A foreign ship company that dumped garbage barrels and thousands of gallons of bilge water into the ocean off the coast of California has been ordered to pay millions in…
When Kohei Saito decided to write about “degrowth communism,” his editor was understandably skeptical. Communism is unpopular in Japan. Economic growth is gospel. So a book arguing that Japan should…
Eight candidates will appear onstage for the first Republican debate on Wednesday. But much of the focus will be on one person who won’t be there, Donald J. Trump. The…
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Thaksin Shinawatra, the former premier who was ousted in a coup and has been living in exile since 2006, returned to Bangkok for the first time in 15 years on…
From Doom to Call of Duty, first-person shooters have been immensely popular for decades. But what if the thrill for video game fans was never really about the guns? Immortals…
The economic travails of the postpandemic years have led to intense intellectual and policy debates. One thing almost everyone agrees on, however, is that the post-Covid crisis bears very little…
Tropical Storm Harold formed in the Gulf of Mexico overnight and quickly took aim at the Texas coast, the National Hurricane Center said early Tuesday, capping an extraordinarily busy few…
President Biden toured the scorched remains of Lahaina, a coastal town on the Hawaiian island of Maui, on Monday in his first visit since devastating wildfires killed more than 100…
Japan will begin releasing treated radioactive wastewater from the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the ocean this week, its government said on Tuesday, setting aside regional and domestic objections…