Read Your Way Through Maine
Read Your Way Around the World is a series exploring the globe through books. In American fiction, my state is code for outpost. Maine is where you send a character…
Idalia Could Become Another Multibillion-Dollar Superstorm
A stormy forecast for insurance Hurricane Idalia, strengthened to a Category 3 storm on Wednesday morning, packing soaking rains and destructive winds of up to 125 miles per hour, as…
CNN Names Mark Thompson Its Next Chief Executive
CNN announced Wednesday that Mark Thompson, the former chief executive of The New York Times Company and director general of the BBC, would be its next chief executive and chairman.…
Blue Supermoon: When and How to See the Lunar Event
The lunar fanfare of August is wrapping up with a treat: a blue supermoon that will occur on Wednesday at 9:36 p.m. Eastern time. The blue moon is the second…
Salmon Die in Droves as Climate Change Burns Canada
The salmon were once so plentiful in the river that old-timers talk about having been able to cross on the backs of fish so thick they were like steppingstones. Such…
Gabon Coup: Officers Say They Are Seizing Power
A group of military officers said they had seized power in the oil-rich Central African nation of Gabon early Wednesday, overturning the results of a disputed election that returned the…
Macron Tries Outreach to Head Off Further Protests
For over six years, President Emmanuel Macron has struggled to convince the French that he is a man of dialogue. He went on a countrywide listening tour to calm the…
A Category 4 Hurricane – The New York Times
Hurricane Idalia intensified overnight and is now a Category 4 storm heading toward Florida’s Gulf Coast. It has wind speeds of 130 miles an hour and is expected to make…
Henry Timms Wants to Tear Down Walls at Lincoln Center
For evidence that all is not business as usual at Lincoln Center these days, look no further than its stately travertine campus, which, for much of the summer, was dominated…
Opinion | Not Everything We Call Cancer Should Be Called Cancer
“You have cancer.” Ask anyone who has been told this: It’s terrifying. That’s one reason we need to rethink what we call cancer. Despite amazing advances in our understanding of…
Republican Women, Fearing Backlash on Abortion, Pivot to Birth Control
She had barely opened her town hall to questions when Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a Republican from a competitive district in Iowa, was pressed to defend her opposition to abortion rights.…
The Object of Ukraine’s Desire: F-16s From the West. But It’s Tricky.
The F-16 fighter jets would not be delivered to Ukraine until next year, but that did not dissuade President Volodymyr Zelensky from hopping into one last week in the Netherlands…
Falsehoods Follow Close Behind This Summer’s Natural Disasters
As natural disasters and extreme environmental conditions became more commonplace around the world this summer, scientists pointed repeatedly to a shared driver: climate change. Conspiracy theorists pointed to anything but.…
Opinion | The Trump Trial Date Is a Big Mistake
I intended to write a normal horse-race column this week, about what we can glean from the polling that came out after the first Republican debate. The emphasis was going…