To make the bison look bad takes some work-intensive phrasing. If one is straining to give a bison hunt a scientific-sounding rationale, the creatures’ natural behaviors raise alarm over “the potential for increasing impacts” on park resources, “erosion potential,” “soil disturbance,” “potential
The American economy has come a long way. It was only 18 months ago when the coronavirus pandemic struck in full force, igniting a devastating recession. But as the recent wave of infections and hospitalizations from the highly contagious Delta variant of
To the Editor: Re “Evidence Disputes U.S. Claim of ISIS Bomb in Kabul Drone Strike” (front page, Sept. 11): Congratulations to The New York Times for proving the impossibility of conducting victimless airstrikes in the middle of crowded cities. While the motivation
Mr. Okun explains the trade-off with a metaphor: Providing a social safety net is like using a leaky bucket to redistribute water among people with different amounts. While bringing water to the thirstiest may be noble, it is also costly as some
Produced by ‘The Argument’ It’s the start of another N.F.L. season, the time of year Americans turn on their televisions to watch their favorite teams make spectacular plays and their favorite players commit incredible acts of athleticism. But is America’s favorite pastime
Like many working mothers, I struggled with work-life balance long before Covid. I was overwhelmed and exhausted, and despite having a secure job as a senior manager at New York’s Department of City Planning with good benefits, decent pay, reasonable hours and
Two days before Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana in late August, Sarah DeBacher was trying to get her kids to stop dawdling and start packing. She needed them to understand the urgency of why they had to evacuate their home in
Jefferson Cowie, a historian at Vanderbilt, argued in an email that “there are three dimensions to the question of abortion.” The first, he notes, is an obvious and genuine concern for fundamentalist Christian morality among the Southern polity. Some are clearly motivated
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — For weeks, President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has been urging his supporters to take to the streets. So on Sept. 7, Brazil’s Independence Day, I was half expecting to see mobs of armed people in yellow-and-green jerseys, some
Batiste, a former gang member, was the subject of a 2017 profile in The Wall Street Journal. “I’ve been a drug dealer, I’ve been a thug, a hustler,” Batiste said. Around the time of his death, he’d been working in his community
On a 2005 trip to Iraq, I wrote a column about spending a night on the U.S.S. Chosin, which commanded the U.S. Navy task force off the coast of Iraq. There I interviewed Mustapha Ahansal, a Moroccan American sailor who acted as
