Month: April 2024

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day American Goldfinch, Hyland-Bush Lakes Park–Visitor Center, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States. In Case You Might Miss… (1) Mandy Cohen et al.…

Yves here. I am not sure what to make of the article below on slavery and what to do about it, but hope it will nevertheless provoke a useful discussion.…

The shooting of an elementary teacher by a 6-year-old student in Newport News, Va., last year was preceded by a “shocking” series of lapses by the school’s assistant principal at…

Thomas J. Gumbleton, a Roman Catholic bishop from Detroit whose nationally prominent support of liberal causes often clashed with church leadership, but who grounded his views in the 1960s Vatican…

I thought I came up with a whole new expression. It turns out I didn’t. I was thinking about asparagus and how it evokes emotion: the anticipation of its coming,…

Taro Akebono, a Hawaii-born sumo wrestler who became the sport’s first foreign grand champion and helped to fuel a resurgence in the sport’s popularity in the 1990s, has died in…

Unfortunately, Benjamin Netanyahu is right — “unfortunately,” I say, because he is the most incompetent, corrupt and divisive Israeli prime minister ever, as many in Israel believe. But he is…

The state supreme court reinstated an abortion law from 1864. What will that mean for Arizonians?

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine probably changed the fates of thousands of Ukrainian men when he signed a law lowering the draft age to 25 from 27 this month, more…

Prosecutors claim Chad Daybell and his wife thought her two children were ‘dark spirits’.