Month: September 2023

Times editors have handpicked 11 stories for you to enjoy. Welcome to The Weekender. _____ Our Opinion section asked 16 writers — most of them respectable adults — about the…

At the end of 2001, not long after George W. Bush became president, there were 40 million people across the globe living with H.I.V./AIDS, which was usually a death sentence…

On Friday morning, just before writing this newsletter, I spoke to a conference of the Regional Science Association in Alicante, Spain. Notice the choice of preposition: “to,” not “at.” Given…

In late March, I visited La Paloma’s vast workshop on the fringe of the San Fernando Valley. Ron and his team, now led by his son, Edan, have installed every…

The professor of artificial intelligence was a rising star at Iran’s elite Sharif University of Technology. He gained wider fame for his vocal support of the women-led uprising that rocked…

When the college football season kicks off in earnest this Labor Day weekend, it will be a test to keep an eye on the ball. The focus for a few…

Jimmy Buffett awoke one morning last year in one of his many homes — he can’t remember which one, there are a lot of them — and a panic gripped…

While he was convicted on the assault and obstruction charges, he was acquitted of seditious conspiracy – a charge applied to defendants for plotting to overthrow the government or use…

Ta’Kiya Young, 21, appears to advance the car towards an Ohio officer before a single shot is fired.

The Utah vlogger’s malnourished son escaped to her neighbour’s home to seek help, police say.