The Sunday Read: ‘The Trillion- Gallon Question’
On the morning of Feb. 7, 2017, two electricians were working on a warning siren near the spillway of Oroville Dam, 60 miles north of Sacramento, when they heard an explosion. As they watched, a giant...
23 Jul 202354min
Can Barbie Be Rebranded as a Feminist Icon?
“Barbie” is premiering this weekend and is trying to pull off a seemingly impossible task: taking a doll best known for reinforcing conventional stereotypes of women and rebranding it as a symbol of f...
21 Jul 202331min
The Man Trying to Save Phoenix From Historic Heat
As a historic heat wave grips much of the world and the United States, no city has become more emblematic of the crisis than Phoenix, where temperatures have exceeded 110 degrees for the past three we...
20 Jul 202323min
How the Birth Control Pill Got Over the Counter
Last week, for the first time in U.S. history, federal regulators approved the sale of a birth control pill without a prescription.Pam Belluck, a health and science correspondent for The Times, explai...
19 Jul 202329min
The Writers’ Revolt Against A.I. Companies
To refine their popular technology, new artificial intelligence platforms like Chat-GPT are gobbling up the work of authors, poets, comedians and actors — without their consent.Sheera Frenkel, a techn...
18 Jul 202329min
China’s Economic Rebound Hits a Wall
When China suddenly dismantled its lockdowns and other Covid precautions last December, officials in Beijing and many investors expected the economy to spring back to life. It hasn’t worked out that w...
17 Jul 202322min
The Sunday Read: ‘The Moral Crisis of America’s Doctors’
Some years ago, a psychiatrist named Wendy Dean read an article about a physician who died by suicide. Such deaths were distressingly common, she discovered. The suicide rate among doctors appeared to...
16 Jul 202331min
How Clarence Thomas Came to Reject Affirmative Action
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the second Black justice to sit on the court after Thurgood Marshall, has spent years opposing affirmative action. When the high court struck down the policy las...
14 Jul 202333min
