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At one point, Harvard’s president, Derek Bok, got so fed up with Mr. Kahn’s dogged reporting that he barred university officials from speaking to The Crimson. Years later, Mr. Kahn relished the memory, an early experience of journalism’s capturing the attention of the powerful. “That felt addictive,” he said. In…

Testing for the virus in Shanghai on Tuesday. The city of Wuhu in Anhui Province is entering a similar lockdown after reporting two Covid cases.Credit…Alex Plavevski/EPA, via Shutterstock All it took was one confirmed Covid case among the 2.4 million residents of Wuhu, a city in the farmland of eastern…

WASHINGTON — The world economy has entered a period of intense uncertainty as a capricious pandemic and the fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine are fueling inflation and weighing on an already fragile global recovery. These colliding challenges are confronting policymakers and central bankers in the United States and Europe…

LVIV, Ukraine — Christian Borys was at home in Toronto in February trying to find a way to help Ukrainians threatened by war when he decided to print some stickers from an internet meme: the Virgin Mary hoisting an antitank missile. Mr. Borys, who had worked for the e-commerce platform…

KHARKIV, Ukraine — When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February, its strategy featured a rapid advance of tanks and helicopter assaults deep into the country — two strategies that ultimately failed and cost Moscow an untold number of casualties. Now, with a narrower goal focused primarily on Ukraine’s…

Gerald Bryson, a former worker at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island, spoke at a rally there in March 2021.Credit…Dave Sanders for The New York Times By Karen Weise Karen Weise has written extensively about safety and unionization efforts at Amazon’s facilities. A judge ruled on Monday that Amazon must…

Some diners said that tips allow business owners to deflect the responsibility for paying a living wage. Gabriel Ramirez, who works in a Los Angeles smoke shop, said he would prefer that labor costs were reflected in menu prices rather than leaving it up to customers to tip. “It is…

FUNKOYA, Sierra Leone — Augustine Alpha begins gently. “Who lives in this home?” he asks the young man, who has come in from the fields to answer his questions. Your name? Age? Religion? Marital status? In what grade did you leave school? Do you own a bicycle? Mr. Alpha taps…

Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ With the midterms just over six months away, the electoral outlook for Democrats is looking bleak. President Biden’s approval rating is at 42 percent, around where Donald Trump’s was at this point in his presidency. Recent polls asking whether Americans want Republicans or Democrats…

A couple of weeks ago, the news was full of stories about high-profile people contracting Covid-19. The list included Attorney General Merrick Garland, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, other members of Congress (like Joaquin Castro, Susan Collins, Adam Schiff and Raphael Warnock), New York Mayor Eric Adams and…