“The Uninhabitable Earth” by David Wallace-Wells is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet: death by water, death by […]

KUALA LUMPUR/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional will unveil a plan this month to deliver more cash to the government by pruning its stakes in non-strategic assets and dialing back its offshore presence in spots such as London, sources told Reuters. This underlines the urgent need for Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to […]

NASHVILLE — Growing up in a Southern Baptist church, I heard much about “the age of accountability.” Our tradition baptizes only those who confess their own faith in Christ, and the phrase describes the time when a person is mature enough to understand the difference between good and evil — and from that point onward […]

To the Editor: Re “9 Last-Minute Valentine’s Day Ideas” (nytimes.com, Feb. 11): Valentine’s Day is a day scarred for us all. It marks our collective failure to do our most basic duty: protect our children. It is impossible to go through this day with stuffed bears, chocolates and improv comedy when 17 beautiful lives were […]

This article is part of David Leonhardt’s newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. The Green New Deal is not a good piece of policy. But I’m glad it exists. I’m glad it exists because climate change and the stagnation of mass living standards are both defining challenges for this country. […]

Leading a visitor into his barn, about 20 kilometers north of Strathmore, Alta., rancher Darcy Welsh wastes no time making introductions. “Here’s this cow, Lester,” Welsh said. “She’s the one down here eating. We call her Molly.” The Longhorn cow in question is at the centre of a plan to help Welsh’s visitor, Lester Gurnett. […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. President Trump said he was “not happy” with a bipartisan border security compromise negotiated by congressional leaders in time to avert another partial government shutdown. He did not say whether he would veto it. The deal includes over $1 […]

What will President Trump do now? This is the $5.7 billion question confronting Congress as the latest government-funding deal grinds its way toward his desk. Desperate to avoid another shutdown debacle, negotiators on the House-Senate conference committee reached a bipartisan agreement in principle on Monday evening that, among many other measures, would provide $1.375 billion […]

Today is my eldest’s birthday. This day, 19 years ago, I lay awake in bed through the early hours feeling increasingly regular bands of pain spreading across my abdomen while I tried to wrestle with the notion that this was actually, finally, happening. One week overdue – the longest week of your life – I […]

Second of two articles There really isn’t an app for everything. At least not for everyone. Avi Karnani first noticed that tech gap when he was just out of business school, working on mergers and acquisitions for Citigroup Global Markets. “At my corporation there was all this great financial tech available to help them manage […]