Month: November 2023

Lt Gene Walker was 27 when he was killed in heavy fighting near the German-Belgian border in 1944.

They are coming at this from dramatically different places. Iowa is make or break for Mr. DeSantis, who has gone all in on the state. This makes it especially unsettling…

Then there are the books — the new biographies and deconstructions and collected interviews. He permeates our cultural oxygen like a latter-day Shakespeare. As with Shakespeare, his words are often…

World’s largest animal rediscovered in Seychelles after being wiped out by hunting Metro (furzy) The Most Powerful Cosmic Ray Since the Oh-My-God Particle Puzzles Scientists Nature The sordid lessons of…

Yves here. Recover from your Thanksgiving excesses with an intellectual treat, in the form of a talk with what I suspect are favorite economists (normally an oxymoron!) for many of…

Yves here. A rare bit of cheery climate change news. Housing is an understudied and not surprisingly not-trivial contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. It turns out there’s low hanging fruit…

Russia launched the largest drone attack it has ever directed at the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, before dawn on Saturday, sending wave after wave of drones packed with explosives toward a…

“Let’s light it up!” the actress Jennifer Lawrence said on Monday night as she helped to reveal the holiday windows and kick off the annual lights show at Saks Fifth…

More women and children have been reported killed in Gaza in less than two months than the roughly 7,700 civilians documented as killed by U.S. forces and their international allies…

In Peachtree City, Ga., golf carts are everywhere, giving young people in particular an early chance to take life by the wheel. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America defines…