For years, Russia covertly propped up authoritarian leaders, exploited natural resources and fought extremists in a number of African countries. Russia worked through the Wagner group, a shadowy web of…
Thousands of Kenyans took to the streets on Tuesday in a movement led by younger people that demonstrators hope will compel the government to scrap a finance bill that critics…
Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, a decision that threatened to split Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government amid the war…
Tuesday is Primary Day in New York. A number of high-profile races are on the ballot, including an expensive and bitterly fought Democratic contest between Representative Jamaal Bowman and George…
Four years after a new coronavirus swept through New York in what was called a once-in-a-century event, public health officials are beginning to prepare for the possibility that a far…
There was a time when a Chinese internet company’s initial public offering was the hottest thing on Wall Street. As the e-commerce giant Alibaba prepared to go public on the…
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who has long fought extradition from Britain to the United States, agreed on Monday to plead guilty to one count of violating the Espionage Act…
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, agreed to plead guilty on Monday to a single felony count of illegally obtaining and disclosing national security material in exchange for his release…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. –Sun Tzu Project 2025, a project organized…
The wallpapered-room is filled with antiques and a menagerie of blinged-out taxidermy. A 24-foot-long banquet table has been laid out, but the dinner guests seem to have disappeared, leaving their…