Life Along the Korean DMZ, 70 Years After the Fighting Ended
Seen from the sky, the Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ, looks like a gigantic geographical wound across the Korean Peninsula, the continuous wire fences snaking up the hills and down the…
Gov. Abbott’s Policing of Texas Border Pushes Limits of State Power
Along Texas’ 1,200-mile-long border with Mexico, state troopers routinely arrest migrants for trespassing. Texas National Guard troops unspool razor wire along the banks of the Rio Grande. State game wardens…
The Very Private Life of Melania Trump
Since leaving the White House, Melania Trump’s world has gotten smaller. Just how she likes it. Cloistered behind the gates of her three homes, she sticks to a small circle…
Opinion | Democrats and Republicans Are Living in Different Worlds
I asked Webster whether schadenfreude was stronger in either party and he replied by email: It is hard to say whether Democrats or Republicans are more prone to partisan schadenfreude.…
Hunter Biden to Appear in Court to Ratify Plea Deal
Hunter Biden, President Biden’s troubled son and the target of long-running Republican efforts to cast the first family as corrupt, is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday in federal court…
Blistering Heat Spreads to U.S. Midwest as Wildfire Smoke Lingers
The heat wave that has scorched much of the American South and Southwest is now spreading throughout the Midwest, bringing temperatures exceeding 100 degrees, dangerous conditions for millions of people…
Credit Markets Are Creaking, Creating Economic Uncertainty
Investors and economists have become optimistic that the Federal Reserve might successfully slow inflation without plunging the economy into recession, but many are still eyeing a risk that threatens to…
Opinion | How to Know When a Prosecution Is Political
As the criminal indictments of Donald Trump continue to pile up like boxes in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom, the former president’s defenders have settled on a response: They don’t claim their…
What ‘The Bear’ Gets Right About Chicago
Leave it to a Chicagoan like me to note that there are, in fact, more than 20 restaurants in the city with at least one Michelin star. But “The Bear”…
The EU-Indonesia Fight Over Nickel and Who Gets to Own the Clean Energy Future | naked capitalism
Indonesia boasts some of the world’s richest mineral deposits, but it has long focused on digging them up and shipping them to other countries for processing. The government in Jakarta…