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Travelers at New York’s La Guardia Airport in November. Credit…DeSean McClinton-Holland for The New York TimesThe unfairness of the global …
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Citing Covid-19, Climate and Wars, U.N. Asks Donors for Big Jump in Funding
GENEVA — When the United Nations made its last appeal for humanitarian aid funding before the pandemic, it asked donors for about $29 billion …
Chris Cuomo Has a Funny Idea About What Doing His Job Means
Welcome to Cuomo-free America. Well, at least temporarily. We’ve been working up to this for a while. Andrew Cuomo was, of course, compelled to …
U.N. Seats Denied, for Now, to Afghanistan’s Taliban and Myanmar’s Junta
A bid by the new Taliban government in Afghanistan and the junta ruling Myanmar to gain international recognition suffered a blow on Wednesday …
Four Times Opinion Writers Debate Abortion at the Supreme Court: ‘My Guess Is They Overturn’
The oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which involves a Mississippi law that bans nearly …
Explore the Sound of Activism With Tom Morello
Tom Morello has often used his art to advance political causes — as with his alter ego The Nightwatchman, his album “The Atlas Underground” and …
How Twitter Can Fix Itself
Twitter has lagged behind its social media peers in recent years, failing to keep pace in new services, acquisitions, user growth and stock price …
Retail Theft Has Gotten Very Organized
Sixty-nine percent of respondents to the National Retail Federation’s 2021 survey on retail security said that “organized retail crime” had …
Square, Jack Dorsey’s payments company, changes its name to Block.
The payments company Square said on Wednesday that it was changing its name to Block, a nod to one of the main focuses of the company’s chief …
This Dinosaur Found in Chile Had a Battle Ax for a Tail
It’s not every day you find a dinosaur that defended itself from predators with a completely unique weapon. In a study published Wednesday in …