The letter from a bipartisan group of senators wanting to know why President Trump fired the inspector general of the intelligence community deserves an answer. Our suggestion would be for Mr. Trump to send the noble senators — who include Charle...
“If there were no United Nations we’d have to invent one” is an overused Turtle Bay cliche worth examining now, as the UN is MIA in the face of the worst global crisis since its founding 75 years ago. As a pandemic threatens the globe with loss...
The death of John Prine, a survivor of cancer who was lost Tuesday to the coronavirus, takes from us one of America’s greatest troubadours of what we call the Vietnam generation. We were almost exactly the same age and had been in the army at roughly the same time, albeit in different theaters. Yet, in an irony, we failed to fully appreciate Prine’s art until we were educated by our children.
The most inane of the many fatuous arguments raging over the administration’s handling of the coronavirus is the debate about whether the Democrats distracted President Trump with the impeachment effort when he would otherwise have been raising th...
Queen Elizabeth’s address to her subjects in respect of the corona virus stirs our republican spirits. It’s not that she unloaded a lot of information that Britons, or Americans, were heretofore lacking. It’s hard to reckon that she had much more of a briefing than a newspaper editor could get. Nor was it her eloquence, though her remarks were well-enough crafted.
Secretary General Antonio Guterres of the United Nations is appealing countries of the world to unite under a global ceasefire to beat the coronavirus. It would be nice, wouldn’t it? “Today I am calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corne...
President Trump has an opportunity both to defeat the novel coronavirus and to gain advantage for the United States in the competition with China for global influence, which predates both the coronavirus crisis and the Trump administration. It flared...
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
March 28, 2020
The Canadian government’s management of the coronavirus crisis, if judged by what it does and its leaders say, is completely inadequate. Their relief bill is probably not sufficient in quantum or in efficiency for those unemployed or under-employed a...
The death today of the Novominsker rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, will lend a sad note to the Passover seders of tens of thousands of families the world over. The rabbi, a towering figure in the world of Torah Judaism, was carried off from his home in...
The prayers of millions of Americans, including all of us here at The New York Sun, will be this evening with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has been battling the novel coronavirus and, with his condition suddenly worsening, has just been moved into an intensive care unit. Reports say that the premier is conscious and that the move was taken in case he has to go on a respirator. He has, though, deputized the foreign secretary to act for him when needed. The fight for his life appears to be on.
What a remarkable moment the accession of Sir Keir Starmer as the new leader of Britain’s Labor Party is turning out to be. On the day he emerged as the successor to Jeremy Corbyn, under whom an anti-Jewish strain had seemed to run unchecked in Labor, Mr. Starmer issued a letter apologizing to the Jewish community of Britain. We can’t recall anything quite like it.
By EDWARD LAMPERT, Special to the Sun
April 6, 2020
America has been responding to the Covid-19 pandemic like it’s a hurricane — stay inside until it passes. A more constructive and realistic approach would be to treat it like driving a car — find rules that reduce the risk. Ordinary life durin...
The new Democratic pre-electoral chorus is already audibly arising like a Wagnerian finale from the largely hidden choir. President Trump, they intone, bungled this and must be investigated for his incompetence which is costing countless American...
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
March 31, 2020
Writing on President’s Day last month, I engaged in the fundamentally disagreeable activity of taking issue with people with whom I always wish to agree and generally do, on the still unsettled subject of Franklin D. Roosevelt. My contention for man...
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