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Byline: David Wallace-Wells Eleven of the last 12 American presidents have endured an assassination attempt or a plot against their lives. The same is true for 20 of the country's [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells In April 2020, when New York City was the 'Covid capital of the world,' 815 New Yorkers died from the disease on the city's deadliest day. A [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells Typically, Americans learn about the clandestine depravities undertaken abroad by their government only decades after the offenses were committed. But last month, one ugly episode was revealed [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells The world's longest-living vertebrate is not the friendly giant tortoise, the breathtaking blue whale or the saltwater crocodile, which can terrorize the imagination of toddlers and centenarians [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells Here is what the indefinite pause on New York City's congestion pricing program, if it sticks, will cost: 120,000 more cars daily clogging Lower Manhattan's bumper-to-bumper streets, [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells The raw data looks inarguably bad: The share of American children missing at least 10 percent of school days nearly doubled over the course of the pandemic, [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells A snap election is a rush to judgment on the state of a nation, and in Britain, the vote coming in less than six weeks appears likely [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells The colleges had a choice; in most places, they chose to escalate. At Indiana University, a police sniper was stationed on the roof of a building; at [...]

Twenty months ago, in July 2022, I wrote a long essay sketching what I called the ''pretty brutal'' endemic future for Covid: probably about 100,000 deaths annually, at least for [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells Twenty months ago, in July 2022, I wrote a long essay sketching what I called the 'pretty brutal' endemic future for Covid: probably about 100,000 deaths annually, [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells In Davos, Switzerland, this January, a new icon of capitalist resentment took the stage. President Javier Milei of Argentina won a landslide victory in November on a [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells This month MethaneSAT, an $88 million, 770-pound surveillance satellite conceived by the Environmental Defense Fund and designed at Harvard to precisely track the human sources of methane [...]

This month MethaneSAT, an $88 million, 770-pound surveillance satellite conceived by the Environmental Defense Fund and designed at Harvard to precisely track the human sources of methane being released so [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells In America, now, we are living at 'the end of the future,' the historian Steve Fraser wrote this month in Jacobin, surveying the country's political landscape and [...]

When former Secretary of State John Kerry stepped into a newly created post as America's top climate diplomat in 2021, the reputation of the United States abroad was, in his [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells When former Secretary of State John Kerry stepped into a newly created post as America's top climate diplomat in 2021, the reputation of the United States abroad [...]

Texas is enduring its first ''gigafire,'' just the third in modern American history to burn more than a million acres. The Smokehouse Creek fire began Monday, spread more than 80 [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells War is on the rise everywhere. When the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London published its authoritative Armed Conflict Survey in early December, it counted 183 [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells In early February, the deadliest South American wildfires in a century swept through Valparaiso, Chile, killing more than 100 people. It was almost six months to the [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells For a year or two, as first-wave pandemic panic gave way to a more generalized perception of ragged social disorder, it was hard to read or talk [...]

For a year or two, as first-wave pandemic panic gave way to a more generalized perception of ragged social disorder, it was hard to read or talk about the plight [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells In 2022, there were 941 reported cases of measles in the World Health Organization's European region. Over just the first 10 months of last year, according to [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells It is notoriously tricky to synthesize data from all the world's weather stations into one measure of global warming, but all of the major efforts to do [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells In October, the International Energy Agency issued a brief flare of optimism when it suggested that global carbon emissions from fossil fuels may already have peaked. The [...]

In October, the International Energy Agency issued a brief flare of optimism when it suggested that global carbon emissions from fossil fuels may already have peaked. The climate hopeful have [...]

On the end-of-year lists, Ozempic keeps taking top honors for achievements in science. But in our new golden age of medicine, one of the most eye-opening breakthroughs has been in [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells In 1974, the libertarian political philosopher Robert Nozick famously defended inequality by offering a thought experiment involving Wilt Chamberlain. Imagine you lived in a society, he proposed, [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells It only took 28 years. When Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber banged his gavel on the resolution text of COP28 in Dubai on Wednesday, it marked what has [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells ââ 'Why is everyone so grumpy?' my colleagues Peter Coy and Binyamin Appelbaum asked last month, broaching the subject that has preoccupied confused economists and anxious Democrats. [...]

''Why is everyone so grumpy?'' my colleagues Peter Coy and Binyamin Appelbaum asked last month, broaching the subject that has preoccupied confused economists and anxious Democrats. American G.D.P. is booming, [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells It is, James Hansen says, worse than you think. In a paper published on Thursday and much debated among his colleagues since it was first posted as [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells As of last Monday night in Acapulco, Mexico, no formal hurricane warning had been issued for what would become, barely a day later, the first Category 5 [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells In 2015, Pope Francis came out as an environmentalist, with his landmark encyclical Laudato Si, later called by Bill McKibben 'the most important document yet of this [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells America has begun to treat Covid-19 like just any other disease - boosters are now arriving on an annual fall cycle, on the flu model, with large [...]