How Has Tech Changed Your School Experience? We Want to Hear About It.
Digital devices and apps can be great tools in schools. They can also be a classroom distraction or even a weapon. Some students spend so much class time on their…
Spain Is Thirsty. Here’s How It Gets Water.
On a fiery hot day in late June, tourists filled the cafes and hotel rooms along Spain’s Mediterranean coast, including in Torrevieja, a small city of tightly stacked apartment blocks…
Injera Is the Soul of Ethiopian Cuisine
With a swift flick of the wrist, Gennet Wondimu, owner of Ye Geny Injera & Mini Market in Inglewood, Calif., slipped a woven mat, called a sefed, under a freshly…
The Filipinos Living in the Shadow of China’s Military Might
For travelers flying into the tiny island of Thitu, the reality of China’s territorial ambition becomes instantly clear. There they are: dozens of Chinese ships surrounding a speck of land…
Why Are There Fears of War in the South China Sea?
You might not notice Second Thomas Shoal from the air. The disputed atoll near the Philippines is a bit larger than Manhattan and sinks beneath the South China Sea’s surface…
Opinion | The Chaos in Britain Has Been Coming
The scenes are shocking. In the wake of the murder of three young girls in the northwestern town of Southport, England, riots erupted across the country. Seizing on misinformation about…
Here Are the Olympic Moments We Won’t Forget
Success and failure. Exhilaration and agony. Gold, silver and bronze. The Olympics will always turn on who won and who lost, how high and how fast and how far. But…
Paris, Uncharacteristically Giddy, Bids Au Revoir to the Olympics
There were French firemen flipping like acrobats, a musician playing a piano that hung vertically in the air, and Olympic athletes overwhelming the stage and forming a mosh pit around…
Los Angeles Has Promised a ‘Car-Free’ Olympics in 2028. Can It Do It?
In their winning bid to host the 2028 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles leaders pledged that the city’s version of the Games would be the greenest ever — a goal they…
The Taste of Dirt
Daisy Alioto, a 33-year-old writer, editor and media executive, was looking at the 140 tons of dirt in the Earth Room, a permanent installation created by the conceptual artist Walter…