In Ukraine, I Don’t Have the Privilege of Looking Away

LOS ANGELES — Now on display at the Los Angeles Central Library through November in an exhibit entitled “Something in Common.” There is a San Diego Chicken costume, a half-smoked cigar from Babe Ruth that likely — maybe? possibly? — was spirited from a Philadelphia brothel in 1924 and a…

Macy’s, the country’s largest department store operator, told employees Thursday that it was laying off 13 percent of its corporate work force. The move comes as the company prepares to unveil a new strategy that its incoming chief executive will oversee. The cuts amount to roughly 2,350 jobs, or about…

The United Automobile Workers union announced Wednesday that it was undertaking an ambitious drive to organize plants owned by more than a dozen nonunion automakers, including Tesla and several foreign companies — a goal that has long eluded it. The move comes weeks after the U.A.W. won new contracts from…

Previous attribution studies have quantified the effects of climate change on individual Atlantic storms: For instance, researchers estimated that up to 38 percent of the extreme rainfall that Hurricane Harvey dumped on southeastern Texas in August 2017 was attributable to climate change. Dr. Reed was among the researchers who confirmed…

Last month, on the first night of Hanukkah, more than 200 people packed an old ballroom on the third floor of a restored synagogue in Brooklyn. A few came fresh off the subway from a protest in Manhattan that was organized by left-wing Jewish groups calling for a cease-fire in…