Month: August 2024

D.J. Twitty was taking it all in: the jackmen lifting the racecars, the whizzing of air guns screwing in lug nuts, the slinging of 50-pound wheels. For a South Carolina…

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump flew to North Carolina this week to deliver what were billed as major speeches on the economy. Neither laid out…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente Patient readers, it’s been a very long week in the real world and I’m tired. So, this Water Cooler isn’t exactly an Open Thread, but…

Yves here. It’s disturbing but not surprising to learn that yet another billionaire is exerting outside policy influence, here on reproductive rights. And it is also disturbing to see what…

Yves here. Speaking of rat races, I have a sudden pile up of things to do and I need to dig myself out. But hopefully this post on the sorry…

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50…

Typhoon Ampil neared eastern Japan with strong winds on Friday and dumped heavy rain on the greater Tokyo area, flooding some streets, forcing evacuations and causing widespread disruptions to businesses…

Ying Ying, a panda at a Hong Kong theme park, has given birth to twins that were conceived naturally, a cause for celebration for conservationists rooting for the survival of…

The details are murky. In April, Hackmanac, a cybersecurity company, posted on X that about 2.9 billion records of personal data were for sale, from people in the United States,…

This could have been a new era for Thai democracy. The public resoundingly ended a near-decade of military rule last year, handing an electoral mandate to a progressive party and…