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Evan Gershkovich’s Year in Captivity
The U.S. journalist is in prison because Vladimir Putin has made no pretenses about using Americans as human bargaining chips.
The U.S. journalist is in prison because Vladimir Putin has made no pretenses about using Americans as human bargaining chips.
A good pretext for war is not enough to make a war just.
How the ex-president’s social-media platform became the new Bed Bath & Beyond
Your repeated attraction to a certain “type” may be down more to psychological comfort than to a mysterious connection.
A serious policy debate with the late senator could veer sharply into a one-man Borscht Belt-on-the-Potomac.
A wildfire in Venezuela, a deadly terrorist attack in Russia, a surf competition in Australia, Holy Week processions in Spain, a vast solar-power farm in Texas, and much more
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.
They were highly sophisticated. The local police seemed helpless. Then a retired septuagenarian detective stepped in. (From 2019)
Who was “Atlanticus,” the writer who foreshadowed the Titanic disaster?
“I think that the charge that men have become emasculated by the competence of women is both depressing and untrue.” (From 1959)
We visit a rally in Dayton, Ohio, to find out.
Do photos, social posts, and diaries actually help us remember better?