Spain’s Leader Is Showing How to Stand Up to Trump, and So Much More
It was quite the gathering. In April, many of the world’s progressive luminaries, including President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...
Is France’s Centrist Leader Trying to Weatherproof It From the Far Right?
Barred from re-election and increasingly a lame duck, President Emmanuel Macron has few obvious levers to prevent a far-right, would-be...
Xi Poised to Press Trump on Arms Sales to Taiwan
The United States’ stance on Taiwan has rested for decades on a complex latticework of policies designed to support the...
Chinese A.I. Firms Push Beyond Nvidia as DeepSeek Turns to Huawei
When the Chinese start-up DeepSeek released its latest artificial intelligence model last month, it edged Beijing closer to a future...
Democrats Can’t Let This Antisemitic Sex Therapist Win Her Runoff
In a Facebook video from last fall, Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist and housing activist running for Congress as a...
China Increasingly Views Trump’s America as an Empire in Decline
When President Trump visited China in late 2017, Xi Jinping welcomed him with a grand display of Chinese history and...
The Altar Boy Who Refused to Hush Up
As an altar boy in the late 1990s, Michal Gatchalian spent almost every Sunday at a centuries-old Roman Catholic basilica...
Starmer Faces Mounting Calls From Own Party to Resign as British Prime Minister
Dozens of Labour Party lawmakers called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign on Monday, effectively rejecting the British leader’s...
At Frieze New York and Beyond, Indigenous Artists Are in the Spotlight
For much of the 20th century, the art world positioned Indigenous artists at its margins, filtered through anthropology, craft or...
Judge Again Delays Guantánamo’s First Death-Penalty Terror Trial
The military judge in the U.S.S. Cole bombing case on Monday reset the start of jury selection to Oct. 19,...
Byron Allen Is Buying a Controlling Stake in BuzzFeed
Byron Allen, the comedian turned entrepreneur, is buying a controlling stake in BuzzFeed, the digital media company that pioneered virality...
Justice Dept. Subpoenas Wall Street Journal in Leak Investigation
The Wall Street Journal said on Monday that it had received subpoenas for the records of its reporters, an exceedingly...
Kari Lake, Who Led Effort to Shutter Voice of America, Is Named Ambassador to Jamaica
President Trump on Monday appointed Kari Lake, a fierce ally of the president who had led the administration’s efforts to...
Bezos Family Gives $100 Million for Preschool Education in New York
It is a rare moment in a city as fractious as New York when its two most powerful forces, big...
California Mayor Will Plead Guilty to Working as Agent of China
Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, Calif., resigned on Monday after federal prosecutors announced they had charged her with acting...
