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11.30.2023

The American economy, by many measures, is doing better than it has done in years. But for many Americans, that is not how it feels. Their feelings point to an enduring mystery: Why do Americans feel so bad when the ...

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11.30.2023 The Bad Vibes Around a Good Economy The American economy, by many measures, is doing better than it has done in years. But for many Americans, that is not how it feels. Their feelings point to an enduring mystery: Why do Americans feel so bad when the ...
11.29.2023 Ending Roe Was Supposed to Reduce Abortions. It Didn’t. From the moment that Roe v. Wade was overturned, the question was just how much the change would reduce abortions across the United States. Now, more than a year later, the numbers are in. Margot Sanger-Katz, who writes about health ...
11.28.2023 Israel and Hamas’s Fragile Cease-Fire Hostages are at the heart of the fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, now in its fifth day. As of Monday night, 50 Israeli hostages had been released, as had 150 Palestinian prisoners. More releases were expected on Tuesday, under ...
11.27.2023 Botox, Hermès and OnlyFans: Why This May Be George Santos’s Last Week in Congress Only five members of the U.S. House of Representatives have ever been expelled from the institution. This week, Representative George Santos, Republican of New York, could become the sixth. In a damning ethics report, House investigators found that the congressman ...
11.24.2023 'Hard Fork': An Interview With Sam Altman It was a head-spinning week in the tech world with the abrupt firing and rehiring of OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman. The hosts of “Hard Fork,” Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, interviewed Altman only two days before he was fired. ...
11.23.2023 Thanksgiving With 'The Run-Up': Are Black Voters Leaving Democrats Behind? Polls suggest that they are – and that Black voters’ support for former President Donald J. Trump, especially among men, is rising. Astead W. Herndon, host of "The Run-Up," convened a special Thanksgiving focus group to explore what might be ...
11.22.2023 Inside the Coup at OpenAI The board of OpenAI, the maker of the ChatGPT chatbot and one of the world’s highest-profile artificial intelligence companies, reversed course late last night and brought back Sam Altman as chief executive. Cade Metz, a technology reporter for The Times, ...
11.21.2023 A Reporter’s Journey Into Gaza As the war against Hamas enters a seventh week, Israel finds itself under intense pressure to justify its actions in Gaza, including the raid of Al-Shifa Hospital, which it says is a center of Hamas activity. Hamas and hospital officials ...
11.20.2023 The New Speaker Avoided a Shutdown. Can He Avoid Being Ousted? By working with Democrats to avert a government shutdown this past week, Speaker Mike Johnson seemed to put himself on the same path that doomed his predecessor. Or did he? Catie Edmondson, who covers Congress for The Times, explains why ...
11.19.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘What Does the U.S. Space Force Actually Do?’ The Space Force, the sixth and newest branch of the U.S. military, was authorized by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump in December 2019. The initiative had been shaped within the armed forces and Congress over the ...
11.17.2023 Two Superpowers Walk Into a Garden One of the most highly anticipated diplomatic events of the year took place this week in a mansion outside San Francisco. President Biden and Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, met to repair their countries’ relations, which had sunk to one ...
11.16.2023 Biden’s Electric Car Problem A little over a year ago, at President Biden’s urging, congressional democrats passed a sweeping plan to supercharge the production and sale of electric vehicles. Jim Tankersley, who covers economic policy for The Times, explains whether the law is actually ...
11.15.2023 A Strategy to Treat Big Tech Like Big Tobacco A historic set of new lawsuits, filed by more than three dozen states, accuses Meta, the country’s largest social media company, of illegally luring children onto its platforms and hooking them on its products. Natasha Singer, who covers technology, business ...
11.14.2023 Hamas’s Bloody Arithmetic To much of the outside world, Hamas’s decision to murder hundreds of Israelis and trigger a war that has since killed many thousands of its own people looks like a historic miscalculation — one that could soon result in the ...
11.13.2023 The Doctors of Gaza As Israel’s war on Hamas enters its sixth week, hospitals in Gaza have found themselves on the front lines. Hospitals have become a refuge for the growing number of civilians fleeing the violence, but one that has become increasingly dangerous ...
11.12.2023 From Serial: ‘The Kids of Rutherford County’ In April 2016, 11 Black schoolchildren, some as young as 8 years old, were arrested in Rutherford County, Tenn. The reason? They didn’t stop a fight between some other kids. What happened in the wake of those arrests would expose ...
