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During its first day in action, nine members of the board agreed to pledge a total of $7 billion toward relief for the war-torn enclave.

A conversation with the authors of “The Great Heist” on Beijing’s spycraft—and what can be done about it.

We can’t turn back the clock on USAID. But we can decide what comes next.

The country may not have the workforce to power a minerals renaissance.

The state has consolidated by purging its connections with the public.

The Trump administration is sending more troops to a region where U. S. military presence has coincided with increased violence.

Burger King, Wagamama, KFC walk out on Better Chicken Commitment and set up welfare-washing Sustainable Chicken Forum in its place.

To understand Trump’s approach to the world, look at the leaders he resembles.

The world’s cultural elite gathered in Doha to celebrate values denied by their host nation.

For years, baboons have roamed Cape Town suburbs, entering houses and yards in search of food. Now officials have a conservation plan aimed at reducing conflicts between the big primates and people — but like most things baboon-related here, it is sparking heated controversy.

Luis Alvarez brought a scientific pragmatism to many of the twentieth century’s greatest mysteries, including the secrets of pyramids, the Kennedy assassination, and the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

The case of Gisèle Pelicot, who for more than a decade was violated by her husband and dozens of other men, should mark the end of the regime that puts on women the responsibility for avoiding assault.

As long as the daily horrors in the occupied territories continue and the extreme right remains in power, democracy in Israel will be sick at the core.

Two exhibitions in Los Angeles respond to the racist monuments to Confederate soldiers that have been erected all over the United States.

Although Margaret Kennedy has been largely forgotten as a popular writer, in her novels she wielded the most cunning techniques of literary modernism.

And for this I’m grateful. The scene: I’m in my convalescent’s nest—a corner of the sofa. Floral pajamas, oily roots. The pain refersinto my shoulders, as

In A House for Miss Pauline, the Jamaican novelist Diana McCaulay examines her family’s shadowy history by telling the story of a woman who builds her house with the remains of the manor of a former slave plantation.

What Bernie Sanders brought to the job of mayor of Burlington and what he did with it help explain what matters to him and how he fits into American political argument.

In the early years of the Soviet Union, Konstantin Vaginov wrote fiction and poetry characterized by a sense of doubleness, ambiguity, and perverse humor.

Justice Anthony Kennedy often confounded Supreme Court observers with his seemingly unpredictable opinions, but during the years when a majority could be achieved only through some measure of compromise, he wielded enormous power over the Constitution’s contemporary meaning.