A Slow-Motion Climate Disaster: The Spread of Barren Land
CARNAÚBA DOS DANTAS, Brazil — The land has sustained the Dantas family for more than 150 years, bearing fields of cotton, beanstalks up to a …
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Your Friday Briefing
President Biden laid out a winter Covid plan while at the National Institutes of Health on Thursday.Credit…Pete Marovich for The New York …
Congress Gets the (Working) Christmas It Deserves
After a stressful, fractious and at times terrifying 2021, rarely has the congressional community more desperately needed a nice long holiday …
Abortion: The Voice of the Ambivalent Majority
If you want to know why our politics are so awful, check out our public debates about abortion in the past 72 hours. Everybody is sensing where …
How Saboteurs Took Over the G.O.P.
With everything else going on — the likely imminent demise of Roe v. Wade, the revelation that Donald Trump knew he had tested positive for the …
Overdoses Have Skyrocketed During the Pandemic. How Do We Stop Them?
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On Tuesday, New York became the …
Many Migrants Are Quickly Expelled, but Others Can Stay. Here’s Why.
The Biden administration is fighting in court to preserve a Trump-era public health rule that uses the coronavirus pandemic to justify quickly …
Iron World Appears to Be Lightest Exoplanet Ever Detected
The sport of hunting for exoplanets, or planets around other star systems, has a new featherweight champion — a tiny world designated GJ 367 b …
Prints Long Thought to Be Bear Tracks May Have Been Made by Human Ancestor
Fossilized footprints that were found in Tanzania in the 1970s, dismissed for decades as having been made by bears, may have been left by an …
Angela Merkel’s Parting Message to Germany: Trust One Another
BERLIN — In a ceremonial military send-off to mark the end of her 16 years as chancellor, Angela Merkel left Germans with a final message on …