Opinion | My Daughter Was So Alive. How Can She Now Be Gone?
All that potential seemed to bear out, too, in Orli, and then later in her sister, Hana — in their temperaments, in their curiosity and, eventually, in their resilience over…
Opinion | The Tyranny of ‘The Best’
There are a lot of areas where people don’t feel as if they have expertise, and ratings “get rid of that feeling of not being competent,” Rick Larrick, a professor…
To Counter China, G7 Countries Borrow Its Economic Playbook
Midway through his face-to-face meeting with President Biden in Indonesia last fall, the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, offered an unsolicited warning. Mr. Biden had in the preceding months signed a…
Biden Pays Silent Tribute to Victims of Hiroshima Bomb
President Biden was 2 years old when the nuclear era opened with a blast of devastation unlike any the world had ever seen. Seventy-eight years later, he came on Friday…
Greece Says It Doesn’t Ditch Migrants at Sea. It Was Caught in the Act.
The Greek government did not respond to repeated requests for comment. But campaigning on Lesbos last week ahead of general elections on Sunday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis defended his government’s…
Body Cameras Can Be a Powerful Tool. But Not All Police Forces Wear Them.
When the Georgia authorities attempted to clear protesters from forested property near Atlanta in January, to make way for the construction of a $90 million police and fire training facility,…
Georgia Prosecutor Signals August Timetable for Charges in Trump Inquiry
The Georgia prosecutor leading an investigation into former President Donald J. Trump and his allies has taken the unusual step of announcing remote work days for most of her staff…
Cyclone Aid Stalled in Myanmar: ‘I Just Hope We Get Help Before We Die.’
Four days after Cyclone Mocha made landfall in Myanmar, killing hundreds and devastating communities in its path, aid groups seeking to deliver humanitarian assistance remained stymied by the junta on…
An Automaker Has a Stark Warning for the U.K. Car Industry
A distress flare has gone up from the beleaguered British car manufacturing industry. Stellantis, the company behind brands like Peugeot, Fiat and Vauxhall vehicles, has warned a Parliamentary committee that…
Meet the Pro Athlete Who Is Thrilled to Be in His 50s
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Just past a Dairy Queen near Houston last month, Steven Alker’s new status was aloft: His name and face were on a lamppost banner. Steven Alker,…