Electric Thrills
It’s Friday, and as promised I have something fun for you: My colleague Chico Harlan, our global climate correspondent, is...
Flock Announces Privacy Updates to Its Car-Tracking Cameras
Flock Safety, a company facing increasing scrutiny of its nationwide car-tracking technology, announced several updates on Thursday it said would...
Raoul Vaneigem, Whose Manifesto Inspired 1968 Revolt in France, Dies at 92
Raoul Vaneigem, a prolific Belgian writer whose radical 1967 manifesto “The Revolution of Everyday Life” was a leading inspiration for...
What We Know About the Storms Battering the Midwest
Roads collapsed into sinkholes in Indiana. Roofs tore off buildings in Illinois. Residents cried out for water rescues in Ohio....
Covid Vaccines Are Not Linked to Miscarriage. Here’s How We Know.
Trump administration officials and other prominent Republicans falsely suggested this week that Covid-19 vaccines were linked to miscarriage, seizing misleadingly...
Moderates See Socialists as a Threat to the Democratic Party. Socialists Agree.
It was the Democratic Party’s “Summer of Socialism,” as an email from the Republican National Committee cheerfully called it that...
Is Bernie Sanders Helping or Hurting the Democrats?
To the Editor: Re “Sanders Is Not Doing the Democrats Any Favors,” by Matthew Yglesias (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 10):...
‘An American Daughter’ Review: Wendy Wasserstein’s Cautionary Tale
As long as a playwright is alive and working, there is no guarantee that they won’t go back in and...
Early-Onset El Niño
About 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, the first signs of El Niño have come to Kiribati, an island nation in...
Israel Evicted Settlers Besieging Palestinian Homes. Hours Later, They Were Back.
The Israeli military evicted on Thursday about a dozen settlers who had besieged two Palestinian families in their West Bank...
Who Is a Jew? California Considers a Small Box With Big Implications.
The state of California recognizes nearly 50 racial and ethnic identities for data collection, from American Indian to Samoan. Now...
Oil, Hunters and Dr. Phil: How a Long-Shot Project Is Shaking Up Greenland
In one of the most remote towns on earth, on the frozen crust of Greenland’s east coast, the American oilman...
U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown
Four days after Alex Pretti was fatally shot while filming officers taking part in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in...
Two Seriously Injured When Train Derails in Southern England
Two people were seriously injured Thursday afternoon when a passenger train derailed in East Sussex, England, the British Transport Police...
Judge Dismisses Federal Government’s Antisemitism Case Against Harvard
A federal judge in Boston on Thursday dismissed the Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard University, dealing a blow to...