11.10.2023 What Adidas Knew About Kanye Warning: this episode contains some explicit language. When Adidas terminated its multibillion-dollar partnership with Kanye West over his antisemitic and other offensive public remarks, it seemed like a straightforward story of a celebrity’s suddenly imploding. But a New York Times ...
11.09.2023 The Supreme Court Tests Its Own Limits on Guns A critical gun case was argued before the Supreme Court this week. But instead of opening further freedoms for gun owners — as the court, with its conservative supermajority, did in a blockbuster decision last year — justices seemed ready ...
11.08.2023 The Trumps Take the Stand Of all the legal cases that former President Donald J. Trump is facing, perhaps the most personal is playing out in a courtroom in Manhattan: a civil fraud trial that could result in him losing control of his best-known buildings ...
11.07.2023 The Growing Republican Battle Over War Funding It’s been one month since the attack on Israel, but Washington has yet to deliver an aid package to its closest ally. The reason has to do with a different ally, in a different war: Speaker Mike Johnson has opposed ...
11.06.2023 Swing State Voters Are Souring on Biden In a major new campaign poll from The New York Times and Siena College, former President Donald J. Trump leads President Biden in five of the six battleground states likeliest to decide the 2024 presidential race. Widespread discontent with the ...
11.05.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘The Botched Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Killer’ The beginning of the story was strangely familiar, like the opening scene in a shopworn police procedural: A woman runs screaming down a street in Oak Beach, a secluded gated community on Long Island’s South Shore, only to vanish, it ...
11.03.2023 1948 As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict enters its darkest chapter in decades, both sides are evoking the same foundational moment in their past: the events of 1948. David K. Shipler, a former Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times and the ...
11.02.2023 The Many Missed Warnings Before Maine’s Mass Shooting The mass shooting in Maine last week, which killed 18 people, was the country’s deadliest of the year. It may have also been one of the most avoidable. More than five months earlier, the Army Reserve and a Maine sheriff’s ...
11.01.2023 Lessons From an Unending Conflict In late September, one of the world’s most intractable conflicts ended suddenly and brutally when Azerbaijan seized the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians fled their homes. Andrew Higgins, the New York Times bureau chief for ...
10.31.2023 A Historic Strike (And Win) For Auto Workers A wave of strikes that has paralyzed the auto industry came to an end on Monday, when the last of the three big car manufacturers, General Motors, reached a deal with the United Automobile Workers union. Neal E. Boudette, who ...
10.30.2023 Israel's Invasion Begins Over the weekend, the Israeli military appears to have begun an invasion of the Gaza Strip, with tanks rolling into the enclave and Israeli soldiers fighting Hamas inside. But the operation remains shrouded in secrecy, and Israel is revealing little ...
10.29.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘Who Hired the Hitmen to Silence Zitácuaro?’ On Oct. 19, 2021, Armando Linares López was writing up notes from an interview when his cellphone buzzed with an unknown number. Linares, 49 and stocky with black hair that was just starting to show gray streaks, ran an online ...
10.27.2023 A New Threat: Surprise Hurricanes Hurricane Otis, which killed more than two dozen people in southern Mexico this week, exemplified a phenomenon that meteorologists fear will become more and more common: a severe hurricane that arrives with little warning or time to prepare. Judson Jones, ...
10.26.2023 Introducing ‘The War Briefing’ As the Israel-Hamas war intensifies, fears are growing that the conflict could spread beyond Gaza. And with an expected Israeli ground invasion, the coming days are likely to have enormous consequences. To meet this moment, The Times has started a ...
10.26.2023 The House Finally Has a Speaker Warning: this episode contains strong language. After 21 days without a leader, and after cycling through four nominees, House Republicans have finally elected a speaker. They chose Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana, a hard-right conservative best known for leading congressional ...
10.25.2023 Why Israel Is Delaying the Ground Invasion Almost immediately after Israel was attacked on Oct. 7, it began preparing for a ground invasion of Gaza, drafting hundreds of thousands of its citizens and amassing forces along its southern border. But more than two weeks later, that invasion ...
10.24.2023 The Lawyers Now Turning on Trump Over the past few days, two of the lawyers who tried to help former President Donald J. Trump stay in power after losing the 2020 election pleaded guilty in a Georgia racketeering case and have agreed to cooperate with prosecutors ...
