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  1. Hong’s Defeat in Wisconsin Shows the Limits of the Progressive Movement

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:37:00 -0000

    Francesca Hong’s defeat in the Democratic primary for governor defied expectations and may have shown the democratic socialist wave cannot reach beyond urban centers.
  2. Takeaways From the Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Carolina Primaries

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:42:37 -0000

    A moderate won the closely fought Democratic primary for governor in Wisconsin, the latest contest between the party’s progressive and moderate wings.
  3. What Can a Poll Tell Us?

    Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:39:37 -0000

    Everyone wants to know who will win an election, but polls do more than predicting outcomes. The polling reporter Ruth Igielnik shares how polls are also judged on their ability to reveal electorate dynamics.
  4. With Trump Secretly Evacuated, Imperiled Air Force One Became a Flying Decoy

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:43:46 -0000

    In response to a threat against the jet last month, the president was clandestinely removed in a catering container. But the plane was sent into the skies anyway with government employees and reporters onboard.
  5. See How Trump’s Secret Air Force One Swap Unfolded

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:51:57 -0000

    The extraordinary subterfuge was aimed at protecting an American president who has been in Iran’s cross hairs for years.
  6. Gulf Oil Giants Are Spending Billions to Build Ways Around Strait of Hormuz

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:34:05 -0000

    Even if a cease-fire materializes, Gulf exporters recognize that relying strictly on the Strait of Hormuz is a risk they can no longer take.
  7. Musical Manuscripts Are Intimate and Transporting. See Why.

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:38 -0000

    Franz Welser-Möst, the Cleveland Orchestra’s music director, takes us on a tour through the handwritten score of Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony.
  8. Inflation Eased Slightly in July, but Prices Remain Elevated as War Drags On

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:04:38 -0000

    Though energy prices fell last month after their spring surge, other factors pushed up costs as the Fed considers raising interest rates.
  9. Benign Inflation Data Offers Reprieve to Fed as It Weighs Rate Increase

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:08:32 -0000

    The latest Consumer Price Index report helped to reinforce the patient approach adopted by many officials at the Federal Reserve about raising rates, but it has not resolved the debate altogether.
  10. RFK Jr. Stirred Vaccine Fears in Pennsylvania Years Before Measles Outbreak

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:06:45 -0000

    At a speech in Lancaster County, Robert F. Kennedy mocked the threat of measles. Now local officials are racing to contain one of the largest outbreaks in the country.
  11. What to Know About the Vaccines Targeted by Trump’s Executive Order

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:31:55 -0000

    The order, whose legal power is unclear, recommended narrowing the use of vaccinations against several diseases that can be life-threatening.
  12. Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path, Now Open to All

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:06:40 -0000

    Paul Theroux traced the British coastline in 1982 for his book “The Kingdom by the Sea.” This year he walked parts of the new King Charles III England Coast Path, a continuous route along the country’s seashore.
  13. He Was Deported to Eswatini in Southern Africa. He May Never Go Free.

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:08:07 -0000

    As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.
  14. How a Reporter Interviewed Deportees Sent to a Prison in Africa by the Trump Administration

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:03:22 -0000

    A Times reporter spoke with detainees in southern Africa using a cellphone one of them obtained after a hunger strike.
  15. Heat Kills Hundreds of Workers Each Year. A Postal Carrier Was One.

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:01:56 -0000

    About half a dozen states explicitly protect workers from excessive heat. And some others, like Texas, prevent local governments from passing their own laws.
  16. Europeans, Braced for 5th Heat Wave of 2026, Have Had Enough

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:50:01 -0000

    With temperatures set to soar as high as 109 degrees Fahrenheit (43 Celsius) this week, Europeans and tourists say that summer in Europe has lost its appeal.
  17. I Was Dick Cheney’s Cardiologist. I Have Questions About Trump’s Health.

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:58:32 -0000

    The president has not been looking well. Americans should get answers to these seven questions.
  18. Does My Face-Lift Make Me a Bad Feminist?

