More contagious COVID-19 strain 'just getting started' amid California surge
The summer surge in coronavirus subvariants dubbed FLiRT has given way to increasingly contagious strains, a key reason behind the…
shape
Opinion Comic: Summer may be ending, but we still need ways to beat the heat
Climate change has caused temperatures to soar to record levels for months. My friends and I have been getting creative…
A way out of the profit-driven devastation of Silicon Valley
A public battle has erupted among the titans of Silicon Valley. One camp, led by Elon Musk, PayPal co-founder Peter…
As for the essays, Edwidge Danticat makes clever use of form
Book review We are alone: essays By Edwidge DanticatGraywolf: 192 pages, $26If you purchase books linked on our site, The…
After a fall, I took a risk and flirted with a hot guy in the ER.
I am an 81-year-old widow with an unsteady balance. But my friends have told me that I have the face…
Aubrey Plaza hasn't seen 'White Lotus' and forgot her Max password
The stars are like us (more or less). In an interview on Tuesday with The Wall Street JournalAubrey Plaza shared…
Are Mexican drug cartels as powerful as people think?
MEXICO CITY — Oswaldo Zavala is a Mexican academic and writer whose provocatively titled 2022 book “Drug Cartels Don’t Exist”…
Is Los Angeles ugly? Only to some locals, but visitors still love it
August 27, 2024 3 am Pacific Time To the editor: Your letters about our city’s preparation for the 2028 Olympics…
Small-government conservatives reject Harris' plan to raise prices
August 26, 2024 3 am Pacific Time To the editor: Jonah Goldberg's column on Vice President Kamala Harris' proposal on…
News Analysis: Democrats revive a familiar, but evolved, message: the audacity of hope
Somewhere between President Biden’s decision to drop out of the presidential race last month and Barack and Michelle Obama’s rousing…