10.23.2023 The Problem With a $2 Trillion Deficit Over a year, the federal deficit — the gap between what the U.S. government spends and what it earns — has doubled, to nearly $2 trillion. That figure seems to validate the worries of congressional Republicans about government spending, which ...
10.22.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘The Genius Behind Hollywood’s Most Indelible Sets’ Kihekah Avenue cuts through the town of Pawhuska, Okla., roughly north to south, forming the only corridor you might call a “business district” in the town of 2,900. Standing in the middle is a small TV-and-appliance store called Hometown, which ...
10.20.2023 Hamas Took Her Son Warning: This episode contains strong language and descriptions of violence. When Hamas attacked Israel, they took two hundred hostages back with them into the Gaza Strip, including grandparents and children as young as nine months old. It was one of ...
10.19.2023 A Texas Town Wanted Tougher Border Security. Now It’s Having Regrets. When the governor of Texas announced an extraordinary plan to use local law enforcement to try to deter migrants from crossing from the border with Mexico, few communities were more receptive than the city of Eagle Pass, where residents had ...
10.18.2023 The Diplomatic Scramble to Contain the Israel-Hamas War A devastating blast at a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday killed hundreds and ignited protests across the broader Middle East, deepening the crisis in the region. As President Biden visits Israel looking to ease tensions and avoid a broader conflict, ...
10.17.2023 The Arm-Twisting, Back-Stabbing Battle for House Speaker The House of Representatives still has no speaker, crippling a vital branch of the government. And the Republican who seems to be in the strongest position to take the role, Jim Jordan of Ohio, was once called a “legislative terrorist” ...
10.16.2023 Voices from Gaza Warning: This episode contains descriptions of death. As the conflict continues, Israel has blocked food, water and electricity from entering Gaza and has bombarded the area with airstrikes that have killed more than 2,600 Palestinians. Late last week, Israel ordered ...
10.15.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘Is Måneskin the Last Rock Band?’ The triumphant return to Rome of Måneskin — arguably the only rock stars of their generation, and almost certainly the biggest Italian rock band of all time — coincided with a heat wave across Southern Europe. On a Thursday morning ...
10.13.2023 Golan’s Story Warning: this episode contains descriptions of death. In the week since Israel suffered the deadliest day in its modern history, fresh accounts have emerged in village after village of just how extreme and widespread the violence was. Today we hear ...
10.12.2023 The Spoiler Threat of R.F.K. Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was once dismissed as a fringe figure in the 2024 presidential race. But this week, as he announces an independent run for the White House, he’s striking fear within both the Democratic and Republican parties. Rebecca ...
10.11.2023 Israel’s Plan to Destroy Hamas For years, Israel’s leaders believed that they could coexist with Hamas. After this weekend’s massacre, that belief is over. Steven Erlanger, a former Jerusalem bureau chief at The New York Times, explains what Israel’s plan to destroy Hamas will mean ...
10.10.2023 The New Supreme Court Cases to Watch Last week, the Supreme Court began its new term, picking up where it left off on the most contentious issues of the day, with cases connected to government power, gun rights and abortion. Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court ...
10.09.2023 War in Israel Warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence. Over the weekend, Palestinian militants with Hamas, the Islamic group that controls the Gaza Strip, mounted a stunning and highly coordinated invasion of Israel, rampaging through Israeli towns, killing people in their homes ...
10.08.2023 The Sunday Read: ‘The Dungeons & Dragons Players of Death Row’ The first time Tony Ford played Dungeons & Dragons, he was a wiry Black kid who had never seen the inside of a prison. His mother, a police officer in Detroit, had quit the force and moved the family to ...
10.06.2023 Chaos or Conscience? A Republican Explains His Vote to Oust McCarthy. The ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy a few days ago demonstrated how powerful a small group of hard-right House Republicans have become and how deep their grievances run. We speak to one of the eight republicans who brought down ...
10.05.2023 The Mosquitoes Are Winning For decades, the world seemed to be winning the war against mosquitoes and tamping down the deadly diseases they carried. But in the past few years, progress has not only stalled, it has reversed. Stephanie Nolen, who covers global health ...
10.04.2023 The Ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy The vote on Tuesday to remove Representative Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House of Representative has left the chamber mired in chaos. Luke Broadwater, a congressional correspondent for The Times, describes what happened on an unprecedented day in American ...

