Here’s Why You Can’t Afford an Electric Car | naked capitalism
Yves here. This high level piece on electric cars in the US focuses on the main obstacle to greater uptake, which are prices. Mind you, that does not mean that…
ISIS Affiliate Linked to Moscow Attack Has Global Ambitions
Five years ago this month, an American-backed Kurdish and Arab militia ousted Islamic State fighters from a village in eastern Syria, the group’s last sliver of territory. Since then, the…
4 Men Showing Signs of Beating Charged With Terrorism After Moscow Attack
The four men suspected of carrying out a bloody attack on a concert hall near Moscow, killing at least 137 people, were arraigned in a district court late Sunday and…
Big Republican Donor Jeff Yass Owned Shares in Trump Media Merger Partner
Jeff Yass, the billionaire Wall Street financier and Republican megadonor who is a major investor in the parent company of TikTok, was also the biggest institutional shareholder of the shell…
A New Game from The Times
I still hear from readers who learned about the Connections game from this newsletter and now play it every day. Today, I want to tell you about The Times’s newest…
Storm Brings Heavy Snow to Northern New York and Vermont
A storm system on Saturday brought heavy rain to the Northeast and heavy snow to parts of New England and Northern New York, leaving more than 300,000 households in several…
Opinion | America’s Most Overlooked Political Divide Is Also Its Most Revealing
It’s not often that a poll result causes me to do a double take. This month, however, a Pew Research Center survey grabbed my attention. As part of a comprehensive…
41 Days in a Bunker: How a Battle Raged on Ukraine’s Bloody Front Line
The two Ukrainian soldiers were trapped. After repelling waves of Russian attempts to storm their small bunker in a cellar near an abandoned house, the enemy was on top of…
Catherine’s Cancer Disclosure Shows Her Lessons From Previous Media Ordeals
For more than two months, Catherine, Princess of Wales, had lost control of her story to a spiral of wild, baseless online rumors. On Friday evening, with a stark two-minute,…
How an Unexpected DM and a Serendipitous Trip Led to Love
You might say the algorithm made him do it. Norris Ethan White contacted Bianca Alexis Brunette in July 2014 after she appeared on his Instagram feed out of the blue.…