I was speaking recently to Matt Dunne, founder of the Center on Rural Innovation, which promotes digital economic development in small-town America, and he was telling me about a Vermont community near his home with a great public library: “You could drive by on any Sunday and the parking lot would be full,” he said. […]

After the Electoral College vote on Monday affirming his election, Joe Biden declared that “nothing, not even a pandemic or an abuse of power, can extinguish” the “flame of democracy.” Mr. Biden’s speech and the vote capped a series of victories for democratic institutions, including the Supreme Court’s dismissal of a Texas lawsuit that sought […]

All I seem to want to do these days is stare mindlessly at health care workers and the elderly getting stuck in the arm with a needle. Over the last week I’ve watched countless videos of men and women shoveling dry ice into packages. I’ve gawked at footage of masked individuals hauling boxes with fork […]

Op-Docs Why are we so unprepared for one of life’s inevitable transitions? transcript Menopause Stories ‘There are still many women who think that menopause is the end of your life.’ I didn’t think for me at any stage that I would suffer as much as I am. And I had no idea. In my family, […]

Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. The Covid vaccine is here, and we explain how it arrived with stunning speed. Before Covid-19, the record for the fastest vaccine development — for mumps — was four years. Most vaccines have required more than a decade of research and experimentation. Yet […]

Early this month, a group of Democratic members of Congress introduced an Abolition Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Why, in the year 2020, does the Constitution need an amendment dealing with the abolition of slavery? Wasn’t that accomplished over a century and a half ago? The problem is that the Thirteenth Amendment, ratified in 1865, […]

Two of the most intense factions in our politics, the anti-Trump Resistance with its claim to be standing against fascism and the conservatives trying to delegitimize Joe Biden’s victory with claims of widespread voter fraud, agree on almost nothing, but they do agree on one point: The Trump administration was successfully undermined — the Trump […]

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS | How To Kara’s conversation with Georgia’s Secretary of State was a doozy. She called up Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman to discuss. A podcast about power, hosted by Kara Swisher (@karaswisher). Every Monday and Thursday, from New York Times Opinion. Listen and subscribe. […]

Throughout Donald Trump’s presidency, there’s been an argument on the left over the sort of threat he poses. The American left’s most famous figures — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Noam Chomsky — saw Trump as an authoritarian who could, if re-elected, destroy American democracy for good. But another strain of left opinion viewed Trump’s fascistic […]

(Reuters) -U.S. regional lenders Huntington Bancshares Inc and TCF Financial Corp have entered an all-stock deal to create a company worth about $22 billion in market value, the companies said on Sunday. The merger will create a combined holding company and a bank that would operate under the name of Huntington. The companies did not […]