SEOUL — Governments and companies around the world scrambled Saturday to determine the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down most of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs and…
Read more Global leaders and businesses react to more U.S. tariff swingsGRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — When lightning sparked a small fire amid the stately ponderosa pines on the remote North Rim of the Grand Canyon last month, national parks…
Read more How a ‘good fire’ in the Grand Canyon exploded into a raging infernoRecently, a photo of rice left me confused. The rice itself looked tasty enough—fluffy, well formed—but its oddly fleshy hue gave me the creeps. According to the scientists…
Read more Everything Can Be MeatSign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. “Everybody’s waiting to write my obituary.” This is never a good thing for a candidate to…
Read more What Nikki Haley (Maybe) Learned in New HampshireThere were times, during the first two years of the Biden presidency, when I came close to forgetting about it all: the taunts and the provocations; the incitements…
Read more What Will Happen to the American Psyche If Trump Is Reelected?You wake up with a stuffy nose, so you head to the pharmacy, where a plethora of options awaits in the cold-and-flu aisle. Ah, how lucky you are…
Read more The Cold-Medication RacketThis article originally appeared in Undark Magazine. When Kevin E. Taylor became a pastor 22 years ago, he didn’t expect how often he’d have to help families make…
Read more Where End-of-Life Care Falls ShortDepending on whom you ask in politics, the sudden advances in artificial intelligence will either transform American democracy for the better or bring about its ruin. At the…
Read more Political Campaigns May Never Be the Same… for their views about marijuana legalization.Laurie laments the … lack of regulation for marijuana advertising. Despite the multiple … that clearly show that marijuana adversely affects the…
Read more The Marijuana-Legalization Conundrum – Medical Marijuana Program ConnectionYou’d think that, by now, Donald Trump’s fans would be tired of all this. The long lines and the self-indulgent speeches and the relentless blasting of Laura Branigan’s…
Read more Trump Begins the ‘Retribution’ TourTo be a newborn in the year 2023—and, almost certainly, every year that follows—means emerging into a world where the coronavirus is ubiquitous. Babies might not meet the…
Read more The COVID Question That Will Take Decades to AnswerThe Republican Party has had no better friend than Nassau County in the past few years. Of America’s largest counties, few have turned more sharply toward the GOP…
Read more Why Kevin McCarthy Can’t Lose George SantosA couple of weeks ago, a friend asked me how many COVID shots I’d gotten so far. And for a brief, wonderful moment, I forgot. “Three,” I told…
Read more Annual COVID Shots Mean We Can Stop CountingSometime in the spring of 2020, after centuries, perhaps millennia, of tumultuous coexistence with humans, influenza abruptly went dark. Around the globe, documented cases of the viral infection…
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