To the Editor: Re “Pilots Followed Boeing Checklist Before Crashing” (front page, April 5): Sensor failure is one of the most common causes of accidents. In the power and chemical industries, the following control strategy has reduced the number of such accidents a hundredfold. For all critical measurements, we use three sensors employing different principles […]

The Federal Reserve, along with Congress, failed to take sufficient steps to revive the economy after the 2008 financial crisis. One simple measure of the inadequacy of the government’s response is that inflation has remained persistently below the 2 percent annual rate the Fed regards as optimal, a sign of an underachieving economy. Some liberals […]

Many have heard of the rise of drug-resistant infections. But few know about an issue that’s making this threat even scarier in the United States: the shortage of specialists capable of diagnosing and treating those infections. Infectious diseases is one of just two medicine subspecialties that routinely do not fill all of their training spots […]

Second of two articles A man texts an online ad for sex. He gets a text back: “Hi Papi. Would u like to go on a date?” There’s a conversation: what he’d like the woman to do, when and where to meet, how much he will pay. After a few minutes, the texts stop. It’s […]

TANGIER, Morocco — On a recent balmy spring afternoon, a group of Muslim Moroccan students visited Rabbi Akiba, a jewelbox of a synagogue down an arched passageway in the Siaghine area of Tangier. Constructed in the mid-19th century, the synagogue underwent a meticulous renovation and recently reopened as a museum. The students peered at the […]

To the Editor: Re “New York Plan to Unjam Roads Opens a Path for Clogged Peers” (front page, April 2): The population density of New York City creates the ideal conditions for a car-free zone. Residents can commute by subway and borrow cars for longer trips from shared lots, and defunct light-rail systems (trolleys) could […]

This article is part of David Leonhardt’s newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. House Democrats may not be able to force President Trump to release his tax returns. But the Democrats can keep reminding Americans that Trump really does not want the public to know what’s in those returns. As […]

Clancy Barracks in Islandbridge was sold back in the noughties to private Irish investors for residential development, ie homes to sell. The construction cost of adaptation and new build wasn’t going to be cheap. Loans were undertaken, and then there was that cliff drop in construction we all suffered from in some form. Last year, […]

At just after 5am, the catering staff wheeled in a trolley laden with bottles of Johnnie Walker Red Label whisky. It was in the good old/bad old days of EU marathon farming talks which rarely, if ever, ended before breakfast. That EU decision-making process was called “consensus by attrition” – “we’ll keep you at it […]

It is ironic that the divestment primary school project of the Archdiocese of Dublin is running into trouble not from the Catholic clergy, but from entrenched ultra-conservative lay elements. Hopefully the scare tactics used by these people will be resisted by reasonable Catholics who will vote for divestment. The use of State schooling by Catholics […]