In terms of geopolitical bromances, this is it. David Pierson, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times covering China, explains how President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping, the leader of China, are closer than ever before. Source link
Most American burgers are, in fact, not entirely American. The patties grilled at backyard barbecues or flipped in fast-food restaurants are often a blend of ground beef, both homegrown and imported from other countries, especially Brazil. In school cafeterias and home kitchens, this global mix of beef is seared, fried and sizzled into millions of […]
In the fall of 2024, the cardinal who is now Pope Leo XIV sat at a large round table inside the Vatican, discussing the challenges that face the Roman Catholic Church with a cardinal from Ethiopia, archbishops from Cameroon and Kenya, a cardinal posted to Mongolia, and bishops from Texas and Liberia. Joining them at […]
The conversation we’re having about opioids in Canada is starkly different from one year ago. Where Canadians were once squarely focused on health policies to reduce the high number of opioid deaths — especially last spring, amid British Columbia’s drug decriminalization rollback — our attention has lately shifted, from the people who use drugs to […]
I’d just finished and loved Miranda July’s novel “All Fours” last year when my colleague Marie Solis wrote a profile of July with the headline, “She Wrote the First Great Perimenopause Novel.” This was the first time I’d heard the book mentioned in these superlative terms. “All Fours” is about a woman in her 40s […]
He hugged a North Korean general. He squired China’s leader around with special care. He spoke of the sacrifices of soldiers. And he paraded Russian-made drones for the first time across Red Square. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia drew attention to the very factors that have enabled him to wage war against Ukraine into […]
The spark for the latest conflict between India and Pakistan, the most expansive fighting between the two countries in decades, was a terrorist attack on civilians in Kashmir last month. The Indian government had been projecting calm on its side of the disputed Kashmir region. A group of militants managed to puncture that image. They […]
The spark for the latest conflict between India and Pakistan, the most expansive fighting between the two countries in decades, was a terrorist attack on civilians in Kashmir last month. The Indian government had been projecting calm on its side of the disputed Kashmir region. A group of militants managed to puncture that image. They […]
The spark for the latest conflict between India and Pakistan, the most expansive fighting between the two countries in decades, was a terrorist attack on civilians in Kashmir last month. The Indian government had been projecting calm on its side of the disputed Kashmir region. A group of militants managed to puncture that image. They […]
Maddie Molloy Climate & Science reporter Getty Images The Soviet Union launched a number of missions to explore Venus – this probe was from an earlier flight Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft is likely to have re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere after being stuck in orbit for over half a century, the European Space Agency said. […]