Meet the Heroes Fighting on the Front Lines Against Covid-19

The New York Times Presents: ‘They Get Brave’ Producers/Directors Samantha Stark, Alexandra Garcia, John Pappas, Lora Moftah Watch on Friday at 10 p.m. on FX and streaming on Hulu. As the first Covid-19 patients started showing up in New York City emergency rooms, the doctors and nurses on the front …...Read More

California, After Riding a Boom, Reckons With Hard Times

A few weeks ago, those plans seemed sound. Back then, on the sunny Friday afternoon when bars in Alameda County were allowed to reopen, the Golden Squirrel’s patio tables, spaced about eight feet apart, were full of patrons enjoying their first trips to a bar since shelter-in-place orders took effect. …...Read More

Riots Long Ago, Luxury Living Today

WASHINGTON — At the corner of 14th and U Streets Northwest, where the anger first simmered in what became Washington’s devastating 1968 riots, the going rent for a one-bedroom today is about $2,500 a month. That sum buys concierge services, rooftop terrace access and proximity to any number of niche …...Read More

An Unexpected Struggle for Trump: Defining an Elusive Biden

“It is going to be more difficult for the Trump campaign to go after a man who really is a centrist, has dealings with people across the aisle and knows how to talk to people who disagree with him,” said Priscilla Southwell, a professor emerita of political science at the …...Read More

A Reporter’s Lonely Mission When the Writing Is on the Wall

It was just one of many coronavirus moments that Mr. Brandt has been chronicling. The parades outside Pottstown Hospital to show support for health care workers. The impact of isolation on people struggling with substance abuse. The shortage of laptop computers for disadvantaged homebound students — that is, until someone …...Read More

What Happens When You’re Disabled but Nobody Can Tell

Because of the issue of disclosure, there is no way to track the number of people with such disabilities. There are rough approximations of the number of people with, for example, lupus or cystic fibrosis, but some of those people may view themselves as substantially disabled while others may not. …...Read More

Trump Is Selling White Grievance. The Suburbs Aren’t Buying It.

CORNELIUS, N.C. — On a humid Wednesday morning in this leafy lakeside suburb of Charlotte, American flags fluttered from porches along Main Street, traffic was slow, and the occasional resident ambled out for a walk. There was only one visible sign of the anger and anxiety that have coursed through …...Read More

Why Is a Tech Executive Installing Security Cameras Around San Francisco?

Longtime San Francisco residents and the tech workers have not historically seen eye-to-eye on many things. The natives resent the private tech shuttle buses and the spiraling cost of living brought on by the new arrivals. They even resent their housing aesthetic: Glass and metal and pretty Victorian houses now …...Read More

Homeland Security Turns to Defending Statues Amid Questions Over Priorities

“This is exactly what the president has wanted,” said David Lapan, a former spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump administration, “putting people in positions that will be completely beholden to him and do whatever he wants, whether or not it’s in the best interests of the …...Read More

Mail Carrier in West Virginia Pleads Guilty to Attempted Election Fraud

Talk of election fraud may conjure images of high-tech operations, ones that rely on hacked emails and a network of fake social media accounts. A recent case in West Virginia, however, was decidedly less sophisticated. According to federal prosecutors, it involved just one mail carrier and a little bit of …...Read More