‘Shoot Me Up With a Big One’: The Pain of Matthew Perry’s Last Days
On the day Matthew Perry died, his live-in personal assistant gave him his first ketamine shot of the morning at around 8:30 a.m. About four hours later, while Mr. Perry…
Biden Will Designate Illinois Race Riot Site as a National Monument
President Biden will designate a national monument on Friday at the site of a 1908 race riot that laid waste to a Black community in Springfield, Ill., joining civil rights…
Opinion | Trump Is No Longer Even Pretending to Champion the Working Class
The most consequential moment from Donald Trump’s glitchy interview with Elon Musk on Monday came during a discussion of government cost-cutting. “Well, you, you’re the greatest cutter,” Trump told Musk,…
Iranian Nobel Laureate Badly Beaten in Prison, Her Lawyer and Family Say
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi was violently beaten by prison guards last week, and her requests for hospital care and a meeting with…
Opinion | The Brazen Evasions of Hunter Biden
With this month’s revelations that Hunter Biden directly contacted American officials for the benefit of foreign clients in Ukraine and allegedly Romania, and with Mr. Biden facing a new trial…
On a Scrambled 2024 Map, North Carolina Democrats Say Harris Has a Shot
President Biden’s campaign declared in its earliest days that he had a strong chance of winning North Carolina, even though no Democrat had captured the state since Barack Obama’s victory…
Revenues Down and Stock Battered as Data Firm Faces Scrutiny
Already under investigation in Congress, a data analytics firm that has helped major health insurers make billions of dollars by reducing reimbursements for medical bills is facing growing scrutiny from…
No Joke: The Onion Thinks Print Is the Future of Media
The funniest writers at The Onion shuffled through dozens of news stories at a meeting last week, trying to discern which headline would make readers laugh harder. “Next Up: 911…
Opinion | Forget the Silent Majority. This Election Is a Battle for the Burn-It-Down Middle.
Something in the Democratic Party’s subconscious knows that in times of change it should go to Chicago. It’s the city where, in 1896, a 36-year-old William Jennings Bryan sent convention…
Flying Kenya’s Flag Can Be a Crime. Protesters Now Wave It Proudly.
The actors onstage reached for their pockets, each pulling out and then unfurling a Kenyan flag before a hushed crowd that packed the theater. Then, in a solemn and chilling…