The wartime economy that Russia spurred into overdrive is slowing, causing tensions among the country’s economic elites as the war with Ukraine approaches its fourth year. Many Russian civilian industries…
Drug overdose deaths fell by an estimated 14.5 percent from June 2023 to June 2024 — the most significant decline recorded in the 21st century. When I first heard the…
Aristotle taught that all human beings want to know. Our own experience teaches us that all human beings also want not to know, sometimes fiercely so. This has always been…
Nuclear confrontation is fundamentally a form of communication — even after the first blows fall. Some in government see it as a language and revel in its complexity. This has…
As far as Betti Franceschi is concerned, every last part of her apartment is alive. “I’m an animist,” she said, referring to her sense that there’s a soul in everything,…
Cristina Nambendi receives training on farming techniques from an American-funded program in Angola. But when asked if she had ever heard of President Biden or knew much about the United…
The Israeli military has been expanding its presence in central Gaza in recent months, fortifying military bases and demolishing Palestinian buildings, according to Israeli officials and satellite images, a move…
Two days after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a top intelligence officer in the Washington, D.C., police department sent an encrypted message to one of…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan just had a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Nov. 24 in which the former reportedly talked up plans to expand cooperation…
Yves here. A bit confusingly, the less well publicized COP16, an annual global biodiversity meeting under UN auspices, convened shortly before the COP29 climate conference. But a common element of…