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There are things that the newsletter writer Kirsten Han misses about Substack. They just aren’t enough to outweigh the downsides. She disliked how the platform portrayed itself as a haven for independent writers with fewer resources while offering six-figure advances to several prominent white men. The hands-off content moderation policy,…

Francisca Acuna of Austin, Texas, was succinct at another meeting: “Don’t build where it floods. Stop recycling flooded properties. Disclose flood risks. Protect or restore ecologies that reduce flooding.” She added, “Make flood insurance fair,” noting that her annual premium had jumped to $1,893 from $450. Opinion Conversation The climate,…

JOHANNESBURG — The death toll from several days of punishing rain that drenched the city of Durban and the surrounding areas near South Africa’s east coast rose to more than 250 on Wednesday as the nation’s president visited the area to take stock of the devastation. Although the rain in…

When the groundbreaking pianist Chick Corea died unexpectedly, at 79, in February 2021, he left a legacy of experimentation, preserving and expanding the jazz tradition. Over more than a half-century, he deftly navigated the music’s continually shifting boundaries. Corea started his career playing with the Afro-Cuban percussionist Willie Bobo and…

In a first for the tech giant, Google filed a consumer protection lawsuit to shield the vulnerable and unsuspecting from what it called a “nefarious” scheme: the sale of adorable, but imaginary, puppies. The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., claims that Nche Noel Ntse,…

SERENADE A Balanchine Story By Toni Bentley Toni Bentley’s sixth book, “Serenade,” is a tribute not only to the Georgian American choreographer George Balanchine’s timeless, titular ballet, but also to the art form. Bentley, who danced under Balanchine’s direction at the New York City Ballet for a decade in the…

Teachers in Sunset Park on Tuesday said classes went on as usual, but were preparing themselves for difficult conversations the next day.Credit…Hilary Swift for The New York Times For Shahana Ghosh, a first-grade teacher at P.S. 24 in Sunset Park, just two blocks from the subway station where Tuesday’s shooting…

Investigators are piecing together what happened after a shooting spree Tuesday morning on a subway train in Brooklyn, in which at least 23 people were injured. The gunman remains at large. Here’s what we know so far. What happened? Shortly before 8:30 a.m., a man in a construction vest and…

Jeff Smith, a partner with the influential consulting firm McKinsey & Company, accepted a highly sensitive assignment in December 2017. The opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma, beleaguered and in financial trouble, wanted to revamp its business, and an executive there sought out Dr. Smith. Over the following weeks, he traveled to…

The overall cost of gas, food and other everyday items is increasing at its fastest rate in more than 40 years. And experts cannot say with confidence whether price increases will speed up or slow down in the coming months. The accelerating price rate — in other words, inflation —…