Celebrating the Tennessee Volkswagen workers’ vote to unionize.Credit...Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images Last week, employees at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., voted by almost three to one to join the United Automobile Workers. By the numbers, this wasn’t a big deal: It involved only a few thousand workers in an economy that employs almost 160 million people. But it was an important symbol
I’ve been writing about economics and politics for many years, and have learned to keep my temper. Politicians and policymakers often make decisions that are simply cruel; they also often make decisions that are stupid, damaging the national interest for no good reason. And all too often they make decisions that are both cruel and stupid. Flying into a rage every time that happens would be exhaust
The comments section is closed. To submit a letter to the editor for publication, write to letters@nytimes.com. An animation showing circles that represent Starlink satellites moving over a map of Ukraine, a sped-up view of five minutes of satellite movement. The satellites enter and leave in different directions, and their flight paths include Ukraine’s occupied territory.
His pronouncements could hardly sound more drastic. In interviews and public appearances, Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, has taken on the question of how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society. “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” he said during one online news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of
Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day. Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day. And antisemitic posts referring to Jews
Yuki Iozumi was fretting about how her shoulders might look in a wedding dress. “I feel like I look too muscular,” said the tiny-framed Ms. Iozumi, 20, relating how her friends had told her that practicing karate had changed her body. “I think it’s not so feminine.” Traditional femininity was her goal. Although Ms. Iozumi, a second-year community studies major, wasn’t getting married, she was comp
A days-old head of lettuce has become a caricature of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s tenuous grip on power in Britain.Credit...The Daily Star LONDON — As support withered for Prime Minister Liz Truss of Britain, so did the ball of lettuce. Purchased at a Tesco grocery store for 60 pence (68 cents), the lettuce became a caricature of the Conservative leader’s flailing hold on power, pitted against the
The State Department is investigating the whereabouts of a $5,800 bottle of whiskey the Japanese government gave to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2019, according to two people briefed on the inquiry and a document made public on Wednesday. It was unclear whether Mr. Pompeo ever received the gift, as he was traveling in Saudi Arabia on June 24, 2019, the day that Japanese officials gave it to t
TOKYO — Just four days after Naomi Osaka mounted the stairs to light the Olympic cauldron, presented as a symbol of a new, more inclusive Japan, that image was undermined on Tuesday by a backlash that followed her surprise defeat in Tokyo. Many Japanese were stunned by Ms. Osaka’s third-round loss to Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic after she had been favored to take the women’s tennis go
People crowded together at a bar in El Paso, Tex., in March. The coronavirus spreads through airborne transmission, particularly indoors, the C.D.C. emphasized on Friday. Credit...Justin Hamel for The New York Times Federal health officials on Friday updated public guidance about how the coronavirus spreads, emphasizing that transmission occurs by inhaling very fine respiratory droplets and aeroso
TOKYO — Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics, already facing rising costs and significant public opposition to this summer’s Games, faced a new furor on Wednesday after the president of the Tokyo organizing committee suggested women talk too much in meetings. The president, Yoshiro Mori, stoked a social media backlash after news reports emerged of his comments demeaning women during an executive meeti
Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, boasted in February that the coronavirus was contained in the United States and that “it’s pretty close to airtight.” His private message was more ambiguous.Credit...Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times On the afternoon of Feb. 24, President Trump declared on Twitter that the coronavirus was “very much under control” in the United States,
transcript Highlights From Day 2 of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s HearingOn Tuesday, senators began their questioning of Judge Amy Coney Barrett during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. “Can you hold up what you’ve been referring to in answering our questions? Is there anything on it?” “That letterhead that says United States Senate.” “In English? OK, so in English that means that I interpret th
Praying at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Saturday, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.Credit...Charly Triballeau/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images TOKYO — Four Japanese cabinet ministers, including a rising political star seen as a potential prime minister, marked the 75th anniversary of World War II’s end on Saturday by visiting Yasukuni Shrine, a memorial with strong links to Japan’
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany at a news conference at the chancellery in Berlin on Wednesday about the plans of the German government to slowly ease lockdown restrictions imposed during the coronavirus outbreak.Credit...Pool photo by Christian Marquardt BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday set in motion a plan for Germany to begin lifting social and economic restrictions in place b
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