Opinion | Glenn Youngkin Is Playing a Dangerous Game
Their arrival marked the beginning of a tectonic shift in American political life. “The difference in laws between the North and the South created a political coming-of-age for Black migrants,”…
What Comes Next in the Fed’s Fight Against Inflation?
The Federal Reserve is expected to deliver a third straight supersize interest rate increase this week as it wages its most aggressive fight against inflation since the 1980s — and…
The Redistricting Mess Comes to New York’s City Council
For several long months, New York’s efforts to redraw state congressional maps were caught in a fractious, litigious battle, ultimately leading to ugly intraparty fights and the ouster of incumbent…
Opinion | The Single Best Guide to Decarbonization I’ve Heard
In August, Joe Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act, which included $392 billion towards a new climate budget — the single largest investment in emissions reduction in U.S.…
Perfectly Reasonable Question: Can We Trust the Polls?
Last Monday, I wrote about the early “warning signs” in this year’s Senate polling. Then three days later, I helped write up the results of a new national survey: a…
Opinion | Echoes of Oceans Past
Not that long ago the world’s oceans were viewed as too gargantuan for humans to influence. This view was voiced most notably in 1883 by the English biologist Thomas Huxley,…
How a Quebec Lithium Mine May Help Make Electric Cars Affordable
About 350 miles northwest of Montreal, amid a vast pine forest, is a deep mining pit with walls of mottled rock. The pit has changed hands repeatedly and been mired…
When Fossils Are Accidentally Dug Up, the Job Site Becomes a Science Lab
He helped excavate thousands of ice age fossils, including mammoths, mastodons, camels, plants and insects, at the site of a reservoir expansion in Snowmass Village, Colo. And in the Denver…
In One Corner of Kosovo, Cheers Still Ring Out for Putin
MITROVICA, Kosovo — When Europeans and Americans recoiled in horror this spring at evidence of Russian atrocities in Ukraine, Nebjosa Jovic, a university administrator in northern Kosovo, decided he had…
Videos Show Trump Allies Handling Georgia Voting Equipment
Newly released videos show allies of former President Donald J. Trump and contractors who were working on his behalf handling sensitive voting equipment in a rural Georgia county weeks after…