Fair Bluff is a small North Carolina town in an idyllic setting, amid cornfields and tobacco fields and alongside the verdant Lumber River. But Fair Bluff’s setting may also be dooming the town. Like much of eastern North Carolina, it…
Your Wednesday Briefing
We’re covering President Biden’s address on the end of the U.S. war in Afghanistan and India’s latest G.D.P. numbers. Biden defends Afghanistan withdrawal A day after the final transport plane carrying American forces left the Kabul airport, President Biden hailed…
Opinion | The Road to Recovery From Afghanistan Is a Familiar One
The cascade of crises in Afghanistan has left many Americans wondering if our credibility on the world stage has suffered a mortal blow. Not since the fall of Saigon and the ignominious evacuation of the last Americans in 1975 has…
Restaurant software firm Toast files for U.S. IPO
(Reuters) -Toast Inc filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, as the start-up that sells software to help restaurants with online ordering looks to cash in on the surge in demand for food delivery since the start of…
Opinion | Children With Disabilities Need Sex-Ed Too
In 2018, an N.P.R. investigation sent shock waves through the community of people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, their families and their care providers: according to Department of Justice data, these people are at least seven times more likely to…
Opinion | Could Cyberwar Make the World Safer?
The battles in a global cyberwar are visible only through periodic glances in the rearview mirror: Indra, Colonial Pipeline, SolarWinds, WannaCry. Such an episodic view obscures the fact that this jousting by nation-states, criminal networks and private actors is happening…
Opinion | To Save His Presidency, Biden Must Tell the Truth About Afghanistan
For days now, the news media has likened the chaotic end of our misadventure in Afghanistan, and the awful images of terrified people scrambling onto planes at the Kabul airport, to the final exit from South Vietnam. The comparison is…
Your Thursday Briefing
We’re covering the Taliban’s violent response to protesters and Israel’s Covid surge despite high vaccination rates. The Taliban met their first protests with violence Afghanistan’s new rulers fired into the crowd in the northeastern city of Jalalabad and beat protesters…
Deutsche Post to acquire sea freight forwarder Hillebrand for $1.8 billion
FILE PHOTO: A Deutche Post sign stands in front of the Bonn Post Tower, the headquarters of German postal and logistics group Deutsche Post DHL, in Bonn, Germany March 11, 2015. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay DUESSELDORF (Reuters) -Deutsche Post said on Tuesday…
Opinion | Can America Really Drive Its Way Out of Climate Change?
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Tuesdays and Thursdays. In the not-too-distant future, if the White House gets its way, stopping for gas could be as antiquated as connecting…