10 Big Biden Environmental Rules, and What They Mean
The Biden administration has been racing this spring to finalize a slew of major environmental regulations, including rules to combat climate change, a first-ever ban on asbestos and new limits…
Harris Warns of Supreme Court’s Future Rulings: ‘I Worry About Fundamental Freedoms’
Vice President Kamala Harris attacked the conservative-controlled Supreme Court on Wednesday, warning that its future decisions could limit a broad range of civil rights and personal freedoms for many Americans.…
Opinion | What Kind of Husband Behaves Like Donald Trump?
Donald Trump sat silent, stone-faced and staring straight ahead as he listened to the intimate details in Stormy Daniels’s testimony on Tuesday, closing his eyes at times in an apparent…
How Public School Leaders Upstaged Republicans and the Ivy League
The House of Representatives is one of Washington’s most raucous forums, a free-for-all of personalities with profiles to raise and points to score. But it turns out that the rough-and-tumble…
Opinion | The Case for Hope
Mr. Kristof is the author of a new memoir, “Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life,” from which this essay is adapted. More than three-quarters of Americans say the United States is…
How Parents, Students Reacted to Their School Leaders Testifying on the Hill
Tim O’Brien, the father of a senior at Berkeley High School in California and a supporter of the Palestinian cause, watched the congressional hearing on antisemitism on Wednesday involving the…
Opinion | The Part of the Kristi Noem Saga That I Can’t Shake
Americans like feeling as though they know their political leaders personally. And yet I think many of us now feel we know a little too much about Kristi Noem, one…
He Sang ‘What a Fool Believes.’ But Michael McDonald Is in on the Joke.
The voice of Michael McDonald has been compared to velvet, silk and sandpaper, melted chocolate and last year, by a besotted 11-year-old girl, an angel. He has harmonized with the…
The Ever-Resilient Pupfish Makes a Comeback in Death Valley
When it comes to sheer resilience, few, if any, species can match the tiny Devils Hole pupfish. Cyprinodon diabolis, as the species is known, has the most ruthlessly circumscribed natural…
A Former Guantánamo Prisoner’s New Life
On the 15th night of Ramadan in a suburb of Belize City, Majid Khan and his family of four sat down for a traditional iftar meal to break the daylight…