Opinion | The G.O.P.’s Problem With the Elite Begins With Its Own
Donald Trump loves to show off how smart he is. “I’m, like, a smart person,” he boasted on one occasion. “I went to an Ivy League college, I was a…
Kremlin Uses Olympic Ban as Another Arrow to Shoot at the West
More than 10,500 athletes from some 200 countries will participate in the Olympic Games in Paris, but only 15 of them will be from Russia. They will compete without the…
Opinion | Simone Biles Has Already Won
All the signs suggest Simone Biles is ready for it: to return to the Olympic stage and crush her new floor-routine mix that starts with a Taylor Swift song. She…
Elon Musk Wants People on X to Police Election Posts. It’s Not Working Well.
Less than an hour after President Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate for president on Sunday, users on X falsely claimed she was “ineligible” to run…
In a World of Fast Fashion, They Take Pride in Taking Their Time
In a small workroom on Pell Street in Chinatown, Evan O’Hara bent over a scrap of skin from an alligator’s leg and used a large cotton swab to dab it…
Gun-Detecting Technology Will Soon Appear in Subway System
New York City officials will begin testing gun-detecting scanners inside subway stations this week in what they say is an effort to address riders’ concerns about crime. The weapon-detection devices,…
The Illicit Flow of Technology to Russia Goes Through This Hong Kong Address
From a nondescript seventh-floor office at 135 Bonham Strand near Hong Kong’s financial district, at least four companies are operating with a shadowy mission: facilitating the illicit trade of Western…
The Beginning of Biden’s Long Goodbye
He always knew that he would be delivering a speech like this. He just thought, or hoped, that it would be more than four years from now. Yet while it…
Biden Says It Is Time to Step Aside for a Fresh, Younger Voice
President Biden told the American public in an Oval Office address on Wednesday that he had abandoned his re-election campaign because there is “a time and a place for new…
The Secret Battle for the Future of the Murdoch Empire
Rupert Murdoch is locked in a secret legal battle against three of his children over the future of the family’s media empire, as he moves to preserve it as a…