Friday, November 6, 2026
ArchiveTo Cross the Red Sea, Shippers Email Houthi Rebels. Read Their Inbox.
The Journal got hold of the inbox. A militant group runs a polite clearance desk — forms, reply times, approvals — and a chunk of world trade now moves through it.
Gavin Newsom’s Clemency Is a Game Changer for America’s Death Penalty
The argument: emptying California's death row doesn't just save 548 lives, it changes the national arithmetic on capital punishment. One procedural obstacle still stands in the way.
A Strange Quantum Theorem Has Killed Einstein’s Reality
Einstein spent his later years defending the idea that things are real whether or not anyone looks. The physicists trying to rescue him have now punched the biggest hole yet in his argument.
Inside the insurance industry’s destruction lab
Deep in the South Carolina woods, insurers pay to burn houses down and hurl debris at walls at highway speed. What they learn there ends up in your building code.
Pinot Noir: inside the criminal gangs making fake wine
Counterfeiters used to chase six-figure Burgundies. Now they're filling the €9 shelf — industrial-scale fakery, chemical forensics, and one very cinematic bust.