By this time of year, college-bound high school seniors are usually celebrating their choices, researching dorms and even thinking of their majors. This year, that’s not necessarily the case. Because…
The bodies of the two Ukrainian soldiers lay motionless in a field for months. Around them were bloodstains and their rifles. The soldiers’ relatives identified their bodies from aerial footage…
Frank Stella, who died on Saturday at age 87, once joked that he harbored only one regret. We were sitting in his scruffy studio in the East Village, and he…
On his first visit to Europe in five years, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, appears intent on seizing opportunities to loosen the continent’s bonds with the United States and forge…
As gold surged this year to its highest price ever, Xena Lin joined the frenzy by making monthly purchases of gold “beans,” pebble-like morsels of the precious metal. For Ms.…
The leader of the World Food Program said that parts of the Gaza Strip are experiencing a “full-blown famine” that is spreading across the territory after almost seven months of…
Frank Stella, whose laconic pinstripe “black paintings” of the late 1950s closed the door on Abstract Expressionism and pointed the way to an era of cool minimalism, died on Saturday…
Yves here. We linked to the underlying New York Times op-ed by Gabriel Zucman in Links today, but this piece is important in that it boils down Zucman’s piece and…
Yves here. This post takes stock of how far BRICS have gotten, and seem likely to get over the near and intermediate terms, with their various new currency and new…
On This Week’s Episode: While the seniors danced at the 2001 prom in Hoisington, Kan., a town of about 3,000, a tornado hit the town and destroyed about a third…