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The Bad Vibes Around a Good Economy

Ending Roe Was Supposed to Reduce Abortions. It Didn’t.

Israel and Hamas’s Fragile Cease-Fire

Botox, Hermès and OnlyFans: Why This May Be George Santos’s Last Week in Congress

'Hard Fork': An Interview With Sam Altman

Thanksgiving With 'The Run-Up': Are Black Voters Leaving Democrats Behind?

Inside the Coup at OpenAI

A Reporter’s Journey Into Gaza

The New Speaker Avoided a Shutdown. Can He Avoid Being Ousted?

The Sunday Read: ‘What Does the U.S. Space Force Actually Do?’

Two Superpowers Walk Into a Garden

Biden’s Electric Car Problem

A Strategy to Treat Big Tech Like Big Tobacco

Hamas’s Bloody Arithmetic

The Doctors of Gaza

From Serial: ‘The Kids of Rutherford County’

What Adidas Knew About Kanye

The Supreme Court Tests Its Own Limits on Guns

The Trumps Take the Stand

The Growing Republican Battle Over War Funding

Swing State Voters Are Souring on Biden

The Sunday Read: ‘The Botched Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Killer’

1948

The Many Missed Warnings Before Maine’s Mass Shooting

Lessons From an Unending Conflict

A Historic Strike (And Win) For Auto Workers

Israel's Invasion Begins

The Sunday Read: ‘Who Hired the Hitmen to Silence Zitácuaro?’

A New Threat: Surprise Hurricanes

Introducing ‘The War Briefing’

The House Finally Has a Speaker

Why Israel Is Delaying the Ground Invasion

The Lawyers Now Turning on Trump

The Problem With a $2 Trillion Deficit

The Sunday Read: ‘The Genius Behind Hollywood’s Most Indelible Sets’

Hamas Took Her Son

A Texas Town Wanted Tougher Border Security. Now It’s Having Regrets.

The Diplomatic Scramble to Contain the Israel-Hamas War

The Arm-Twisting, Back-Stabbing Battle for House Speaker

Voices from Gaza

The Sunday Read: ‘Is Måneskin the Last Rock Band?’

Golan’s Story

The Spoiler Threat of R.F.K. Jr.

Israel’s Plan to Destroy Hamas

The New Supreme Court Cases to Watch

War in Israel

The Sunday Read: ‘The Dungeons & Dragons Players of Death Row’

Chaos or Conscience? A Republican Explains His Vote to Oust McCarthy.

The Mosquitoes Are Winning

The Ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

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