Opinion | Math Is the Great Secret
As a boy in the first weeks of algebra class, I felt confused and then I went sort of numb. Adolescents order the world from fragments of information. In its…
A Welsh Village Embraces Its Bond With the Queen
ABERFAN, Wales — As the days count down to Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday, Gaynor Madgwick has been of two minds: Should she watch the ceremony from her home…
How Russian Trolls Helped Keep the Women’s March Out of Lock Step
Artyom Baranov, who worked at one of Project Lakhta’s affiliates from 2018 to 2020, concluded that his co-workers were, for the most part, people who needed the money, indifferent to…
Echoing Trump, These Republicans Won’t Promise to Accept 2022 Results
WASHINGTON — Nearly two years after President Donald J. Trump refused to accept his defeat in the 2020 election, some of his most loyal Republican acolytes might follow in his…
Opinion | Invent! Invent! Repeat.
Democrats should braid policies to make drugs cheaper with policies to make drug innovation easier and, in some cases, more profitable. I spent some time this week talking to Heidi…
Apple Shot an Oscar Contender Starring Will Smith. That Was Before the Slap.
Apple has a Will Smith problem. Mr. Smith is the star of “Emancipation,” a film set during the Civil War era that Apple envisioned as a surefire Oscar contender when…
New Boosters Test Covid-Weary Nation. Shots Are Here. Do Americans Care?
It was vaccination time at Ethel Brown’s long-term care home in the Bronx. Again. Ms. Brown, 95, had already gotten four Covid shots, and while she was happy to submit…
Majority of Latino Voters Out of G.O.P.’s Reach, New Poll Shows
“I don’t consider myself a Democrat or Republican — I am on standby right now until the next election,” she said. In their effort to attract new voters, Republicans have…
Biden Warns Russia, Facing Losses, Against Using Unconventional Weapons
KYIV, Ukraine — Torture chambers in the basements of police precincts and school buildings. Witness testimony of abuse, humiliation and murder. Seven foreign medical students from Sri Lanka held captive…
Trump’s Former Accounting Firm Begins Turning Over Documents to Congress
WASHINGTON — Mazars USA, the longtime accounting firm for former President Donald J. Trump that cut ties with him and his family business this year, has begun turning over documents…