A photo taken last month by Nairobi resident Osman Siddiqi shows One Africa Place, a bullet-shaped glass high-rise in Nairobi, framed by the jagged, snowcapped peaks of Mount Kenya, which many residents said they have never seen from the capital city. Osman Siddiqi The picture is stunning. It shows…

The Huge Cost of Waiting to Contain the Pandemic As the numbers show, the timing of social distancing can have an enormous impact on death tolls. The writers are epidemiologists. A truck freezer served as a temporary morgue at a Brooklyn hospital this month. It has been estimated that deaths might…

When this is all over, I will never turn down an invitation to a party. Not that I get many, but, hey, maybe that will change when everything is back to normal. Well, not normal. Back to different? The new normal, I guess. When this is all over, I will never complain about having to go to work.…

On Thursday, March 12th, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, could have insisted that he and his colleagues work through the weekend to hammer out an emergency aid package addressing the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, he recessed the Senate for a long weekend, and returned home to…

Coronavirus Fallout April 9, 2020 by The planning process for marketers is being thrown into disarray. With uncertainty pervading all aspects of business, marketers are forced to pare down their plans and focus only on a month or two head. Annual plans are, for the most part, a relic of a different…

Future of Work April 9, 2020 by It’s been a rough few weeks for an account manager at a creative agency. This person, who requested anonymity, said they’ve worked every weekend since mandatory lockdowns began. It’s starting to get to them. “Work and life is starting to blend together and it’s…

Social Distancing Is a Privilege The idea that this virus is an equal-opportunity killer must itself be killed. Opinion Columnist Recipients lining up to receive free food at the Open Door Church of God in Christ in Brooklyn on Saturday. Credit... Victor J. Blue for The New York Times People like to…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reversed previous guidelines regarding mask-wearing and the prevention of spreading coronavirus. The CDC now advises covering the nose and mouth area with a bandanna or homemade mask, especially in hotspot areas. Surgical masks or the almighty N95…

Ashley Gilbertson / VII / Redu​x Hello fellow New Yorkers. You want to leave. So badly. I know. Me too. But don’t. Don’t do it. It is absurd at this point that it’s even your choice. The bridges should be closed to all but essential traffic. The airports should be shuttered. Instead, Hertz is still…

When Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) called President Trump last Sunday, he delivered a blunt message: If you reopen the nation’s economy too early against the advice of public-health experts, you will own the deaths from the novel coronavirus that follow. Trump’s stalwart ally also warned that the…

During the Vietnam War, the United States had the Five O’Clock Follies, nightly briefings at which American military leaders claimed, citing a variety of bogus statistics, half-truths, and misleading reports from the front, to be winning a war that they were, in fact, losing. Richard Pyle, the…

My day was completely ruined yesterday when I stumbled upon a fun fact that absolutely obliterated my mind. I saw this tweet yesterday that said that not everyone has an internal monologue in their he

Rafael Ruiz always maintained he did not take part in a gang rape in 1984. Rafael Ruiz on Jan. 28. Credit... Daniele Selby for the Innocence Project Four times, Rafael Ruiz recalled, he rejected offers from New York prosecutors to enter a guilty plea and admit to participating in a gang rape on a…

Photo: A.A Newton Stumbling across an exciting new way to eat eggs can be the difference between making time for breakfast and skipping it entirely. I’ve gone through several egg phases in the last few years: easy poached eggs had a good run until I discovered cornstarch eggs, which were recently…

A little over a week ago, after the Trump administration killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, the opinion-havers of Twitter were doing what they do best: arguing about something most people don’t care about. The debate at hand involved Elizabeth Warren ’s shifting public statements on Soleimani’s…

In the middle of September, shortly before the House of Representatives opened its impeachment inquiry against President Trump, I started texting with his personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, to try to arrange a time to get together. I stressed that I wasn’t looking for sound bites; I wanted to talk,…

harpazo_hope / Getty Updated at 2:50 p.m. ET on January 30, 2019. The day after Christmas, I spent seven hours sifting through more than 2,700 unread emails I had accumulated over the previous month. Like many other people, I intended to begin 2019 with a fresh inbox and zero unread messages. Since…

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Impeachment Is Not a Coup And no matter what Trump thinks, the president does not embody the will of the people. Credit... Al Drago for The New York Times In his letter denouncing the impeachment investigation, Pat Cipollone accused Democrats of waging an “illegitimate” effort to “overturn the…

Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, who heard President Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine’s president and was alarmed, testified that he tried and failed to add key details to the rough transcript. Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, arriving Tuesday…

