15 G.O.P. Governors Shut Out Food Aid for 8 Million Children
More than eight million children in 15 states, all led by Republican governors, will be shut out of a new federal food assistance program intended to help needy families during…
Are Iowa Evangelicals on the Trump Train? These Pastors Offer Clues.
Before he clinched the 2016 Republican nomination, won the presidency and remade the party in his nativist, norm-shattering image, Donald J. Trump lost the Iowa caucuses to a conservative Texan…
Opinion | The Greatest Threat Posed by Trump
If Donald Trump storms through Iowa and easily seizes the G.O.P. nomination, as presumed, and then goes on to win back the presidency, his victory will trigger a wild political…
A Huge Underground Battery Is Coming to a Tiny Utah Town
Outside Delta, a one-stoplight town in the scrublands of central Utah, a giant battery is taking shape underground. Two caverns, each as deep as the Empire State Building is tall,…
The Billionaires Spending a Fortune to Lure Scientists Away From Universities
In an unmarked laboratory stationed between the campuses of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a splinter group of scientists is hunting for the next billion-dollar drug. The group,…
Accused of Genocide, Israelis See Reversal of Reality. Palestinians See Justice.
Whatever its outcome, the accusation of genocide leveled this week against Israel at the world’s top court is an epochal intervention imbued with profound symbolism for both Israelis and Palestinians.…
U.S. and UK Forces Hit Military Targets in Yemen | naked capitalism
Yves here. Hoo boy. One assumes that, just as with Operation Prosperity Guardian, the US has to Do Something so as to appear to have some power. But by all…
What to Know After Closing Arguments in Trump’s Civil Fraud Trial
Donald J. Trump’s civil fraud trial went out with a bang on Thursday, with the former president delivering an impassioned defense during closing arguments. Mr. Trump attacked both the New…
These Democrats and Republicans Have Something in Common. It’s a Bar.
It was 10 p.m. on the eve of the governor’s State of the State address, and all of political New York, it seemed, was trying to jam into two adjoining…
Who Are the Houthis and Why Is the U.S. Attacking Them?
Since mid-November, the Houthis, a Yemeni rebel group backed by Iran, have launched dozens of attacks on ships sailing through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, a crucial shipping…