Month: September 2023

Sept. 19, 2023 “Today, the situation is very bad.” For weeks, this forest in the Donbas region had been fairly calm, but this morning, with the Russians on the offensive,…

President Biden will attempt on Tuesday to focus global attention on the need to protect and nurture democracies, calling for the world to continue backing Ukraine and urging advanced nations…

The world’s top diplomat, António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, has lately been unusually blunt in his broadsides against fossil fuel producers. He has accused them of “profiting from…

The Punan people of the island of Borneo were once rumored to have tails, so elusive did they seem to their neighbors in the 19th century. Unlike the Indigenous farmers,…

The Sept. 6 missile strike on Kostiantynivka in eastern Ukraine was one of the deadliest in the country in months, killing at least 15 civilians and injuring more than 30…

Two loyal donors responded to the red alert in our post this morning: “We Interrupt Our Regular Programming for This Important Announcement”. There, we explained the fundraiser was so far…

Special thanks to all of you who responded so quickly and generously to our red alert yesterday, “We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Programming for This Important Announcement” where we warned…

In the gloom of China’s economy, one area of business is booming: cosmetics. After enduring nearly three years of mandatory masks and frequent lockdowns during the pandemic, many Chinese consumers,…

Tucker Marr’s life changed forever last October. He was on his way to a wedding reception when he fell down a steep flight of metal stairs, banging the right side…

Still, the book contributes a lot more to the conversation than it ignores. For one thing, there are the pictures. Reprints of the magazine’s art chart the publication’s evolution, from…