PARIS — For the past 13 years, I have had the privilege of waking up and falling asleep in the shadow of Notre-Dame Cathedral. I live midway on an invisible line linking Simone de Beauvoir’s attic room on 11 rue de la Bûcherie, where she lived after World War II, and the south flank of […]

This article is part of David Leonhardt’s newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. My father was a French teacher, in middle schools and high schools, and he took me to Paris when I was 11 years old, in 1984. Before that trip, I’d never been more than a few hours’ […]

To the Editor: Re “A Mystery Train Takes No Passengers, but It Eases Gridlock” (news article, April 8): The best way to substantially reduce congestion on our central business district streets and limited-access highways is finally to build the rail freight tunnel under New York Harbor connecting New Jersey to Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge Branch and […]

Good morning, We start today with breaking news out of Paris, the rise of hard-line Islam in Indonesia’s political sphere and all things “Game of Thrones.” A fire is ravaging Notre-Dame Thousands of people watched in shock from the banks of the Seine, and many more were riveted to television screens, as flames tore through […]

I’m from a small town on the Pacific coast of El Salvador. You probably have never heard of my town, but I’m sure you’ve been hearing a lot about how people from my country are fleeing and are trying to seek asylum in the United States. I never really wanted to leave my home. My […]

This article is part of David Leonhardt’s newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. Amazon. Delta Air Lines. Chevron. IBM. General Motors. Molson Coors. Eli Lilly. What do these companies have in common? They paid no federal taxes last year. Thanks to President Trump’s 2017 tax law, the number of Fortune […]

(Reuters) – Waste Management Inc said on Monday it would buy smaller rival Advanced Disposal Services Inc for about $3 billion, as the top waste management services provider looks to expand its footprint in the eastern United States. The offer of $33.15 represents a premium of about 22 percent to Advanced Disposal’s closing price of […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning, We start today with Google data used by law enforcement, the Trump administration’s plan for when the Mueller report drops and an elite runner for whom running is not everything. U.S. police draw on location data collected by Google The technology giant tracks […]

To the Editor: Re “Does Anyone Collect Old Emails?” (Op-Ed, April 6): Peter Funt raises a fascinating question about how memories get preserved in the digital age. The digital age actually lets us live with our memories. We have a computer in our kitchen/family room. The sleep screen randomly displays thousands of photos. They just […]

Canadians are not getting enough sleep — and we really need it. “We are a chronically sleep-deprived society,” Alanna McGinn, the owner of Good Night Sleep Site, told Global News. “It really is a growing concern.” Data shows that about one in four Canadians are dissatisfied with the quality of their sleep, and an even greater […]