This May Be a Turning Point for Biden. But in Which Direction?
The race against Trump doesn’t seem as if it will get easier.
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The race against Trump doesn’t seem as if it will get easier.
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All-cash purchases shot up to 64 percent of home sales in the borough. Here’s who’s buying.
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The Debate Hurt Biden, but the Real Shift Has Been Happening for Years
A 3-point move toward Trump in a new Times/Siena poll is not a fundamental change in the race, but it adds to longstanding concerns.
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We Counted 22,252 Cars to See How Much Congestion Pricing Might Have Made in One Morning
A year’s worth of tolls is hard to picture. But what about an hour’s worth?
By Ana Ley, Larry Buchanan, Francesca Paris, Rebecca Lieberman, Eden Weingart, Ruru Kuo and
Is It Better to Rent or Buy? A Financial Calculator.
Our calculator takes the most important costs associated with buying or renting and compares the two options.
By Mike Bostock, Shan Carter, Archie Tse and
Spelling Bee Buddy: Personalized Hints That Update as You Play
Customized hints that update based on your progress in today’s puzzle.
By Neil Berg, Matthew Conlen, Josh Katz, Aaron Krolik, Eve Washington and
WordleBot: Your Daily, Personalized Wordle Score
First, play today’s Wordle. Then come here.
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Teachers this year saw the effects of the pandemic’s stress and isolation on young students: Some can barely speak, sit still or even hold a pencil.
By Claire Cain Miller and Sarah Mervosh
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The latest Times/Siena survey shows Trump up by six points among registered voters and three among likely voters.
By Nate Cohn
Deaths of infants in the state increased by 13 percent in 2022, a study found, driven by fatal birth defects.
By Claire Cain Miller
It starts by showing a very close race nationally and in critical battleground states.
By Nate Cohn
An average of surveys may sound straightforward, but even a simple approach faces a series of choices.
By Nate Cohn
Our polling averages track the latest trends in the presidential race, using data from national and battleground state polls.
Only around 3 percent of kindergarten teachers are men. We interviewed a dozen of them about the joys of the job and the challenges boys face today.
By Claire Cain Miller
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Chicago reversed the flow of a river. Boston put a highway underground. And New York, well, came close to enacting congestion pricing.
By Emily Badger
Inside the unusual dynamic shaping the 2024 campaign.
By Nate Cohn, Charlie Smart and Ethan Singer
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One-fifth of abortions are being done via telemedicine, nearly half in states with abortion bans or restrictions.
By Margot Sanger-Katz and Claire Cain Miller
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We reached nearly 2,000 people who participated in previous Times/Siena polls to see if any had changed their minds.
By Nate Cohn, Ruth Igielnik and Alicia Parlapiano
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He may not lose support at all, but recent backing from young and nonwhite voters might be likelier to fade.
By Nate Cohn
The Upshot’s guide helped a New Jersey man, who has some good tips of his own.
By Ben Blatt
Though he trails in the polls, President Biden has mostly held his support among white voters. Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin probably offer his clearest path to victory.
By Nate Cohn
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The New York Times is telling the stories of people who made this difficult choice. Maybe we can tell yours.
By Francesca Paris
The Biden team faces questions of its own: Why have these voters backed away from him, and can his campaign find a way to reach them?
By Nate Cohn
The Upshot’s financial calculator has been updated with new features.
By Francesca Paris
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In polls of swing state voters, 14 percent of those who said they voted for President Biden in 2020 said they weren’t backing him now.
By Claire Cain Miller, Bianca Pallaro, Ruth Igielnik and Alicia Parlapiano
Preliminary numbers show a nearly 4 percent decrease in deaths from opioids, largely fentanyl, but a rise in deaths from meth and cocaine.
By Jan Hoffman
The mistaken belief, in a new poll, shows how even as abortion is mobilizing Democrats, confusion over the issue is also a challenge.
By Claire Cain Miller, Ruth Igielnik and Margot Sanger-Katz
Kennedy draws disproportionately from voters who usually back Democrats but have defected to Trump.
By Nate Cohn
Which polling question is asked first can matter a great deal.
By Ruth Igielnik
In four states where Biden trails among likely voters, Democratic Senate candidates are leading.
By Nate Cohn
A new set of Times/Siena polls, including one with The Philadelphia Inquirer, reveal an erosion of support for the president among young and nonwhite voters upset about the economy and Gaza.
By Nate Cohn
We asked voters for the one thing they remembered most about the Trump era. Few of them cited major events like the pandemic and Jan. 6.
By Christine Zhang, Sean Catangui and Alex Lemonides
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The president used the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel to underscore the threat that Jewish people still face after the Holocaust.
By Reuters
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People with two copies of the gene variant APOE4 are almost certain to get Alzheimer’s, say researchers, who proposed a framework under which such patients could be diagnosed years before symptoms.
By Pam Belluck
Recent studies cast doubt on whether large-scale mental health interventions are making young people better. Some even suggest they can have a negative effect.
By Ellen Barry
New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37 percent, and among Native American youths by 22 percent, between 2014 and 2020, compared with less than 5 percent for white youths.
By Emily Baumgaertner
Categorizing previous third-party bids helps us understand where he fits in and where he might wind up.
By Nate Cohn
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Seven hundred miles to the nearest clinic: how one ban will reshape access in the South.
By Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz and Claire Cain Miller
The Upshot is 10 years old this week. Here’s a collection of our most distinctive work from the last decade.
By The Upshot Staff
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Picks are likelier to be dealt than kept, as a “very strong inertia” has been replaced by complex models and frenzied swapping.
By Ben Blatt
There’s 50 percent more carbon dioxide in the air than before the Industrial Revolution.
By Aatish Bhatia
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His liabilities weren’t dominating the conversation the way they once did, perhaps helping his polling, but the trial could change things.
By Nate Cohn
Is this how one of the world’s greatest cities still deals with garbage? Larry Buchanan, one of the New York Times reporters who walked miles around the city pondering trash for this story, explains what will be required to take New York’s trash bags off the street.
By Larry Buchanan, Karen Hanley and Ruru Kuo
On a scale not seen in decades, many Americans are stuck in homes they would rather leave.
By Emily Badger and Francesca Paris
An average of recent surveys, including the Times/Siena poll, finds President Biden inching closer to Donald Trump.
By Nate Cohn
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The trend toward the Republican Party among white voters without a college degree has continued, and Democrats have lost ground among Hispanic voters, too.
By Ruth Igielnik
Some companies discriminated against Black applicants much more than others, and H.R. practices made a big difference.
By Claire Cain Miller and Josh Katz
Yesterday’s hippies have become today’s seniors — and they’re still voting Democratic.
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A study found that when older workers in Bangladesh were given free reading glasses, they earned 33 percent more than those who had not.
By Andrew Jacobs
One Super 8 in Illinois advertised $949 a night. Its normal rate is $95.
By Ben Blatt
The evidence is strong that, all else being equal, Al Gore would have won if not for an infamous ballot design in Palm Beach County.
By Nate Cohn
Even in the world of woodworking, there are trade-offs at the intersection of policy, public safety, patents and profit.
By Ben Blatt
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Despite the explosion in ransomware hacks like the one against Change Healthcare, regulation is spotty and few new safeguards have been proposed to protect patient data, vulnerable hospitals and medical groups.
By Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz
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