I wish someone had told me that the end of a life is a mathematical equation. At 35, the doctors tell me I have Stage IV colon cancer and a slim chance of survival. Suddenly years dwindle into months, months into days, and I begin to count them. All my dreams, ambitions, friendships, petty fights, […]

A fourth surge of Covid-19 is filling hospitals around the United States, fueled by the relaxing of mitigation measures, the more transmissible Delta variant and lagging vaccination rates. In states and counties where Delta is surging, contact tracers are overwhelmed. But monitoring the spread of the virus remains vital to getting it under control. The […]

(Reuters) -Toast Inc filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, as the start-up that sells software to help restaurants with online ordering looks to cash in on the surge in demand for food delivery since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Toast’s IPO will follow that of U.S. food delivery company DoorDash Inc, […]

By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist If you live in California and haven’t yet voted or made plans to vote on the proposed recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom, please wake up. This is a situation in which apathy could have awesome consequences: California, which isn’t as liberal a state as you may imagine but is nonetheless […]

We’re covering a race against time in Afghanistan and Navalny’s first interview in prison. A rush to evacuate from Kabul Time is the enemy for those trying to evacuate people out of Afghanistan before the Aug. 31 deadline. U.S. and allied planes have flown 19,200 people out of Kabul in the past 24 hours, officials […]

(Reuters) – Four blank-check acquisition vehicles backed by staffing services company ShiftPixy Inc cut the size of their initial public offerings on Wednesday, pointing to dimming investor appetite for such firms. SPACs (special purpose acquisition companies), which raise money from stock market listings with the promise of merging with a private company and taking it […]

Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ “Trauma is much more than a story about something that happened long ago,” writes Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. “The emotions and physical sensations that were imprinted during the trauma are experienced not as memories but as disruptive physical reactions in the present.” [You can listen to this episode […]

FILE PHOTO: A woman stands next to a logo of Swiss specialty chemicals company Clariant ahead of a news conference to present the company’s full-year results, in Zurich, Switzerland, February 14, 2018. REUTERS/Moritz HagerZURICH (Reuters) – Clariant has bought the remaining 70% of Brazilian personal care company Beraca it did not previously own, the Swiss […]

The 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti a week ago has devastated the country, killing at least 2,189 people and upending the lives of about 1.5 million people west of the capital, Port-au-Prince. These people lack medical assistance, shelter, running water and food. To compound this catastrophe, they’ve had to deal with flooding and mudslides […]

More from our inbox: To the Editor: Ross Douthat advises readers on “How to Think Your Way Into Religious Belief” (column, Sunday Review, Aug. 15). It would be grand, though, if he would accept the fact that not everyone is “standing uncertainly on the threshold of whatever faith tradition you feel closest to” and that […]