There’s reason for optimism on the coronavirus pandemic: The number of new Covid-19 cases is dropping, and 98.2 million doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered in the United States. But a decline in the number of coronavirus tests being conducted threatens this progress, because those tests are vital to tracing the path and velocity […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British sportswear retailer JD Sports Fashion has entered markets in central and eastern Europe by agreeing to buy 60% of Poland’s Marketing Investment Group (MIG), it said on Friday.FILE PHOTO: A JD Sports sign at one of the company’s stores in London, Britain, April 11, 2017. REUTERS/Neil Hall/File PhotoJD said last month […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British sportswear retailer JD Sports Fashion has entered markets in central and eastern Europe by agreeing to buy 60% of Poland’s Marketing Investment Group (MIG), it said on Friday.FILE PHOTO: A JD Sports sign at one of the company’s stores in London, Britain, April 11, 2017. REUTERS/Neil Hall/File PhotoJD said last month […]

More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “Mask Mandate Ends in Texas, and Workers Ponder Illness Threat” (news article, March 11): This Texan will continue to wear a mask and to distance from others, using only curbside pickup and package delivery. Unlike the Texas governor, we are not all selfish, ignorant and uncaring. I […]

We Made <br> Neighbors<br> Into a <br> Community When we started our mutual aid initiatives on the South Side of Chicago, we wanted to blur the line between ‘recipient’ and ‘volunteer.’ Supported by In Chicago, groups of volunteers gave us a glimpse of a society where neighbors rely on one another. By Maira Khwaja, Trina Reynolds-Tyler, Dominique […]

When I set out to report a book on the problem of growing regional inequality in America, I did not expect that it would involve spending several hours on a cold winter day standing inside a large dumpster. But there I was, helping a man named Keith Taylor toss all manner of trash from a […]

There is no rule that says American political parties can’t die, and there was a time when it was quite common. And not just in the 19th century either. The first decades of the 20th century, for example, saw the rise and fall of the Socialist Party, with Eugene V. Debs at its head. The […]

Readers discuss the lack of any Republican support for the Senate bill, despite wide public support. To the Editor: “Stimulus Win Shows Quest to Cooperate Is All but Lost,” by Carl Hulse (news analysis, March 7), proposed that bipartisanship is dead because party leaders could not work past partisan politics on the stimulus plan. While […]

To the Editor: Re “End the Fight Over Charter Schools,” by Eve L. Ewing (Op-Ed, Feb. 23): Why do we allow two separate but seemingly parallel systems of education, using scarce public funds that are taken from traditional public schools to fund charters, a seeming experiment gone awry? Why do we allow one entity that […]

When the pandemic hit I was 35 and in the surprise athletic prime of my life. First I broke three hours in the marathon, then I was getting even faster. I captured every mile, every day, in a little spreadsheet. Sometimes I ran 100 miles a week, before work, after work, like a game of […]