By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. As Americans contemplate the prospect of a second winter trapped in the grip of Covid-19, remember that it didn’t need to be this way. […]

Here’s why some people aren’t onboard with the way Americans are taught to think about systemic racism: Even fully understanding that systemic racism exists and why it is important — persistent disparities between Black people and others in access to resources — one may have some questions. Real ones. For me, the biggest question is […]

By Tressie McMillan Cottom Opinion Writer I recently drove by an anti-vaccine rally just outside of Winston-Salem, N.C. It was not very populated. There were maybe a half-dozen people with signs and more onlookers than protesters. Drivers honked their car horns, whether in solidarity or disgust I could not tell. Some of these protests are […]

In the winter of 1848, a 26-year-old Prussian pathologist named Rudolf Virchow was sent to investigate a typhus epidemic raging in Upper Silesia, in what is now mostly Poland. After three weeks of meticulous observation of the stricken populace — during which he carefully counted typhus cases and deaths by age, sex, occupation and social […]

By Kevin D. Williamson Mr. Williamson writes extensively about politics and more at National Review. What happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was not a coup attempt. It was half of a coup attempt — the less important half. The more important part of the coup attempt — like legal wrangling in states and […]

MILAN (Reuters) – Fintech group ION has succeeded in its bid to gain control of Italian credit management and data group Cerved, data from the Italian bourse showed on Thursday. Borsa Italiana said that Cerved’s investors tendered shares equivalent to 78.9% of the bid’s target, exceeding the minimum threshold of two-thirds of the company’s shares […]

Shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, an English teacher in central Washington State assigned her eighth and ninth graders to write poems based on the lead article in The Times. The teacher, Tammy Grubb, said her intention was to give the students a way to process their feelings. The poems were posted in the […]

We’re covering border tensions and crackdowns on protests in Afghanistan and a deadly prison fire in Indonesia. The Taliban’s governing challenges A day after the Taliban named an acting cabinet to lead the nation they spent two decades trying to conquer, the dizzying challenges that accompanied victory were coming into sharp relief. Demonstrators have been […]

Australia was, until recently, heralded for its effective suppression of Covid-19; through strict border closures, prolonged lockdowns and its fortune as a remote island continent, the country was able to avoid a large-scale outbreak. The Delta variant has, however, turned that success upside down. Despite more than half of Australia’s 25 million inhabitants living under […]

(Reuters) -Perrigo Company Plc said on Wednesday it plans to buy HRA Pharma from investment firms Astorg and Goldman Sachs Asset Management in a cash deal valued at 1.8 billion euros ($2.13 billion), as it seeks to expand its consumer healthcare offerings. Perrigo, which has been focusing on its core consumer healthcare business, completed the […]