Yves here. Some rousing weekend listening! Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are launching a bi-weekly talk show, Geopolitical Economy Hour. The opening segment gives an overview, starting with the breakdown…
Yves here. Some cheery news. The same way some institutions are too big to fail, others are too important to kill. Libraries still have strong popular support despite big money…
KHERSON, Ukraine — One morning in late October, Russian forces blocked off a street in downtown Kherson and surrounded a graceful old building with dozens of soldiers. Five large trucks…
YASUNÍ NATIONAL PARK, Ecuador — In a swath of lush Amazon rainforest here, near some of the last Indigenous people on Earth living in isolation, workers recently finished building a…
This article is part of our special report on the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, finds itself navigating troubled waters.…
The Carabinieri and the men traversed a bumpy country road dividing the high plains used as sets for the spaghetti westerns. “This is the truffle hunter’s battlefield,” Mr. Tomassetti said…
By the first scrimmage at Bushwick, there were seven swimmers, and then 12 by the first meet. Though the season was a losing one, Ms. Taylor finally fielded two dozen…
A series of explosions rang out in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, on Saturday morning after Russian strikes, jolting residents from a relative quiet that had taken hold over the last…
Police are helping search for a missing clouded leopard that has shut down the Dallas Zoo. Officials said Friday that the small leopard, named Nova, weighs about 20-25 pounds and…
Here’s the latest for Friday, January 13: Crews look for tornado survivors; California braces for more storms; Trial in deaths of two teens to be heard by out-of-county jury; Mega…