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It's no secret that rural Americans are angry with the Washington elite. Less discussed are some of the sensible reasons for it. For far too long, family farms have been [...]

Pascale Solages, an anti-corruption activist from Haiti, burst into tears of joy last month when she heard that the U.S. Treasury Department had finally slapped sanctions on Michel Martelly, a [...]

Byline: Farah Stockman Pascale Solages, an anti-corruption activist from Haiti, burst into tears of joy last month when she heard that the U.S. Treasury Department had finally slapped sanctions on [...]

No part of Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech Thursday night was more anticipated and scrutinized than her comments on the ongoing destruction of Gaza, an issue that attracted passionate protests both [...]

Byline: Farah Stockman Tens of thousands of people were expected to march on the Democratic National Convention to protest the loss of innocent lives in Gaza. But by early Monday [...]

Tens of thousands of people were expected to march on the Democratic National Convention to protest the loss of innocent lives in Gaza. But by early Monday afternoon, only a [...]

For weeks, the signs did not look good for Kamala Harris in Michigan. Literally. A digital billboard on the side of a barn, which I saw while driving to Grayling, [...]

This election season has been studded with stories about race, mainly because of dumb things that Donald Trump has said about “Black jobs” and Kamala Harris’s racial identity. But race [...]

If Maduro is forced to release polling data, he might have to admit defeat. The Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro wants the world to believe he won https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/world/americas/venezuela-election-results.html. But nobody should [...]

Byline: Farah Stockman Is America an idea or a homeland? That question lies at the heart of this roller coaster of a presidential race. It's about whether we Americans should [...]

Can Europe get on the same page with itself? That’s perhaps the biggest question lingering in the background of the NATO summit in Washington this week marking the 75th anniversary [...]

Byline: Farah Stockman What would Ike say now? Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, NATO's first supreme allied commander Europe, felt strongly that his mission was to get Europeans 'back on their military [...]

What would Ike say now? Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, NATO's first supreme allied commander Europe, felt strongly that his mission was to get Europeans ''back on their military feet'' -- not [...]

Byline: Farah Stockman Two months ago, world leaders gathered in Paris and said all the right words about the horror unfolding in Sudan, where a vicious civil war has stolen [...]

The best dinner party I've attended all year took place at a conference held at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, overlooking the San Francisco Bay. It was a [...]

There’s no denying that the executive order President Biden signed on Tuesday — significantly curtailing the number of asylum seekers allowed into the country — is a head-spinning reversal for [...]

I often tell my 8-year-old daughter that saying “sorry” doesn’t cut it if she continues the behavior that she’s apologizing for. It’s a basic lesson that kids learn. World leaders [...]

There aren’t a lot of things that make me optimistic about U.S.-China relations these days, but Nicholas Burns’s https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/public-leadership-management/rise-enormous-challenges-you-ambassador#ambassador-nicholas-burns-remarks-as-delivered on Wednesday to graduating students at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government [...]

The United Automobile Workers union fell short in its bid to unionize two Mercedes plants in Alabama on Friday but accomplished something historic nonetheless. Simply having the election — and [...]

Chris Gibbs, a farmer who raises soybeans, corn and cattle, spent much of his adult life as a leader of the Republican Party in Shelby County, Ohio. He rose from [...]

An already unbearable situation in Gaza is getting far worse, as hundreds of thousands of desperate Palestinian families flee an Israeli ground operation in Rafah, in southern Gaza. Aid groups [...]

If you caught the scathing takedown of the book ''White Rural Rage'' in The Atlantic, then you're aware of how intellectually dishonest it is to single out rural voters for [...]

If you caught the scathing takedown of the book “White Rural Rage” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/white-rural-rage-criticism/677967/, then you’re aware of how intellectually dishonest it is to single out rural voters for special contempt. [...]

President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela isn't even pretending to play fair anymore. In October, he promised to take steps toward holding free elections, including allowing the opposition to pick a [...]

I got my start in journalism covering the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, so the https://apnews.com/article/rwanda-genocide-anniversary-mass-graves-61fb69da1c44be82a9f85d193e91104f this Sunday feels personal to me. I spent months on end in the unadorned [...]

Los estadounidenses solían pensar que China era un lugar para hacer negocios y Latinoamérica, uno para vacacionar. Más recientemente, nuestros vecinos del sur son percibidos como una fuente de migrantes [...]

Byline: Farah Stockman Americans used to think of China as a place to do business and Latin America as a place to vacation. More recently, our neighbors to the south [...]

If you want to make a place truly unlivable, you don’t just bomb it and starve it. You also go after the human infrastructure — the people who can keep [...]

President Biden’s https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/us/politics/chips-act-grant-intel.html of $20 billion in grants and loans to Intel, the computer chip maker, understandably focused on the tens of thousands of American jobs he said would be [...]

Nikki Haley wasn’t the only one who dropped out this week. Dean Phillips, the Minnesota congressman who served as President Biden’s most formidable challenger, also ended his campaign. And after [...]

The new book “White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy,” by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, has been getting a lot of buzz, including a mention https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/opinion/white-rural-voters.html. It describes [...]

Betrayal is a powerful emotion, especially at the ballot box. Voters who feel betrayed tend to act like spurned lovers, punishing the offending party even if it means electing somebody [...]

Frustration in rural America, which has long felt left behind in federal attention and dollars, has been a major driver of right-wing populism. To counter that, the Biden administration has [...]

Amid boiling anger over the war in Gaza, the White House is sending a higher-level delegation. Every presidential election campaign fears an October surprise. President Biden's October surprise came a [...]

The Biden campaign has become so unwelcome in the Arab American community in southeastern Michigan that a meeting scheduled for Friday afternoon with Arab American leaders was hastily canceled after [...]

Iran’s decision to https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/world/middleeast/iran-missiles-pakistan-iraq.html on three relatively friendly neighbors this week shined a spotlight on the war in the Middle East — the one against the Islamic State, the remnants [...]

They met in the 1990s, at an event about the North American Free Trade Agreement, where they were the only people arguing against it. He was a conservative trade lawyer [...]

Byline: Farah Stockman They met in the 1990s, at an event about the North American Free Trade Agreement, where they were the only people arguing against it. He was a [...]

Byline: Farah Stockman and Cydni Elledge I found it online: a weary, five-bedroom American Foursquare house on a block in Detroit that had seen better days. The blue tarp over [...]

Byline: Farah Stockman They weren't bluffing. On Wednesday night, Senate Republicans made good on their threat to hold up military aid to key allies - Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan - [...]

Byline: Farah Stockman One reason that the idea of free trade has fallen out of fashion in recent years is the perception that trade agreements reflect the wishes of big [...]

One reason that the idea of free trade has fallen out of fashion in recent years is the perception that trade agreements reflect the wishes of big American corporations, at [...]

Byline: Farah Stockman A lunch meeting about China this summer at the Upper East Side headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations felt more like an Irish wake. A crowd [...]

Byline: Farah Stockman After the Israeli military killed his older brother in an airstrike in Gaza in 2014, Ahmed Alnaouq says, he almost lost his will to live. 'I sank [...]

Byline: Farah Stockman Rage is not a strategy. Israel has a right - and indeed a responsibility - to protect its people, recover its hostages and seek justice in the [...]

For far too long, too many Americans considered the border to be someone else's problem -- someone in Texas, maybe, or Arizona or California. People who didn't live near the [...]

Byline: Farah Stockman For far too long, too many Americans considered the border to be someone else's problem - someone in Texas, maybe, or Arizona or California. People who didn't [...]