The Sunday Read: ‘Risking Everything to Offer Abortion Access Across State Lines’
In states where abortion is severely limited or illegal, clinicians face imminent prosecution if they continue to provide abortions. What is much less clear is what happens if providers in blue states...
15 Jan 202355min
The Presidents and the Classified Documents
The Justice Department is scrutinizing how both former President Donald J. Trump and President Biden came to have classified records after they left office.Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appointe...
13 Jan 202320min
The California Floods
For weeks, a string of major storms have hit California, causing extreme flooding. While it might seem as if rain should have a silver lining for a state stuck in a historic drought, the reality is fa...
12 Jan 202326min
A Jan. 6 Moment for Brazil
After Jair Bolsonaro lost October’s Brazilian presidential election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, many believed that the threat of violence from the defeated leader’s supporters would recede. They wer...
11 Jan 202331min
The Southwest Airlines Meltdown
Air travel was a mess over the holidays — in the last 10 days of December, 30,000 flights were canceled. While every airline was affected, one stood out: Southwest, which over the past few decades has...
10 Jan 202328min
Speaker McCarthy. But at What Cost?
Representative Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become speaker of the House turned into a rolling disaster last week, played out over five long days and 15 rounds of voting. Today, the inside story of how it w...
9 Jan 202334min
The Sunday Read: ‘She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away’
On Christmas Eve in 1971, Juliane Diller, then 17, and her mother boarded a flight in Lima, Peru. She was headed for Panguana, a biological research station in the belly of the Amazon, where for three...
8 Jan 202324min
Consider the Burying Beetle. (Or Else.)
The current level of biodiversity loss is extraordinary in human history: The global rate of species extinction is at least tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10 million y...
6 Jan 202325min
