Putin Basks in Praise From Modi on India Visit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India praised his “deep and unbreakable relationship” with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia after...
Can a $3 Billion Upgrade Make Killington the ‘Aspen of the East’?
Killington, the sprawling ski resort in central Vermont, has many claims to fame: Its 4,229-foot main peak is Vermont’s second...
Once a Gamble in the Desert, Electric Grid Batteries Are Everywhere
Lithium-ion batteries, which power everything from cellphones to cars, are increasingly saving electric grids around the world. Batteries as large...
Did the U.S. Focus on Fentanyl Leave Latin America Awash in Cocaine?
Fighting an international alliance of gangs, guerrilla groups, drug cartels and mafias, the Ecuadorean military found itself alone. By 2022,...
An Alaskan Village Confronts Its Changing Climate: Rebuild or Relocate?
From the beige confines of Room 207 at the Aspen Suites Hotel on the outskirts of Anchorage, Maggie Paul and...
Can a California Director Bring His Sunshine to New York?
On an afternoon last month at La Jolla Playhouse, the director Christopher Ashley was everywhere — at the lip of...
Best Jazz Albums of 2025
In a year that saw the deaths of two leading drummers, Jack DeJohnette and Al Foster, other drummers both young...
What ‘Hamnet’ Lost (and Gained) on the Way From Page to Screen
Chloé Zhao had always thought of Shakespeare’s tragedy “Hamlet” as a revenge play. But her understanding of the work was...
Hannah Arendt Is Not Your Icon
On the evening of Dec. 4, 1975, Hannah Arendt was sitting in her living room on Riverside Drive in Manhattan...
A Bursting Bubble Would Be Great for A.I.
“Bubbles are great. May the bubbles continue,” Eric Schmidt, Google’s former chief executive, recently said. For artificial intelligence to advance,...
A Gladiator Epic, Back From the Dead
During the third season of “Spartacus,” the swords-and-sandals drama that aired in the early 2010s on Starz, Ashur, the cunning...
What Little Victory Would You Like to Celebrate?
What good things — no matter how small — have happened in your life recently? Did you turn in a...
The Protesters and the Police Are Both the Focus and the Filmmakers
When the World Trade Organization ministerial conference went to Seattle in late 1999, so did the protesters. They hailed from...
How Kit Kat Was Killed: Video Shows What a Robot Taxi Couldn’t See
Meg Brigman met Kit Kat, perhaps San Francisco’s most famous cat in life and certainly in death, as she was...
What I Learned in 2025
This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by...
