Danny Hakim

1 month ago | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Danny Hakim

How Civil Society and Sport Can Spark a Global Wave of PeaceRabbi Jonathan Sacks once drew a profound distinction between optimism and hope. Optimism, he said, is the belief that things will improve. Hope, however, is the conviction that together, we can make them better. That difference has inspired many to use civic engagement and sport as tools to connect people across borders and beliefs to make a better future.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Danny Hakim |David Chen

Clamoring to capitalize on the MAGA base's excitement over Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, Republican officials in more than a dozen states have moved to start their own versions. But they want everyone to know they've already spent years cutting costs. "We were DOGE before DOGE was cool," Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said recently. Or as Gov. Kevin Stitt put it in a social media post: "We've been DOGE'ing in Oklahoma before it was cool." Then there was Gov.

Feb 2, 2025 | nytimes.com | Shawn Hubler |Alexandra Berzon |Soumya Karlamangla |Thomas Fuller |Danny Hakim

Dave Gomberg had been watching the wind, his concern mounting. A veteran fire weather specialist at the National Weather Service, he understood the high and low pressure systems that ginned up the infamous Santa Anas that blew periodically through Southern California. This wasn't that.

Jan 28, 2025 | nytimes.com | Jesus Jimenez |Kate Selig |Amy Graff |Zach Montague |Catrin Einhorn |Ivan Penn | +9 more

Jan 26, 2025 | seattletimes.com | Danny Hakim |Ivan Penn |Blacki Migliozzi |K.K. Rebecca Lai |K.K. Rebecca Lai

LOS ANGELES — Early on the evening of Jan. 7, a resident of a neighborhood of homes backed up against the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California saw what he described as a bright white light and then a small fire at the base of an electrical tower up in Eaton Canyon. Another neighbor reported that his lights flickered a few minutes before he saw fire underneath the tower.