: Solidarity Against the North Korean Threat (Published 2017)
A television screen in Tokyo’s Akihabara district showing a report on North Korea’s ballistic missile test over northern Japan.Credit...Toru Yamanaka/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images North Korea has targeted Japan in particular by abducting many innocent Japanese citizens, including a 13-year-old girl who was abducted in 1977. Most of them have been held in North Korea since the 1970s and 1980s
Opinion | Socialism’s Future May Be Its Past (Published 2017)
One hundred years after Lenin’s sealed train arrived at Finland Station and set into motion the events that led to Stalin’s gulags, the idea that we should return to this history for inspiration might sound absurd. But there was good reason that the Bolsheviks once called themselves “social democrats.” They were part of a broad movement of growing parties that aimed to fight for greater political
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