Opinion | End Legal Slavery in the United States
Today we celebrate Juneteenth, the day when word of the Emancipation Proclamation reached the farthest outpost in America. Many people do not realize that Emancipation did not legally end slavery…
A Disaster of the U.S. Military’s Own Making
Austin Valley had just arrived at his Army base in Poland, last March, when he knocked on his buddy Adrian Sly’s door to borrow a knife. The base plate of…
Opinion | How Scared Should You Be of Bird Flu?
How worried you should be about H5N1, the bird flu virus spreading on dairy farms in the United States, depends on whom you are. The Centers for Disease Control and…
South Africa Runs Out of Insulin Pens as Global Supply Shifts to Weight-Loss Drugs
South Africa’s public health care system has run out of the human insulin pens that it provides to people with diabetes, as the pharmaceutical industry shifts production priorities to blockbuster…
In a State Notorious for Political Scandal, Signs of Change Emerge
New Jersey’s senior U.S. senator is on trial, charged with taking bribes in exchange for political favors. A federal judge has declared the state’s method of conducting primary elections fundamentally…
Britain Election Winner’s First Problem: Fix a Stagnant Economy
“Our economy has truly turned a corner,” Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, said last week as he introduced his party’s election manifesto, buoyed by recent data showing that Britain’s economy…
Putin and Kim Jong-un, Autocrats Brought Closer by War, Meet in Pyongyang
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia met with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, in his first visit to the country in nearly a quarter-century on Wednesday, as the two autocrats…
Remembering Willie Mays as Both Untouchable and Human
At the end, the Say Hey Kid looked nothing like the extraordinary force who had been at the center of the American imagination for much of the 20th century. The…
Willie Mays, Baseball’s Electrifying Player of Power and Grace, Is Dead at 93
Willie Mays, the spirited center fielder whose brilliance at the plate, in the field and on the basepaths for the Giants led many to call him the greatest all-around player…
Two Wildfires in New Mexico Burn Out of Control and Force Evacuations
Two wildfires in Southern New Mexico that destroyed 1,400 structures, consumed over 20,000 acres and forced the evacuations of thousands of people were still burning out of control on Tuesday…