With Executive Order, White House Tries to Balance A.I.’s Potential and Peril
How do you regulate something that has the potential to both help and harm people, that touches every sector of the economy and that is changing so quickly even the…
U.S. Looks to Allay European Fears of a Subsidy War
The Biden administration is trying to ease European concerns about America’s new climate and tax law, which some allies view as a protectionist industrial policy that threatens their economies. More…
Hezbollah Hesitates as Israel Strikes Gaza
In Lebanon, there is little appetite for war, as the country suffers through a crippling economic crisis. Regionally, if Hezbollah opened a second front, it could prompt the United States…
What to Watch for as the Federal Reserve Meets This Week
Strong consumer spending may keep officials alert. While the Fed is dealing with the possibility that higher market-based interest rates will weigh on the economy, they are also confronting another…
Opinion | The Memories That Feed Distrust in the Middle East
Moshe Lavi, whose relatives have been taken hostage by Hamas, recently talked to a group of New York Times journalists about his family’s agony. His pained voice turned to anger…
Opinion | American Muslims Are in a Painful, Familiar Place
When President Biden landed in Tel Aviv days after Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre of more than 1,400 people, he told an audience of Israelis that this was not just Israel’s…
Opinion | On This Issue, the House G.O.P. ‘Whack Jobs’ Have a Point
Just days before winning the race for speaker of the House last week, Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana sent a letter to colleagues laying out a plan to complete the…
School Cellphone Bans Are Trending. Do They Work?
Earlier this year, Florida passed a law requiring public schools statewide to ban student cellphone use during class time. The new state rules reflect an intensifying global crackdown on young…
In Chicago, a Neighborhood of Immigrants Is Conflicted About More Arrivals
For generations, Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood has been made and remade by successive waves of immigrants. So many arrived from Poland that Pope John Paul II, who was Polish, paid…
The Busy Doctor Who Gave Himself Another Job: Tracking Nazi Loot
“My wife, Sandy, and I have five grandchildren,” he said, “and it’s the tradition to wrap each child in it at their birth, be it a boy or girl.” Hayden’s…