A High-Stakes Meeting in Cairo Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and self-styled Middle East negotiator, sat down with Hamas leaders in Egypt on Sunday to advance a U.S.-backed peace road map that calls for the group’s full disarmament and a…
Amazon moved swiftly and with minimal notice on Friday to reinstate binding arbitration for its U.S. customers while simultaneously barring them from joining class-action lawsuits — a sweeping change that significantly weakens consumers’ ability to hold the company accountable in…
What has actually happened here? Nearly 19 million eggs — roughly 1.5 million dozen — are now at the center of a significant food safety crisis after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration elevated their recall to a Class I…
Across the United States, children are being seriously injured and killed on e-bikes and electrified two-wheelers at a rate that researchers describe as a genuine public health crisis — one that a fragmented, state-by-state regulatory landscape is failing to contain.…
There is a quiet but consequential shift embedded in the story of American air conditioning, one that goes well beyond personal comfort or nostalgia. What was once an optional household amenity — a noisy window unit reserved for the bedroom,…
A Federal Agent, a Gas Station, and a Question of Accountability It was the day after Christmas, and a confrontation at a Brookfield gas station would soon test whether a federal immigration enforcement officer could be held to the same…
In the Peoria area of central Illinois, a quiet crisis has been building for years. Working people — and increasingly, older residents on fixed incomes — have found themselves caught between stagnant wages, rising rents, and utility bills that keep…
There is a particular kind of political audacity that announces itself not by retreating after a fight but by promising to take the fight everywhere. Dave Regan, the president of SEIU United Healthcare Workers West, embodies that audacity right now,…
A Slice of Pizza, Then Handcuffs He was sitting at a table in Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, eating a slice of pizza with his teammates, when the agents moved in. Matías Pourrain, a 26-year-old Argentinian midfielder for Miami United Football…
Coffin Homes, Shipping Containers, and $5,000 Rents: The Global Housing Affordability Crisis in 35 Images There is a particular cruelty to a housing crisis: it is slow, structural, and almost entirely preventable. From Hong Kong to Los Angeles, from Seoul’s…