A federal ballot measure like this has never been held in our country. A referendum would ask Americans to focus on the proposal rather than on a candidate or political party. There’s reason to believe that a direct vote could help us solve our health care quagmire. In a recent survey, about two out of […]
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Emma McConville was thrilled when she landed a job as a geologist at Exxon Mobil in 2017. She was assigned to work on one of the company’s most exciting and lucrative projects, a giant oil field off Guyana. But after oil prices collapsed during the pandemic, she was laid off on a video call at […]
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As the race for Los Angeles mayor began to tighten late last year, Karen Bass, the presumptive favorite, received some notes of encouragement from a kindred spirit: Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago. Ms. Lightfoot had successfully navigated a similar political path in 2019, becoming the first Black woman to be elected mayor of her […]
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The share of United States farmland owned by Chinese people and companies is small and has not been growing substantially. Chinese owners held about 350,000 acres at the end of 2020, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report, and most of the farmland came from the Chinese acquisition of Smithfield Foods in 2013. Canadian […]
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Queens, New York City One of the most famous jazz musicians in the world, Louis Armstrong, along with his wife, Lucille, moved into a modest home in Corona, Queens, in New York City, in 1943. Armstrong lived there until his death in 1971. In 1983, Lucille Armstrong willed the home and its contents to the […]
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Four years after the storm, the Fuenteses were no closer to finding a permanent home. They sometimes drove out to the suburbs on weekends to go to open houses in the new subdivisions or at cheaper condo complexes, taking the twins along to visit nearby parks. It was a nice escape from the chaos of […]
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