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:12:34 -0000

    I, like many a young woman, was once wildly judgmental about plastic surgery. Now I’m not so sure.
  19. Safety Subterfuge

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:51:15 -0000

    We look at President Trump’s exit from Turkey after last month’s NATO summit.
  20. Jimmy Fallon Recreates Trump’s Catering Container Escape

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:26:23 -0000

    “Everyone was, like, ‘Well, at least he has one exit plan,’” the “Tonight Show” host said.
  21. Zhu Rongji, Former Premier Who Pushed China to a Market Economy, Dies at 97

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:31:36 -0000

    As a vice premier and then premier, he helped transform China into the world’s leading manufacturing power and led his country into the World Trade Organization.
  22. What a Blighted Beach Town Says About England’s Forgotten North

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Blackpool, a vacation spot known as the Vegas of the North, has become a symbol of working-class fun.
  23. The Doulas Who Help Us Die

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In an aging America, thousands of people have adopted a new vocation: supporting others as they confront the end of life.
  24. Are You a Human?

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    From branding irons to iris scans, the ancient business of proving who you are has never been stranger—or more lucrative.
  25. Inside Russia’s New Gulag

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Human-rights groups estimate that more than ten thousand Ukrainian civilians have disappeared into the Russian prison system. This is the story of one cell.
  26. The Delusions of John Roberts

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Chief Justice insists that his Supreme Court isn’t biased even as it keeps making dramatic leaps rightward.
  27. An Israeli Satirist’s Bid to Save His Country’s Democracy

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:25:35 -0000

    Lior Schleien used to host hit TV shows. Now he posts videos of discussions with young people, the majority of whom currently tend right, which garner millions of views.
  28. The Great Delegalization

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.
  29. A.I. Is Now a Major Election Issue

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    As Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s newly elected Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, put it, “People really effing hate data centers.”
  30. The Senate’s Shameful Acquiescence to Todd Blanche as Attorney General

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:15:22 -0000

    A number of Republicans resisted his confirmation, but enough ultimately accepted the notion that Trump could do even worse.
  31. What Do India’s Gen Z Protests Mean for Modi?

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:19:00 -0000

    A movement of young people frustrated with India’s education system and economy has become the most serious challenge yet to an increasingly authoritarian government.
  32. Abdul El-Sayed’s Argument for America—and Against His Own Party

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate on campaigning with Hasan Piker, being a capitalist, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.”
  33. Will Left-Wing Democrats Reinvent the Party or Hurt Its Chances in November?

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Bernie Sanders’s erstwhile campaign manager explains why he thinks it’s the former.
  34. The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

    Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
  35. If A.I. Takes the Jobs of Young People, How Will They React?

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Democratic electorate is already moving left, but that may be nothing compared with what happens when unemployment really starts to rise.
  36. What Does the Humbling of Leopold Aschenbrenner Mean for the A.I. Bubble?

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The troubles of a twenty-four-year-old hedge-fund manager highlight some larger questions about the tech-driven stock boom.
  37. Did the Dodgers Ruin Baseball?

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Already the title favorites, Los Angeles acquired the league’s best pitcher at the trade deadline—and may have insured a lockout after the season.
  38. Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The voters who are determining the future of the Democratic Party.
  39. Minnesota Primary-Election Results

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:37:23 -0000

    Peggy Flanagan wins the state’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate; Mike Lindell, a close ally to President Donald Trump, loses the Republican gubernatorial primary.
  40. South Carolina Primary-Election Results: Graham and Norman Advance

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:37:02 -0000

    In the special Republican primary to replace Senator Lindsey Graham, who passed away in July, his sister Darline Graham and Representative Ralph Norman will move on to a runoff election in late August.
  41. Wisconsin Primary-Election Results: David Crowley Wins

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:36:31 -0000

    The Milwaukee County executive defeated Francesca Hong, a Democratic Socialist who was widely considered the front-runner in the Democratic primary for governor.
  42. How Socialist Is the D.S.A.? Megan Romer Explains

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:58:53 -0000

    Romer, a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, defends some of the D.S.A.’s controversial positions: “I think people like us being rather bold. . . . People want a fighter.”
  43. Can Extreme Morning Sickness Be Cured?

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    For decades, the condition was thought to be psychological, and women were shamed for their illness. Now a scientist has found a biological cause.
  44. Are Psychedelics Right-Wing Now?

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    How the conservative activist Bryan Hubbard, with help from Rick Perry and Joe Rogan, persuaded Trump and the G.O.P. to embrace ibogaine, a psychedelic drug derived from an African shrub.
  45. G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost

    Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A new book, “Little Blue Dot,” by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are.
  46. Max Miller’s Victim Mentality

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:24:23 -0000

    The Republican congressman’s bitter domestic dispute—in which he’s accused of physical abuse by his ex-wife, the daughter of an Ohio senator—is testing his party’s willingness to defend the indefensible.