New Jersey School to Pay $9.1 Million to Settle Suit Over Student’s Suicide
A New Jersey school district has agreed to pay $9.1 million to the parents of a sixth grader who died by suicide in 2017, ending a lawsuit that accused administrators…
The Dance Delight in ‘Barbie’ Belongs to the Kens
When Robbie’s Barbie is trying to escape from executives who want to put her back in her box, she runs through the offices with breathtaking strength as if gulping up…
Social Security COLA Is Forecast Around 3%
More than 74 million Americans can expect a healthy inflation adjustment to their Social Security benefits next year — just not as large as this year’s historic 8.7 percent raise.…
An ‘Oppenheimer’ Reading List – The New York Times
Rhodes’s Pulitzer-winning book has been having a renaissance among people grappling with the potential destructive force of other new technologies. Writing in The Atlantic, Charlie Warzel called it “a kind…
Essay: D.H. Lawrence and the Search for the ‘Essential American Soul’
Or maybe not. Like some other modernist writers — W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis — Lawrence, who died in 1930, dabbled in a mode of aesthetic anti-liberalism that may…
The Robots We Were Afraid of Are Already Here
Digit drew a crowd, even here, in a convention center full of robot aficionados. A humanoid warehouse worker, Digit walked upright on goatlike legs and grabbed bins off a shelf…
Opinion | With DeSantis Reeling, What About Tim Scott?
Last Sunday, I argued that despite his stagnation in the polls, for Republicans (and non-Republicans) who would prefer that Donald Trump not be renominated for the presidency, Gov. Ron DeSantis…
Opinion | Jane Austen’s English Countryside Is Not Mine
Often people assume I am someone I am not. My childhood was spent making dens in the hidden corners of the landscaped gardens of a grand country estate in the…
Coups in Africa Run Coast to Coast After Niger Turmoil
Africa’s coup belt spans the continent: a line of six countries crossing 3,500 miles, from coast to coast, that has become the longest corridor of military rule on Earth. This…
In Odesa, Attacks Stoke Hatred of Russia
Standing on a bridge overlooking the road to Odesa’s main port, Nina Sulzhenko surveyed the damage wrought by a recent Russian missile strike: The House of Scientists, one of the…
In Texas Border Towns, a ‘Dangerous Combination’ of Heat and Water Cutoffs
On a blistering morning this week, the kitchen sink in Kathy Quilatan’s house was delivering only sputtering water. With temperatures climbing into triple digits most afternoons these days, she knew…
Can Good Journalism Change the World?
The work of conflict journalism is now more dangerous than ever. Does it still serve a purpose? NAISTHE NAIS IS OFFICIAL EDITOR ON NAIS NEWS www.naisnews.com
A Sense of Mission at Risk as Israeli Reservists Resign to Protest New Law
For 33 years, Eitan Herzel has proudly dovetailed his career in Israel’s vaunted tech industry with reserve duty in an elite commando unit of the Israeli military. Several times a…
Wildfires Are Displacing Canada’s Indigenous Communities
In early July, fierce wildfires fueled by dry conditions in northern Quebec laid waste to large swaths of spruce forest, destroying cabins and tourist camps. It also cut off transportation…