This is the seventh in the series “How America Heals,” in which Nicholas Kristof examines the interwoven crises devastating working-class America and explores paths to recovery. Twenty women with felony records and a history of drug use are standing on the sta... More »
Americans rehabilitate ex-presidents all the time.It was fascinating to see the rebranding of George W. Bush — the man who took us into the disastrous Iraq war and horribly bungled the response to Hurricane Katrina — into a charming amateur artist who played b... More »
LOADINGERROR LOADINGUnion workers who have battled dozens of Southern California hotels for new contracts are squaring off with an unlikely holdout: an airport hotel owned by the pension fund of a fellow union.Unite Here Local 11, which represents housekeepers... More »
Proponents of the racist “great replacement” theory are gloating after the GOP-led House of Representatives narrowly voted to impeach DHS Secretary Alexander Mayorkas on Tuesday. All but three Republican House members voted to impeach Mayorkas for allegedly fa... More »
The Biden-Harris campaign made its TikTok debut during the Super Bowl Sunday night. Their first video, which already has well over 8 million views, riffed on the wild conspiracy theory that President Joe Biden rigged the game for the Kansas City Chiefs in ex... More »
Charlotte, a rust-colored stingray the size of a serving platter, has spent much of her life gliding around the confines of a storefront aquarium in North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains.She’s 2,300 miles from her natural habitat under the waves off southern ... More »
Hey, Tom Suozzi beat Mazi Pilip. Are you excited?OK, I know it was only a congressional race in the New York suburbs. But he stomped her! The Democrats had been truly afraid that voters would be too cranky about the border and Biden Boredom to rally around a c... More »
Retro-photography apps that mimic the appearance of analog film formats make your digital files seem like they’re from another era.Like the allure of vinyl records, classic video games and even the early internet, the fascination with older photography standar... More »
Illustration by Erik Carter For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart. For three decades, a tiny text file has kept the in... More »
During the Super Bowl on Sunday, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took part in two great American political traditions: Campaign ads and family feuds. The latest Kennedy drama played out via a pricey $7 million campaign ad brought to you by the Am... More »
The flare of inflation reported this week, the unwelcome guest still hanging around when everyone was hoping he’d been shown the door, is a useful reminder of one way to understand the Biden era’s frustrations. The administration’s defenders often argue that i... More »