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Oregon Decriminalized Drugs. Voters Now Regret It.
In 2020, motivated to try a different way to combat drug use, Oregon voted to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of hard drugs including f…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Billionaires’ Secret Plan to Solve California’s Housing Crisis
For years, a mysterious company has been buying farmland on the outskirts of Silicon Valley, eventually putting together a plot twice the size of San…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Sunday Read: ‘Can Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars?’
That people will travel to Mars, and soon, is a widely accepted conviction within NASA. Rachel McCauley, until recently the acting deputy director of…
2 years, 1 month ago
The State of the Union
President Biden used his State of the Union address last night to push for re-election and to go on the attack against Donald J. Trump, his likely ad…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Miseducation of Google’s A.I.
When Google released Gemini, a new chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, it quickly faced a backlash — and unleashed a fierce debate about whet…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Unhappy Voters Who Could Swing the Election
Millions of voters in states across the country cast their ballots in the presidential primary on Super Tuesday, leaving little doubt that the Novemb…
2 years, 1 month ago
A Growing Famine and a Deadly Aid Delivery in Gaza
Late last week, an effort to get food into northern Gaza turned deadly, as thousands of desperate Gazans descended on aid trucks, and Israeli troops …
2 years, 1 month ago
An F.B.I. Informant, a Bombshell Claim, and an Impeachment Built on a Lie
A single piece of unverified intelligence became the centerpiece of a Republican attempt to impeach President Biden.
Michael S. Schmidt, an investigat…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Sunday Read: ‘How Tom Sandoval Became the Most Hated Man in America’
At the end of a quiet, leafy street in the Valley in Los Angeles, the reality TV star Tom Sandoval has outfitted his home with landscaping lights tha…
2 years, 2 months ago
Biden, Trump and a Split Screen at the Texas Border
President Biden and Donald J. Trump both made appearances at the southern border on Thursday as they addressed an issue that is shaping up to be one …
2 years, 2 months ago