The world is getting hotter, and we keep reaching for the same short-term fixes. A recent op-ed praising Europe’s belated embrace of air conditioning drew a sharp rebuke from a climate advocate — and his argument cuts to the heart…
The central question raised by this week’s New York campaign finance filings is not whether money flows toward power — it does, reliably and predictably — but whether that flow has become so normalized that it no longer registers as…
The explosions began, as they have every night this week, around 9:30 in the evening local time — a familiar, dreadful rhythm settling over southern Iran. In the port city of Bandar Abbas, residents heard three blasts tear through the…
On a Wednesday afternoon inside a gymnasium on Rikers Island, more than a hundred men in tan uniforms watched Argentina defeat England in a World Cup semifinal, eating salmon and penne alla vodka off catered plates, cheering and groaning in…
A striking new survey from The Wall Street Journal and NORC Research Center has landed with the weight of a verdict: most Americans believe capitalism is not working, democracy is faltering, and the wealthy have seized a level of power…
Two senior executives of Done Global, a venture-backed telehealth startup that marketed itself as a solution to the ADHD treatment gap, have been sentenced to federal prison after orchestrating one of the largest illegal stimulant distribution schemes in recent memory.…
There is a quiet anxiety running beneath the surface of American financial markets right now, one that the cheerful headlines about falling oil prices have done little to dispel. While consumers welcome relief at the pump and equity traders celebrate…
Something significant is happening in American healthcare, and the numbers make it hard to dismiss. A Gallup poll released Tuesday — based on a web survey of 5,065 U.S. adults conducted between May 28 and June 5, 2026 — found…
Russia launched one of its most devastating attacks on Kyiv in weeks early Monday morning, killing at least 15 people in the capital and three more in the surrounding region, wounding dozens, and reducing residential buildings to rubble — all…
Nearly four decades after signing a consent decree with the state of Michigan, chemical manufacturing giant BASF is still struggling to contain contaminated groundwater at its 230-acre Wyandotte plant — and the remediation plan it has now put forward may…