Republicans Gather in Iowa to Ride, Eat and Disagree
As the politicians and Republican Party officials tossed out the red meat on Saturday at an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, Wayne Johnson, a 70-year-old farmer and financial consultant…
DeSantis Relied Heavily on Big Donors in Initial Money Haul
Why It Matters: Small donors help sustain a campaign and show grass-roots support. How a campaign raises money matters. Because of strict campaign contribution limits of $3,300 per person for…
‘The Idol’ Creators: ‘This Is Not Going to Be for Everybody’
Last month, the director Sam Levinson and his stars, Abel Tesfaye (a.k.a. the Weeknd) and Lily-Rose Depp, walked into the Lumière Theater at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere…
The Sun Is Calling
It’s June. The weather forecast is starting to look like summer, and I’m looking forward to my favorite sunny-day activity: eating outside. I can think of few things more leisurely…
China, U.S. Lay Out Rival Visions for Asia as Ships Nearly Collide
Senior military officials from the United States and China used a conference in Singapore to push competing visions of Asia’s future security: a U.S.-led safety net of well-armed partnerships versus…
Opinion | What Ozempic Reveals About Desire
The new weight loss drugs are called GLP-1 receptor agonists. They do much of their work in the brain, reducing the way that hunger centers attention on seeking food. This…
A Negro Leagues Star Is Still Sharing His Story
The older pastor, wearing a long purple robe, ascended the steps to the pulpit. “God has always had a plan and a purpose for each of our lives,” the Rev.…
Who Owns the Benin Bronzes? The Answer Just Got More Complicated.
But that plan quickly began to unravel. That same month, the oba, in a written statement to the news media, said that he should be the sole recipient of the…
Could Jeff Zucker Fix CNN? He Seems to Think So.
The seminar was to be on media leadership. Dozens of students filling a classroom at Yale University in April were there to learn about the business from a man who…
A Pacifist Sect From Russia Is Shaken by War, and Modernity
When he was growing up among the Doukhobors, a pacifist religious group that emigrated to Canada from Tsarist Russia, J.J. Verigin would sometimes arrive home from school to find naked…