Opinion | Kamala Harris and Tim Walz Are Road-Tripping Through Georgia. Could They Actually Win There?
I can see why many people might not consider late August the best time to head to the Deep South. So hot. So sticky. But this week strikes me as…
Harris and Walz Point Their Campaign Bus to Rural Georgia
Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, seeking to build Democrats’ momentum in the Sun Belt, will campaign on Wednesday in the rural counties of southeast Georgia…
Last Crusade of Mexico’s President: A Drastic Redesign of the Judiciary
As Mexico’s president nears the end of his six-year term, his final mission is a sweeping redesign of the judiciary that he says is needed to fight corruption. But in…
Opinion | Boeing’s No Good, Never-Ending Tailspin Might Take NASA With It
Fifty-five years ago, when humans first walked on the moon, the Apollo 11 astronauts left Earth through the massive power of the Saturn V rocket. The greatest punch came from…
‘A Terrible President’: 12 Times Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Criticized Trump
The alliance between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former President Donald J. Trump, which was fortified on Tuesday with Mr. Kennedy’s appointment to Mr. Trump’s transition team, is a sharp…
Opinion | Surgeon General: Helping Stressed-Out Parents Should Be an Urgent Priority
One day when my daughter was a year old, she stopped moving her right leg. Tests found that she had a deep infection in her thigh that was dangerously close…
Voting Rights for Nebraska Felons in Flux as Election Day Approaches
When the Nebraska Legislature voted 38 to 6 this year to allow people convicted of felonies to cast a ballot immediately after completing their sentences, it was a moment of…
The East Rises in Germany, and So Does Political Extremism
Anna Wenske, 69, worked for decades at the national theater of East Germany, where she was born and still lives. “After the reunification, everything went kaput,” she said. She lost…
The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down
Jorge Colindres, a freshly cologned and shaven lawyer, handed me a hard hat to take the elevator to the 14th floor of what is now the tallest building on the…
Did You Even Go to the U.S. Open if You Didn’t Get a Hat?
As a college student at New York University, Morgan Riddle paid almost no attention to tennis. But she always knew when the U.S. Open was underway at the end of…