NotableThere is a way forward after Minneapolis. “Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection are conducting forceful operations in American communities. They should reassess their current tactics.” — Mike Lawler, a Republican, represents New York’s 17th Congressional District The Trump fantasy is killing us. “Yes, hotness is a fantasy and, decades later, Trump is still selling it.” — Carlos Lozada, Opinion columnist U.S. intervention in Iran will stop the regime from killing us. “Iranians are not asking for foreign tanks to roll down the streets of Tehran. They are asking for the world to stop acting as if the only options are occupation or indifference.” — Masih Alinejad, the author of “The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran” Spotlight
We Were Headed Back to a Great Powers Conflict Anyway“What we are in part seeing now is that the great power states with export capacity in at least one area — the United States in natural gas and China in rare earths — are willing to use resources as a geopolitical weapon. That is also destabilizing.” — Helen Thompson, a professor of political economy at Cambridge, in an interview ICYMIIt’s time to fight for our right to bear witness. “Now that our phones are the primary weapons of today’s information war, we should be as zealous about our right to bear phones as we are about our right to bear arms. To adopt the language of Second Amendment enthusiasts, perhaps the only thing that can eventually stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a camera.” — Julia Angwin, a contributing Opinion writer Listen
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In Your WordsRe: “The End of NATO Is Coming, and That’s No Disaster” Americans are going to find themselves, once again, pariahs in Europe. The Ugly American is uglier than ever before, and rightfully so. I couldn’t be more ashamed and embarrassed by Trump and his acolytes and I wouldn’t expect to be treated with anything other than disdain by our once close NATO allies. The Winter Olympics might turn out to be a foreshadowing of what’s coming for Americans traveling across the pond.— A comment posted by Gina from Denver Read more comments on the story here and check out our Letters to the Editor. We hope you’ve enjoyed this newsletter, which is made possible through subscriber support. Subscribe to The New York Times.
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