Out of Season
You are going to encounter people this weekend who will tell you that there’s one week left of summer. You don’t have to believe them. You don’t have to be…
Trump’s Carefully Scripted Week Kept Veering Off Script
Donald J. Trump’s political endurance this year has been attributed in part to voters’ faded memories about why they denied him a second term four years ago. The former president…
NASA to Say if Boeing Starliner Astronauts Will Stay Longer on Space Station
Will they stay or will they go? On Saturday, NASA is scheduled to finally announce its decision for how two of its astronauts, who went to orbit in June on…
New Training and Tougher Rules: How Colleges Are Trying to Tame Gaza Protests
Less than 10 minutes had passed before Daniel Diermeier, Vanderbilt University’s chancellor, told hundreds of new students what the school would not do. The university would not divest from Israel.…
Can the G.O.P. Really Become the Party of Workers?
The most surprising moment of this year’s Republican National Convention may have come on its first night, when the president of the Teamsters railed in prime time against corporate elites…
Care Policies Take Center Stage in Harris’s Economic Message
The “care economy” — a broad set of policies aimed at helping parents and other caregivers — was the great unfinished work of President Biden’s domestic agenda. Vice President Kamala…
Elon Musk’s X Is Leaving San Francisco. City Officials Say ‘Good Riddance.’
San Francisco’s long relationship with X is nearly over — and city officials are far from heartbroken. Elon Musk is shuttering his social media company’s headquarters in a gritty downtown…
Not Only for Killing: Drones Are Now Detecting Land Mines in Ukraine
With a stiff gait, a drone dog stomped up and down a makeshift minefield at a U.S. Army testing center in Virginia, shuddering when it neared a plate-size puck meant…
How Elon Musk Got Tangled Up in Blue
By Nov. 9, 2022, anxiety was high among the Twitter employees gathered at the company’s San Francisco headquarters. They had spent part of that morning trying to gently explain to…
Teams Leave, but Oakland Still Finds Reasons to Cheer
On a cool May night, as the sun set over San Francisco in the distance, drummers and flag-waving fans led cheers of “Ohhhh-O-O-O Oakland” (to the tune of “Seven Nation…