The Democrats Could Still Mess This Up
The 2024 election didn’t just return Donald Trump to the White House. It also left the Democrats confronting a potentially...
Deadly Attack on Oil Tankers Prompts Iraq to Close Oil Terminals
Two oil tankers were attacked and burning off the coast of Iraq early Thursday, prompting the Iraqi authorities to suspend...
Why Oil Prices Surged Even After the Release of Strategic Reserves
Reality is starting to set in for the world’s oil traders. Oil futures have again topped $100 a barrel —...
Haitian President’s Widow Recalls Killers Spoke Spanish and Used Nicknames
The gunmen who assassinated Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, in July 2021, spoke Spanish and killed him as he lay face...
Have a Complaint About Your Apartment? You Can Tell Mayor Mamdani.
Plenty of New Yorkers have complaints about their apartment. Few find themselves venting those problems to the mayor of New...
Passing Notes
Use your imagination to write the opening of a short story or poem inspired by this illustration, or describe a...
Could Free Child Care Last the Full Day? Some Working Parents Hope So.
When the preschool day at the Early Bird Educational Center in Queens ended at 2:30 p.m. on a recent afternoon,...
He Was Convicted in a Fatal Hit and Run. Why Isn’t He in Prison?
Orlando Fraga-Seruti had spent much of that Saturday night watching baseball with a friend on the jumbo screens that line...
At 13, He Was Selling Sneakers. At 18, He’s Facing Terror Charges.
To the extent that Emir Balat was known at all in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia, it was as a...
At China’s Big Political Meeting, a Rare Debate About Inequality
When the Chinese government gathered this month for its biggest political meeting of the year, it laid out big ambitions....
U.S. Accuses 16 Trading Partners of Unfair Practices and Opens Investigation
The Trump administration on Wednesday announced a new trade investigation into unfair trading practices by 16 of America’s largest trading...
Jimmy Kimmel Addresses the Notion of a Drone Strike on California
Welcome to Late Night Roundup, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us...
Word of the Day: epitome
epitome ɪˈpɪɾəmi noun 1. a standard or typical example 2. a brief abstract (as of an article or book) The...
Trump Targets Major Trading Partners With New Investigation
The Trump administration on Wednesday announced a new trade investigation into unfair trading practices by 16 of America’s largest trading...
Cuba Doesn’t Have to Be Next
In the wake of the Trump administration’s removal of President Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela and amid the U.S. bombing campaign...
