Photographs by Alana Paterson The police came at dawn. Karen Espersen watched them drive into the valley: more than 40...

A little more than 80 years ago, a group of young military officers joined with Venezuela’s main opposition party to...

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Last Thursday, in lieu of my afternoon coffee, I placed a sticker on the inside of my wrist. It was...

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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick went on CNBC this fall to promote a deal so great that he deemed it “off...

In China, you can buy a heavily discounted “used” electric car that has never, in fact, been used. Chinese automakers,...

Late last month, Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia with 855,279 articles, no human editors, and no way for...

During the five years I worked as an environmental-studies professor at a progressive private college, I undertook a small, semesterly...

The fall of Constantinople wiped the last living Roman civilization from the Earth. The city’s refugees fled west, helping spark...

Quiet American is an oxymoron for most people, at least those outside the United States. The British writer Graham Greene...

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Donald Trump is clearly frustrated with his failure to end the Russia-Ukraine war. He thought he could strike a deal...

Canada Is Killing Itself The country gave its citizens the right to die, Elaina Plott Calabro wrote in the September...

Since last month’s cease-fire, Gaza has been divided by a yellow line splitting Hamas-controlled Gaza to the west from Israeli-occupied...