Opinion | Putin Is Trying to Outcrazy the West
With his annexation of parts of Ukraine on Friday, Vladimir Putin has set in motion forces that are turning Russia into a giant North Korea. It will be a paranoid,…
Opinion | Big Tech Should Support the Iranian People, Not the Regime
Mahsa Amini died, but the hashtag #MahsaAmini lives on. Ms. Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman known as Jina in Kurdish, was stopped on Sept. 13 by the Islamic Republic of…
Opinion | A Strong Dollar Is Hurting Other Countries. Should the Fed Care?
“There is a danger that central banks jointly create an unnecessarily sharp global recession,” Maurice Obstfeld, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former chief economist of…
Opinion | Wonking Out: How the Remote Work Craze Made Housing Affordability Worse
When you’re telling stories about the economy, housing almost always looms large. It plays a huge role in the economy’s ups and downs: A burst housing bubble was the prime…
Did Your Home Security Camera Document Hurricane Ian?
Many people watched Hurricane Ian’s devastation remotely through their home video security systems. Are you someone who used your home security camera to monitor what was happening to your house…
Eric Adams Confidant Is Among New York’s Highest Paid Public Employees
The close confidant who New York City Mayor Eric Adams put on the payroll of the city’s economic development corporation earlier this year is earning more than $242,000 in salary…
Half of Adults Have Heard Little or Nothing About New Covid Boosters, Survey Finds
The new, redesigned Covid booster, which now protects against Omicron and its extremely contagious subvariants, appears to have a visibility problem. Federal authorities authorized the shot at the end of…
Jan. 6 and Mar-a-Lago Inquiries Converge in Fights Over Executive Privilege
In the Jan. 6 investigation, the Justice Department has obtained grand jury subpoenas for several former aides to Mr. Trump seeking testimony about his conversations. Mr. Trump’s lawyers have instructed…
How Painful Should Your Workout Be?
Unpublished new work from Dr. Inzlicht’s lab suggests that with the right encouragement, people can incrementally adopt the perspective of the joyful worker. To start, Dr. Inzlicht suggested taking “baby…
Cyclone Ian batters South Carolina in second US landfall
After wreaking deadly havoc in Florida, Ian smashes piers in South Carolina and floods neighbourhoods.