Opinion | Democrats Don’t Need to Calm Down
April 2, 2024, 5:16 p.m. ET April 2, 2024, 5:16 p.m. ET Credit…Will Heath/NBC, via Getty Images It is a rare thing in our rapidly secularizing country to be confronted…
Opinion | Three Democratic Senators Are Stuck Indulging an Outdated Fantasy
In 1999, a Florida lawyer, Anuraag Singhal, represented a man convicted of gunning down a police officer. Singhal had to somehow persuade a jury that his client, Jeffrey Lee Weaver,…
Woody Allen, Reputation Bruised, Finds Muted Reception to 50th Film
This weekend, 13 movie theaters around the country will be showing “Coup de Chance,” a brisk French-language thriller about a bored wife in Paris who cheats on her wealthy, aloof…
Want to Invest in SpaceX or Stripe? There’s a Fund for That.
Stripe, a payments start-up, is one of the most successful companies to emerge from Silicon Valley in a generation. Last year, it hit a valuation of $65 billion. But in…
The Secret to Caitlin Clark’s Shooting Power
When Caitlin Clark, the 22-year-old University of Iowa point guard, lines up against the University of Connecticut team on Friday night, she will most likely shoot the ball from far…
Opinion | Fulfilling Our Mom’s Dream to See the Solar Eclipse
If all goes according to plan, on April 8, our 75-year-old mother, Nancy, will be settled into a lawn chair in Waco, Texas — some 1,300 miles from her recliner…
The Market May Have Finally Hit a Real Record, But It Could Be a Problem
It’s been a splendid run for the market — so emphatically great that in just the first three months of the year, the S&P 500 climbed to record highs on…
Dwindling Ammunition Stocks Pose Grave Threat to Ukraine
The crew at an artillery position in eastern Ukraine had 33 shells in its ammunition bunker, stacked neatly like firewood against a wall. Then came an order to fire. Twenty…
Who Will Pay for the Baltimore Bridge Collapse?
On the day the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed, President Biden said the federal government would pay the “entire cost” of rebuilding it, which some suggest could run…
Back in the ’90s, This Eclipse Webcast Put the Cosmos on Demand
On Feb. 26, 1998, hundreds of people gathered to watch a total solar eclipse. The crowd gasped as the moon gobbled up the sun. They oohed and aahed as the…