Author: Lance Garrison
To the Editor:Re “Supreme Court Appears Set to Rule That States Can’t Disqualify Trump” (front page, Feb. 9):In their arguments, Supreme Court justices expressed concerns regarding the possible consequences of Colorado’s attempts to remove Donald Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment. What we did not hear was a discussion of the possible consequences of allowing Mr. Trump to return to office.Perhaps those consequences deserve at least equal consideration, in light of what the nation experienced on Jan. 6. I believe that is what the authors of the 14th Amendment had in mind.James CulnanLa Crescenta, Calif.To the Editor:Chief Justice…
To the Editor:Re “In Biden’s Exoneration, Political Hazard Emerges,” by Michael D. Shear (news analysis, front page, Feb. 9):At first I thought, indignantly, who does the special counsel, Robert Hur, think he is to describe President Biden as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”? The nerve!But, on second thought, perhaps he is courageous and patriotic in contrast to members of Mr. Biden’s administration who, in an effort to protect the president, are putting our country at risk by their silence and complicity.This country cannot survive four more years of Donald Trump. The American people, including those of us…
There is also the observation by the Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands that mathematics is not complete, and because of its nature may never be. Mathematics, which attempts to define infinity, may itself be infinite.For theologians in antiquity, infinity was a property of God. Being finite, humans were believed to be incapable of conceiving of infinity on their own. God gave us the ability, they thought, as a means of understanding his nature. Theologians were even a little touchy about his sole possession of it. In “Leaders of the Reformation,” published in London in 1859, John Tulloch quotes Martin Luther, sounding…
The journey of Baby Plant is one that everyone participates in. One aunt has already looked up the T.S.A. airline regulations around domestic plant transport (“As long as you put it under your seat or in the overhead bin, you’re good!”). Later, another aunt helps me pack the plant in a tall, stiff paper bag to protect its fragile leaves during the flight. All of this draws my family closer around me, even as I prepare to leave them again for California.My gung gung never traveled much after immigrating from China. The last big trip he made was up to…
In January of 2020, the company announced it had raised $161 million in a funding round, the largest publicly disclosed investment for a company making cultivated meat.Steve Molino is a principal at Clear Current Capital, an early-stage venture fund focused on sustainable food and an early backer of BlueNalu (cell-grown bluefin tuna, a reported $118.3 million raised). He’s no stranger to the practice of placing big bets with limited information, but even so, he was amazed to see the way money poured into the industry. “There were no real numbers to pull from that allowed anyone to say, ‘Wait a…
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’“If only we had a partner for peace.”That’s been the refrain in the Israel-Palestinian conflict for as long as I’ve followed it. But the truth is you don’t need just a partner — you need two partners able to deliver at the same time.So you could see it as a tragedy of history that Salam Fayyad joined the Palestinian Authority in 2002, at the height of the second intifada, just as Israeli society shifted hard to the right.[You can listen to this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify,…
Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicWhat do Lady Diana’s wedding, the “Survivor” first-season finale and Prince’s 2007 Super Bowl halftime show have in common? They were huge cultural moments that brought millions of Americans together. In an era of streaming, social media bubbles and sharp political divides, are unifying events like these becoming relics?On today’s episode, the hosts make a case for the secular ritual of the Super Bowl and ask whether we need more mass cultural events to bring Americans together.(A full transcript of this episode will be available within 24 hours…
On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit announced its decision in the case of the United States v. Trump, on the question of the former president’s immunity — or lack thereof — to federal criminal prosecution. The panel isn’t having it.“We cannot accept that the office of the presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter,” the opinion reads. “Former President Trump lacked any lawful discretionary authority to defy federal criminal law and he is answerable in court for his conduct,” the judges add.Of course, this…
Out of the more than three million attempted crossings by undocumented migrants at the southern border in fiscal year 2023, the roughly 2.5 million who got through have created a tremendous fiscal burden on our border as well as in cities and states not only in the Southwest but also in the Midwest and Northeast. Many of these migrants have joined an underclass of workers whom employers have over the decades exploited mercilessly to bring down wages in farming, meatpacking, construction and other vulnerable occupations. At the same time, the ease with which these undocumented migrants have gained passage has…
By Lavern McDonald, as told to Hallie LevineI was diagnosed with stage IV inoperable lung cancer in 2018. It has been a long, hard journey. But thanks to my care team and innovative treatments, I have been able to turn this deadly condition into a chronic disease. Here’s what I want others to know.It took 7 months for me to get my diagnosis. Instinctively, I knew that something was not right. I experienced shortness of breath when I walked up subway stairs, for example, and had stabs of pain under my heart. I passed out while a technician performed a…