The ruling is a victory for Democrats in their effort to investigate whether Trump obstructed the long-running Russia probe. Former special counsel Robert Mueller | Alex Wong/Getty Images By KYLE CHENEY and JOSH GERSTEIN 10/25/2019 03:31 PM EDT Updated: 10/25/2019 04:47 PM EDT A federal judge on…

Here it comes. After years of constant battling, constitutional crises, divided families, political implosions, and crunching, endless negotiations, events will finally reach their crescendo on Saturday. As hundreds of thousands of Remainers congregate outside parliament to demand a People's Vote,…

Jessica Meir and Christina Koch ventured outside the International Space Station on Friday to replace a power controller. transcript 0:00/0:52 -0:52 transcript The First All-Female Spacewalk Two American astronauts, Jessica Meir and Christina Koch, ventured out of the International Space Station on…

In the last 10 minutes of trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Friday, September 13, someone got very lucky. That’s when he or she, or a group of people, sold short 120,000 “S&P e-minis”—electronically traded futures contracts linked to the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index—when the index…

When Latinx People Use the N-Word Many of us assume our proximity to black people makes it O.K. for us to say the word. It’s not. Mr. Suarez is a music critic and writer. Gina Rodriguez posted (and quickly deleted) a video of herself singing the N-word. Credit... Axelle/Bauer-Griffin, via FilmMagic…

One key to a longer life could be a quieter brain without too much neural activity, according to a new study that examined postmortem brain tissue from extremely long-lived people for clues about what made them different from people who died in their 60s and 70s. “Use it or lose it” has dominated…

President Trump announced abruptly Saturday night that he would no longer host next year’s Group of Seven summit at the Trump National Doral Miami resort in Florida, bowing to criticism for having selected his own property as the venue for a major diplomatic event. Trump was buffeted by two straight…

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Sen. Thom Tillis AP Photo/Susan Walsh Buried in the Washington drama of impeachment, corruption, and foreign policy chaos this past week was a ground-shaking bit of news: New polling and fundraising figures show that Mitch McConnell’s hold on the Senate majority is looking awfully precarious.…

Marissa Powell / Getty The idea that there are five distinct “love languages” may be as familiar to some people today as the idea that there are seven continents, four seasons, or three Stooges—which is a pretty spectacular showing, all told, for a concept that was introduced in a 1992 book by a…

On a Sunday morning in the summer of 2018, Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, a member of the fifth generation of the family that controls the New York Times , was changing the diaper of a member of the sixth, when the phone rang. Another mess: A few days earlier President Trump had invited Sulzberger, in his…

By Natalia Vela Updated July 8, 2019 By Natalia Vela Updated July 8, 2019 ARIES Aries, you strongly believe you are destined for great things. You’re highly motivated and driven, but sometimes people just wish you’d stop worshipping at your own altar. Your highly competitive nature is not only…

Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast From Donald Trump on down, prominent Republicans used part of their weekend to falsely accuse Trump’s hand-picked intelligence community inspector general (IC IG) of secretly changing the requirements for intelligence workers to submit whistleblower…

Haley Sharpe is a little bit famous. This is true for more people right now than ever before in the history of the world, but when you are a 16-year-old in Huntsville, Alabama, it is a very big deal. Being a little bit famous is different from being famous-famous, but it is not that different,…

Aesthetically, the antebellum plantations of the Old South are undeniably beautiful. But they’re built on human degradation. (Shutterstock) I t was not a kind thought that flitted across my mind while I was waiting in the airport in Montreal. The weather was bad, my flight was late, and I was having…

After 25 years in digital design, Khoi Vinh is still pushing creative boundaries. As a Principal Designer at Adobe, he was named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2019 for his pioneering work bringing voice interface tools to designers . Before Adobe, Khoi served as…

Photo: Kevin Hayes This article was featured in One Great Story, New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Fiona Apple rarely leaves her house, which is why she’s yet to see Hustlers , the movie that features a be-sequined Jennifer Lopez pole-dancing to Apple’s…

We feel you, Whoopi. Photo: Kevin Tachman/Getty Images Whoopi Goldberg is an aspirational figure for many reasons. For one, she once chewed the arms off a Barbie doll. For another, she launched her own line of medical-marijuana products to help with menstrual cramps. And in a recent interview,…

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg gave the single most important answer at Tuesday’s Democratic debate . It came after a lengthy section in which the assembled candidates debated different health care plans that have no chance of passing given the composition of the US Senate and then…