President Donald Trump made his biggest step yet toward trying to seize control of the Federal Reserve on Monday, by ordering the firing of one of its seven governors: Lisa Cook. The firing was legally dubious — Fed governors serve 14-year terms; Cook term expires in 2038, and she’s said she’ll contest her firing — […]

August 26 is not a day that is particularly known for feeling especially crisp or autumnal in most parts of North America. And yet it’s the day this year — the earliest release date ever — that Starbucks, contending with a slowdown in sales, will unleash its annual run of pumpkin spice lattes upon its […]

The human brain wasn’t built for all this — all of the information, screens, meetings, scheduling, thinking. The problem is the brain hasn’t changed much since the days of hunter-gatherers, but the demands we put on it have, says Kayla Stajkovic, a lecturer in organizational behavior at the University of California, Davis. In the past, […]

Underlying the redistricting arms race that Texas Republicans kicked off this summer (and to which California Democrats are responding) are two wagers both parties are making about Latino voters. Texas Republicans are expecting that Latinos will either continue the rightward shift they’ve been undergoing for the last two presidential cycles — or at least remain […]

For decades, the American public, the federal government, and the medical community have been nearly unanimous: Vaccines are important because they save lives. Today, after years of escalating attacks, that consensus has irrevocably shattered.  The rupture has centered around, what else, the Covid vaccines. Yesterday, a British cardiologist allied with US Health Secretary Robert F. […]