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Listen to and follow ‘The Opinions’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube | iHeartRadio President-elect Donald Trump has said that as president, he will negotiate an end to [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack President-elect Donald Trump is inheriting a blood-soaked war in Ukraine. He has pledged to put a swift end to the carnage. Mr. Trump hasn't explained his [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack I voted for Kamala Harris, even though I think that places me on the wrong side of history. Given Ms. Harris's competition, I calculated that voting [...]

Cindy Jager was the lone worker on duty in the crammed aisles of an old-fashioned variety store overflowing with hardware and party supplies and fake pumpkins. When I came across [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack If you're cheering on the charges brought against Colin Gray, the father of our nation's latest school shooting suspect, it's worth asking yourself how, exactly, he [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack and Juan Carlos NÜe del Cid watched his neighborhood come back to life from the seat of his wheelchair. This tight row of cinder-block houses with [...]

Nöe del Cid watched his neighborhood come back to life from the seat of his wheelchair. This tight row of cinder-block houses with barred windows and corrugated metal roofs formed, [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack The elephant in the room will be impossible to ignore when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel addresses Congress on Wednesday, turning attention to the bloody [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack It's high school graduation season. Time to cheer the teenage achievers (especially the overachievers) and send them off to campus adventures and incipient adulthood. This year, [...]

It's high school graduation season. Time to cheer the teenage achievers (especially the overachievers) and send them off to campus adventures and incipient adulthood. This year, though, I want to [...]

It was the pictures of Palestinians swimming and sunning at a Gaza beach that rubbed Yehuda Shlezinger, an Israeli journalist, the wrong way. Stylish in round red glasses and a [...]

It was the pictures of Palestinians swimming and sunning at a Gaza beach that rubbed Yehuda Shlezinger, an Israeli journalist, the wrong way. Stylish in round red glasses and a [...]

Standing over a tiny bundle wrapped in a sheet on a hospital bed, a young father drapes his hand across his face in despair. Mousa Salem, a Gaza photographer who [...]

As the mother of a school shooter, Jennifer Crumbley must live with a reputation whose stains can never wash clean. Hunched in a Michigan courtroom these past weeks, Ms. Crumbley [...]

With the question of whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza now before the International Court of Justice, the Biden administration has struck a tone of glib dismissal. ''Meritless'' seems [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack With the question of whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza now before the International Court of Justice, the Biden administration has struck a tone of [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack and Samar Hazboun The men came alone that morning, leaving families and sheep behind, and climbed the hill to see what was left of their village. [...]

The men came alone that morning, leaving families and sheep behind, and climbed the hill to see what was left of their village. On the sun-bleached crest, they found a [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack Before she died in 2013, Dolours Price, a Provisional Irish Republican Army guerrilla, started granting interviews. She described planting I.R.A. bombs and driving people to their [...]

Before she died in 2013, Dolours Price, a Provisional Irish Republican Army guerrilla, started granting interviews. She described planting I.R.A. bombs and driving people to their executions, smuggling explosives and [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack Getting bombed from the sky is a particular horror: The sense that death hangs quite literally over your head, invisible until it's too late, and maybe [...]

A chill has come into the air at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. Seasonal gold suddenly streaks the leaves, and a sharpened wind rattles the bamboo, and all around the panda [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack and Rob Stothard John and Michael Finucane were children in 1989 when paramilitary gunmen smashed in the front door with a sledgehammer in the middle of [...]

John and Michael Finucane were children in 1989 when paramilitary gunmen smashed in the front door with a sledgehammer in the middle of Sunday dinner and opened fire. Their father, [...]

NOTTINGHAM, Md. -- Agnes Torregoza came to this country when she was a toddler, brought from the Philippines by her parents. Her mother found a teaching job in the Baltimore [...]

The ladies of ''The View'' were in high spirits. A piece of news they'd been hankering for had broken at last: President Biden, a revered figure around their talk show [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack and Mike Osborne The U.S.-Mexico border was full of uncertainty in the days before May 11. Title 42, the Trump administration-crafted health ordinance that had been [...]

The U.S.-Mexico border was full of uncertainty in the days before May 11. Title 42, the Trump administration-crafted health ordinance that had been invoked millions of times to turn migrants [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack Covid had just reached American shores on Feb. 9, 2020, when Newt Gingrich invited Anthony Fauci, the longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Russel Neiss glanced down at his Apple Watch. The screen glowed bright red, warning of something he already knew: Though he was sitting stock still, waiting [...]

Christmas is upon us. Candy season is about to reach its peak. It won't end, though; it never ends. Valentine hearts already nudge against the dwindling supply of Santas in [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack For decades, the United States and China have each treated the other's ideology as a kind of infection. Then came an actual virus. The pandemic has [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack It was a big deal that Reality Winner's probation officer let her travel from Texas to her sister's house in North Carolina over Thanksgiving. She is, [...]

For decades, the United States and China have each treated the other's ideology as a kind of infection. Then came an actual virus. The pandemic has been a testing ground [...]

It was a big deal that Reality Winner's probation officer let her travel from Texas to her sister's house in North Carolina over Thanksgiving. She is, after all, a traitor, [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack EL PASO - The Rio Grande ran thin through downtown, slimy and clay-colored from recent rains, coursing along concrete banks and through tangles of wildflowers, a [...]

EL PASO -- The Rio Grande ran thin through downtown, slimy and clay-colored from recent rains, coursing along concrete banks and through tangles of wildflowers, a liquid boundary marking the [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack WASHINGTON - America, you have probably heard, is on the edge of collapse. In the ideological death match described by President Biden as a 'battle for [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is officially back in good standing, having spent his summer putting the finishing touches on a wildly successful [...]

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is officially back in good standing, having spent his summer putting the finishing touches on a wildly successful reputation rehabilitation. The kingdom's [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack In this restive age of unprecedented human displacement, 100 million people have fled disaster and oppression to try their luck in a world that's increasingly tired [...]

In this restive age of unprecedented human displacement, 100 million people have fled disaster and oppression to try their luck in a world that's increasingly tired of dealing with them. [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack It took me so long to catch Covid-19 that by the time the virus finally struck, I'd started to assume I'd already had it or, better [...]

ROBSTOWN, Texas -- Le Roy Torres came home from his deployment in Iraq with a sickness he could neither explain nor shake: crushing headaches, fogs of vertigo, an increasingly harsh [...]

It started with a weekday interview in an office near the Moscow River. The man was a murderer, it was said, but when I asked about the crime, he smirked [...]

Byline: Megan K. Stack It started with a weekday interview in an office near the Moscow River. The man was a murderer, it was said, but when I asked about [...]

Tens of thousands are still hoping for rescue, with priority recently being given to Americans over Afghan allies, according to a U.S. official and those involved in the effort. As [...]

While profiling Behrouz Boochani, the story of the detention where he and others were held was underpinned by a sinister and sorrowful mood that ran through every person I interviewed. [...]