Rethinking the Circus
The idea of Cirque du Soleil might invite images of extravagant live shows with clowns, acrobats and fire breathers. The company is trying to change that. Cirque du Soleil came…
The Morocco Women’s Team Has Already Won
Khadija Rmichi’s path to the Women’s World Cup started on a bicycle. Rmichi, a goalkeeper, grew up in Khouribga, a mining city in central Morocco. As a girl, she tried…
Beijing Offers Love, but Chinese Entrepreneurs Aren’t Buying It
In the darkest moments of the financial crisis in 2008, former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao lectured a group of U.S. government officials and business executives in New York. “In the…
What’s the Status of Flaunting Your Status?
“It’s the Loro Piana effect and it’s a smoke screen,” said William Norwich, a novelist and editor who, in a previous professional incarnation, had a front-row seat on New York’s…
How a Record-Setting Giant Fish Could Help Save Its Home River
Researchers may have solved a big mystery surrounding a very big fish. Around the world, freshwater fish are in trouble. That’s especially true of large species. But one recent episode…
Opinion | What I Learned in Ukraine
I learned that every member of the American Embassy staff in Kyiv, led by our courageous and cleareyed ambassador, Bridget Brink, volunteered for the duty. They have been separated from…
The Sunday Read: ‘The Trillion-Gallon Question’
Listen and follow The DailyApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher On the morning of Feb. 7, 2017, two electricians were working on a warning siren near the spillway of Oroville…
Weary Soldiers, Unreliable Munitions: Ukraine’s Many Challenges
OUTSIDE AVDIIVKA, Ukraine — The headquarters of one of the battalions in Ukraine’s 53rd Mechanized brigade smells of fresh cut pine trees. The scents are from the wooden support beams…
Effects of “Unprecedented” Marine Heat Waves May Be Irreversible | naked capitalism
By Grace van Deelen. Originally published at The New Lede. Tens of thousands of dead fish are washing up on the Texas Gulf Coast, unprecedented numbers of seabird carcasses are showing…
It’s Scorching in Iran, and There’s Less and Less Water to Help
For a month and 10 days of unrelenting summer heat, Sepideh, a physician in southern Iran, and her dentist husband have left the house only for work (and only in…