Opinion

World leaders have a chance to fix climate warming

This has been a year marked by terrifying news about climate change: extreme weather, massive wildfires, persistent drought in some areas and catastrophic flooding in others.The sense of impending doom was made official when the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned ...

Opinion

The most important message of Trump impeachment

The core of Trump’s argument is a novel interpretation of the law: Whatever the president did, it’s not impeachable. Trial lawyers have an adage: If the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If the law is on your side, pound the law. If neither is on your side, pound the table.In the ...

Opinion

Why Trump’s Senate trial is historical

The fix is in. The jury is anything but impartial. The verdict is pretty much foreordained. But that isn’t what this trial will be about. The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is formally about a weighty constitutional question: Has Trump abused the powers of his office?But it...

Opinion

Here is what a Trump-Rouhani meeting might entail

I learnt that the hard way in 1980, when as a young reporter I was arrested by Revolutionary Guards in Isfahan for trying to find the 52 Americans who had been taken hostage at the US Embassy the year before.“You’re a spy,” my interrogator barked. “I’m a journalist,&rdq...