A Shrinking Margin
In Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, he won the Hispanic vote over Mitt Romney by 40 percentage points — 70 percent to 30 percent, according to Catalist, a political research…
How Border Politics Landed in Martha’s Vineyard
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‘We’re on That Bus, Too’: In China, a Deadly Crash Triggers Covid Trauma
After a bus accident killed at least 27 people being transferred to a Covid quarantine facility on Sunday, the Chinese public staged a widespread online protest against the government’s harsh…
What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago
In an untitled, three-page short story, Ernest Hemingway casts F. Scott Fitzgerald as a scrappy boxer who leaves the ring battered and disfigured but ultimately victorious. He sketches out a…
How a Looming Oil Ban Could Devastate a Small Italian City
Like thousands of Sicilians who live near Priolo Gargallo, part of an industrial petrochemical hub on this island’s southeastern coast, Davide Mauro has tied his livelihood to the giant Russian-owned…
A Horse’s Collapse Rekindles Debate About New York City’s Carriage Rides
Horrified onlookers gathered last month around a fallen carriage horse where it had collapsed on a street in Midtown Manhattan. As the horse’s driver frantically tried to rouse it —…
What’s Next for Profits? Cars Shed Light on a Key Inflation Question.
In a recent speech pointedly titled “Bringing Inflation Down,” Lael Brainard, the Federal Reserve’s vice chair, zoomed in on the automobile market as a real-world example of a major uncertainty…
Opinion | Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests?
Still, there’s plenty of space for those panels, even in a future in which most or all of our electricity comes from clean sources, and in which widespread deployment of…
Opinion | Can Republicans Tax the Rich?
And a self-limiting tendency, while understandable, points to a plausible future in which national conservatism allows itself to be effectively reabsorbed into the G.O.P. mainstream without having achieved its revolution.…
In New Film, Former Employee Says Mario Batali Sexually Assaulted Her
Last month, when the celebrity chef Mario Batali settled two lawsuits brought by women in Boston who said he had groped them in public in 2017, it seemed as if…