Here’s what you need to know: Health care workers performed C.P.R. on a Covid-19 patient at a hospital in Houston this summer.Credit…Callaghan O’Hare/Reuters In April, the coronavirus killed more than 10,000 people in New York City. By early May, nearly 50,000 nursing home residents and their caregivers across the country had died. But as the […] More
WASHINGTON — Miles Taylor, who revealed on Wednesday that he was the anonymous author of a New York Times Op-Ed article in 2018 that was critical of President Trump, is a lifelong Republican whose service as a senior Homeland Security official in the Trump administration led him to endorse former Vice President Joseph R. Biden […] More
Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. I’m Lisa Lerer, your host. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. Less than a week before Election Day, more than 74 million votes have already been cast. The presidential candidates are making their final sprints through […] More
It’s October surprise season — but so far, 2020’s surprises have paled in significance to those that roiled the 2016 presidential contest. And the latest underwhelming reveal is Wednesday’s unmasking of “Anonymous,” the former Trump administration official who wrote a widely read 2018 New York Times op-ed titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside […] More
Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. Virus hospitalizations keep rising. The Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series. And Democrats and Republicans are in an intense fight over voting. Democrats and Republicans are engaged in a furious struggle over voting rights. In almost every instance, Democrats are trying to […] More
The coronavirus pandemic, which has focused greater attention on health care and spurred a heated race for a Covid-19 vaccine, has also ratcheted up interest in life science real estate in New York. The city had already been trying to play catch-up with other life science powerhouses such as Boston, San Diego and San Francisco. […] More
Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. Election Day is a week away. There’s new evidence of water on the moon. And Amy Coney Barrett is a Supreme Court justice. Over the past 32 years — a period that includes the naming of every current Supreme Court Justice — Democrats […] More
Newspaper endorsements have lost a lot of their weight over the years because the media has become so overwhelmingly liberal. When papers like the Washington Post and the New York Times endorse Democrats over and over and over, it gets to a point where no one really cares. So when a newspaper endorses a Republican, […] More
High-quality, crusty sourdough loaves shipped directly to your door are no longer uncommon. Manresa Bread, with several locations in the California Bay Area, has mailed its breads nationwide since 2016, but now the bakery has added a flaky, buttery and sugary Breton confection, kouign-amann (pronounced queen-am-AHN). They make it in an eight-inch round. The kouign-amann […] More
Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. Spain orders a curfew. The Senate prepares to confirm Amy Coney Barrett. And we look at the good and bad of Trump’s economy. President Trump is not running a re-election campaign based mostly on policy. He has released no agenda for a second […] More
“There is more raw material here than anywhere else in the world,” Wilson said. Sitting in the backyard of his apartment in Ridgewood, Queens, wearing a flannel jacket and glasses with thick frames, Wilson has a soft-spoken presence. But his apparent passiveness masks a finely attenuated eye for the absurdity of life in the city. […] More
Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. A few weeks ago, I got a great email from a reader in Los Angeles who said that she’s been leaning into sheet-pan dinners in this stressy time, meals that “feel deluxe but are secretly super easy”: gnocchi roasted with squash; Santa Maria tri-tip with potatoes and broccoli […] More
