New York City has drastically reduced the number of criminal cases it pursues over serious fire safety violations, a review of court data shows, prompting worries about the rigor of…
Lately these kind of questions have surfaced in a new way in the controversies over transgenderism, and especially over the practice of medically suspending a different biological transformation — not…
When Roger Maris Jr. declared that Aaron Judge should be the single-season home run king with his 62nd blast and that “baseball should do something” to make it so, it…
The Securities and Exchange Commission is corrupt. The S.E.C. is politically motivated. Defund the S.E.C. Some shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp. have had it with the commission, the nation’s…
After a flurry of publicity and an internal investigation in which Mr. Bolsonaro appeared to threaten the journalist for testifying against him, the incident was largely forgotten. But the macho…
Two nuclear-armed states on a collision course with no obvious exit ramp. An erratic Russian leader using apocalyptic language — “if you want us to all meet in hell, it’s…
“Work” is maybe putting too neat of a bow onto what I actually mean, when considering the vast body of Loretta Lynn’s work. I mean that a life is something…
Case and Deaton contend that the ballots cast for Donald Trump by members of the white working class “are surely not for a president who will dismantle safety nets but…
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless on Wednesday for the development of click chemistry and bio-orthogonal chemistry. Dr. Bertozzi…
Yves here. Although a very tiny example of the thesis of article, your humble blogger can testify that there’s a great deal of commercial pressure to put data in the…