For Gen Z, TikTok Is the New Search Engine
When Ja’Kobi Moore decided to apply this year to a private high school in her hometown of New Orleans, she learned that she needed at least one letter of recommendation…
TikTok’s C.E.O. Navigates the Limits of His Power
TikTok recently tried to tamp down concerns from U.S. lawmakers that it poses a national security threat because it is owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance. The viral video…
Opinion | How Far Should We Go to Save a Species?
If we want to maintain a livable Earth, we must prepare radical measures to safeguard biodiversity. And we will need to grapple with some queasiness about extending humankind’s manipulation of…
‘A Kitchen for the Kitchen’
right at home The back kitchen, in essence a pantry on overdrive, has become increasingly popular in recent years, according to architects, designers and homebuilders. Send any friend a story…
At Old Coal Mines, the American Chestnut Tries for a Comeback
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ohio — Michael French trudged through a thicket of prickly bramble, unfazed by the branches he had to swat away on occasion in order to arrive at a…
Opinion | A Rail Strike Averted Reminds Us That There Is Power in a Union
Then, as now, they faced owners who “notoriously squeezed the maximum profit at the smallest cost from their lines.” And in the reactionary backlash that followed the end of the…
Opinion | Nuclear Power Still Doesn’t Make Much Sense
“The best way to become good at building nuclear power plants is to build nuclear power plants,” said Sama Bilbao y Léon, the director general of the World Nuclear Association.…
Opinion | Now All Biden Has to Do Is Build It
In the past few months, Joe Biden’s agenda has gone from a failed promise to real legislation. Taken together, the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act (along…
‘At the Breaking Point’: Tibetans, Under Lockdown, Make Rare Cries for Help
BEIJING — Infected patients quarantined alongside those who tested negative. No food for hours, despite repeated requests. Lines of buses, loaded with people, waiting late into the night to drop…
31 Bridges, 2 Cities, 6 Towns: Greenway Is New Jersey’s High Line
NEWARK — For years, the project has been little more than a dearly held dream of environmentalists and safe-streets advocates: a nine-mile hiking and biking trail built along a defunct…