When You Go to the Loo, a Bat Might Go Boo
Imagine you are at a research camp in the Tanzanian grasslands and you need to relieve yourself. You walk to the nearby pit toilet: a concrete …
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Sexual Abuse Revelations Accelerate Sense of a French Church in Retreat
PARIS — The Catholic Church in France was once so powerful that it was considered a state within a state. In Roman Catholicism’s global hierarchy …
England reduces its ‘red list’ for travel restrictions to just seven countries.
England has reduced to just seven the number of “red list” countries that it considers the highest coronavirus risk and from which it requires …
Your Friday Briefing
Senator Joe Manchin talking with reporters after voting to raise the debt ceiling.Credit…T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York TimesSenate agrees …
What if Things Are About to Get Better?
That was the summer of our discontent. Early this year many of us were expecting to see dramatic improvements in the quality of our lives …
Here’s the Mind-Set That’s Tearing Us Apart
The world is complicated, and our minds have limited capacity, so we create categories to help us make sense of things. We divide, say, the …
Why Does Congress Keep Playing Chicken With the Debt Ceiling?
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On Thursday morning, with only 11 …
Let Me Tell You What It Was Like to Work at Ozy
It was 2007 and I was in some kind of a souk in Tel Aviv. A three-card monte dealer was encouraging passers-by to “find the red” as he lifted and …
The Enduring Importance of the 1965 Immigration Act
What follows is an excerpt from my book “The Loneliest Americans,” which will be published on Oct. 12. (I also published an excerpt this week in …
President Biden urges large companies to impose vaccine mandates.
President Biden traveled to Chicago on Thursday to encourage large companies and other organizations to impose vaccine requirements for their …