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A police officer talks to a driver at a checkpoint at the German-Czech border near Bad Gottleuba, Germany.. Germany has reintroduced border controls from the Czech Republic and Austria because of the increasing cases of coronavirus variants.

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The man who turned credit card points into an empire.

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The movie “Hillbilly Elegy” and whiteness in America.

How Texas’ Drive for Energy Independence Set It Up for Disaster

The dominance of the energy industry and the state’s “Republic of Texas” ethos became a huge liability when energy stopped flowing to millions of residents.
The near-collapse of Texas’ electrical grid can be traced in part to its decision in 1999 to embark on an extensive experiment in electrical deregulation.

What a Texas Plumber Faces Now: A State Full of Burst Pipes

Since a winter storm and hard freeze knocked out power and heat throughout the state, homeowners have swamped plumbers with urgent repair calls.

This Texan’s lights stayed on during the storm. Now he owes $16,752.

Tough Sanctions, Then a Mysterious Last-Minute Turnabout Under Trump

The U.S. imposed sanctions on an Israeli billionaire in 2017. In Donald Trump’s final days in office, they were rolled back without explanation.

Dan Gertler, an Israeli billionaire, at an open-pit mining operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A Ripple Effect of Loss: U.S. Covid Deaths Approach 500,000

No other country has counted so many deaths in the pandemic, with each loss leaving untold numbers of mourners.

On the Post-Pandemic Horizon, Could That Be … a Boom?

Signs of economic life are picking up in the U.S., and mounds of cash are waiting to be spent as the virus loosens its grip.

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Paterson, N.J.

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Denver

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Philadelphia

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Mulhouse, France

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Manhattan

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Fauci Warns Americans Might Need to Wear Masks for Another Year

Dr. Anthony Fauci also predicted the country would return to “a significant degree of normality” by fall. Catch up on Covid-19 news.

France Hired McKinsey to Help in the Pandemic. Then Came the Questions.

After previously undisclosed contracts were revealed, the company has become a magnet for criticism in France’s vaccine rollout.

Coronavirus Shaming Is on the Rise in Canada

Concern over public shaming is becoming so prevalent in some Canadian provinces that doctors fear it is driving coronavirus cases underground.

Where states are reporting vaccines given

United States ›	On Feb. 21	14-day change
New cases	55,195	–44%
New deaths	1,247	–32%

How Investigative Journalism Flourished in Hostile Russia

A new wave of news outlets has used conventional, and unconventional, methods to pierce the veil of Putin’s power, writes Ben Smith, our media columnist.

The Story of ‘Team Molly’

When her daughter Molly was hospitalized, Kaye Steinsapir began a conversation among thousands of strangers about life, death, family, religion and ritual.

Molly and Kaye Steinsapir, in a photo provided by the family.

Scientists Engineered This Vegan Dinner in a Lab. My Family Ate It Up.

Start-ups are engineering faux meats, eggs and dairy products that conjure a future in which we move from farm-to-table to lab-to-table.

The writer's menu featured a gem lettuce salad with lab-made labneh and fake bacon made from the root systems of fungi.

Opinion

Naomi Klein

Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal

Small government is no match for a crisis born of the state’s twin addictions to market fixes and fossil fuels.

People waited in line to enter a grocery store in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday amid widespread power outages.

Charles M. Blow

The 4 Great Migrations

America as we have come to know it is most likely a thing of the past.

Anne Anlin Cheng

What This Wave of Anti-Asian Violence Reveals About America

Nicholas Kristof

What Are Sperm Telling Us?

Maureen Dowd

The Tale of the Untamable Shrew

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Support the Resistance in Myanmar

Katie Engelhart

‘We Are Going to Keep You Safe, Even if It Kills Your Spirit’

Pamela Paul

Your Kids Aren’t Too Old for Picture Books, and Neither Are You

David Quammen

And Then the Gorillas Started Coughing

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The Lessons of the Texas Power Disaster

Jake Halpern

Desperate for Distraction, We Chose Dragons

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Seven Hundred Leagues Beneath Titan’s Methane Seas

Mars, Shmars; this voyager is looking forward to a submarine ride under the icebergs on Saturn’s strange moon.

The Lockdown Showed How the Economy Exploits Women. She Already Knew.

The scholar Silvia Federici has been warning for decades of what happens when we undervalue domestic labor.

Shlomo Hillel, Who Helped 120,000 Jews Flee Iraq, Dies at 97

Working undercover, he used bribes, fake visas and a network of smugglers to bring refugees to Israel in the late 1940s and early ’50s.

Shlomo Hillel in 2018. A former Israeli diplomat and minister, he had been an operative for the Haganah, helping to smuggle Jews out of Iraq.

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Lorraine Luongo of Myrtle Beach, S.C., has filed an arbitration claim against Airbnb seeking to recover the money she lost. — Leslie Ryann McKellar for The New York Times

Airbnb Is Driving Hosts Elsewhere With Costly Pandemic Policies

Hurt by refunds, some are trying to cut the site out of bookings or taking legal action. The company says it is working to reduce tensions.

10 Years After Christchurch Quake, a Hush Where 8,000 Homes Once Stood

The wreckage left in New Zealand’s second-largest city was razed. Now, a swath nearly twice the size of Central Park is being reclaimed by nature.

Gathering pears in the so-called red zone, an area in suburban Christchurch, New Zealand, that was damaged by the disaster.

‘Allen v. Farrow’ Describes ‘Inappropriately Intense’ Behavior

The new HBO documentary series takes another look at Dylan Farrow’s sexual abuse allegations against her adoptive father, Woody Allen.

Woody Allen, center, with Dylan Farrow, left, and Ronan Farrow, in a scene from the docuseries.

Art Mystery Solved: Who Wrote on Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’?

The authorship of the tiny inscription, “Could only have been painted by a madman,” was disputed. Curators say the artist definitely wrote it himself.

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