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One afternoon around 1990, as a teenager working my after-school job in an optometrist’s basement office, I was listening to a local college radio station

The growing tension between the United States and China boils down to a battle over resources.

When the artifacts of an artist’s life are collected as an archive, they change from river to reservoir, their ideas no longer circulating in the artist’s

Geoffrey O’Brien is one of those writers who can write about anything: opera, British postwar film, crime fiction, the Third Reich, Grant Wood, Patti

Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled.

With Alex Vindman and George Conway’s losses, Democratic voters are forcefully rejecting the notion that Russia is to blame for America’s ills.

But Tehran’s top crude buyer appears unwilling to play ball.

Anton Jager explains why record voter turnout isn’t leading to systemic change.

Early policy choices shaped the inequity and employment challenges facing the country today.

Northern Ireland’s most outlandish plan comes to fruition in Jan Carson’s new novel.

Nepotism could tank the far right’s chances in Brazil.

A new survey reveals a preference for the U. S. president’s transactional approach.

It’s time for a synchronous global rethink.

The U. S. president has simultaneously demolished key relationships in East Asia and the Middle East.

Tactical excellence can never salvage strategic incompetence.

For the first time in 30 years, computer scientists have found a better way to allocate objects evenly between two groups.

Trump’s policies offer the region all the downsides of traditional U. S. policy with none of the benefits.

Washington has favored bullets over business in its dealings with slow-growing Ecuador.

Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion.

The documentary “American Doctor” follows 3 physicians facing the odds: limited medical supplies, Israeli bombing, and upon returning home, media bias and indifference.