The N.Y.U. Chemistry Students Shouldn’t Have Needed That Petition
High-stakes “weed-out” classes like Organic Chemistry are relics of an age when college students were much more uniformly privileged.
Here’s Hoping Elon Musk Destroys Twitter
The best thing the platform can do for society is implode.
Ninety Years Ago, This Book Tried to Warn Us
A 1933 novel on the Nazi rise to power is still relevant today.
Ukraine war: Biden says nuclear risk highest since 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
Joe Biden says President Putin was “not joking” when he spoke of using tactical nuclear weapons.
Trump an enigma to people, says writer Haberman
The award-winning New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman has told the BBC that former US President Donald Trump is “an enigma for almost everybody”. “People want to read into his…
Biden Says Risk of Nuclear ‘Armageddon’ Is Highest Since 1962 Crisis
The president’s blunt warnings, highly unusual for an American president, were delivered informally to a group of Democratic donors in New York City.
In Record Numbers, Venezuelans Risk a Deadly Trek to the U.S. Border
Two crises are converging at the perilous land bridge known as the Darién Gap: the economic and humanitarian disaster underway in South America, and the bitter fight over immigration policy…
Biden Pardons Thousands of People Convicted of Simple Marijuana Possession
The move represents a fundamental change in America’s response to a drug that has been at the center of a clash between culture and policing for more than a half-century.
He Gave Up Football for NASCAR. Then He Changed the Sport.
Dion Williams, who is Black and goes by the nickname Rocko, has helped upend the perception of who belongs in NASCAR.
China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Pursuit Causes Mayhem Ahead of Party Conclave
Tourists are stranded, residents confined at home. Covid flare-ups and the accompanying lockdowns are causing disruptions ahead of a key Chinese Communist Party meeting.