Biden to Dole Out 19 Medals of Freedom, and One Unmistakable Message
With 16 days left in a political career that spanned a half-century, President Biden is expected on Saturday to confer one of the nation’s highest honors on core members of...
Who Are the 19 Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
President Biden is expected to recognize an expansive cast of public figures, celebrities and cultural luminaries on Saturday with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, covering...
A Student’s Mystery: How Did This Enigmatic Author Shape Her Family?
As a British reader, I am admittedly fussy when it comes to mysteries that take place on labyrinthine country estates. “The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus,” Emma Knight’s debut...
How Fear and Conspiracy Theories Fuel South Korea’s Political Crisis
Every day for the past week, Kim Kwon-seop, 72, has joined thousands of others gathered near the home of South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol. They were determined to...
How a Maker of Weighted Stuffed Animals Spends Her Sundays
For 20 years, Marina Khidekel worked at magazines like Cosmopolitan and Women’s Health, and as chief content officer for Thrive Global. While her work centered on helping readers manage their...
Why Japan Won’t Stop Trying to Invest in the U.S.
As signs emerged that President Biden was gearing up to stop the Japanese steel maker Nippon Steel from acquiring Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel, top Japanese officials repeatedly warned that quashing the...
A Move Toward Christianity Stirs in a Muslim Land
The Catholic priest stood at the altar in the hilltop church for the mass baptism, dunking dozens of heads in water and tracing a cross with his finger on each...
In France, Drug Traffic Spreads to New Territory: Small Towns
For centuries in Morlaix, a city of cobblestones and creperies on the Breton coast of France, the best-known dealers were the ones who traded in linen during the Renaissance and...
How the Islamic State Radicalizes People Today
The Islamic State has lost thousands of fighters to death or prison and suffered the demise of its self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria. But the global reach of the...
In a Political Year, Some Deaths Spoke to the Struggles for Democracy
In a year saturated with politics in an ever more polarized world, where the obituary many feared they’d be reading would be that of democracy itself, one death seemed to...
