Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Joe Biden’s economic agenda is founded on a basic premise: The United States needs to build. To build roads and bridges. To build child care facilities and car-charging stations. To build public transit and…
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Opinion | There Has Never Been a Better Time to Have a Headache
They are mysterious. They are debilitating. They cost millions in lost time and productivity. And the world of science is finally starting to pay attention. They are mysterious. They are debilitating. They cost millions in lost time and productivity. And…
Blockchain firm Core Scientific to go public via $4.3 billion SPAC deal
(Reuters) -Core Scientific will go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in a deal that values the blockchain infrastructure and software firm at $4.3 billion, the companies said on Wednesday. The deal with Power &…
Opinion | The Press Just Got a Big Win. Let’s Make It Permanent.
Press freedom in the United States just got its biggest boost in years with the Department of Justice’s new policy limiting its own power to seize records and notes from journalists. After decades in which federal prosecutors took steps to…
Vaccine Persuasion
When the Kaiser Family Foundation conducted a poll at the start of the year and asked American adults whether they planned to get vaccinated, 23 percent said no. But a significant portion of that group — about one quarter of…
Opinion | The Covid ‘Birthday Effect’ Crossed Political Boundaries
By Anupam B. Jena Dr. Jena is an associate professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School. A defining feature of the American experience of the pandemic has been the high degree of political polarization. There’s also…
Opinion | In Defense of Gossip
In my earliest memory of being an insufferable gossip, I am 5 years old. I am at the top of a very tall playground slide with a friend, both of us cross-legged, as she tells me about how a boy…
Opinion | We Know How to Fix the Clemency Process. So Why Don’t We?
Many things have divided progressive and centrist Democrats, but they are united in the view that prosecutors at the Department of Justice should not be in charge of clemency. During the Democratic primaries, Amy Klobuchar, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Cory…
Your Monday Briefing
Good morning. We’re covering turmoil in Haiti, protests in Cuba and a warning on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Haiti’s turmoil deepens Haiti is feverishly searching for answers after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse last week, while the public…
Opinion | The Ascension of Bernie Sanders
By Maureen Dowd Opinion Columnist BURLINGTON, Vt. — I want to talk to Bernie about Balenciaga. And Britney. And Dua Lipa, Sha’Carri Richardson and Joe Manchin’s houseboat. And whether he prefers red or white horseradish on his gefilte fish. And…