Backlash to Anitta’s Music Video Evokes a Painful History in Brazil
Anitta, the popular Brazilian singer, was the target of intense backlash over the release of a music video in an episode that highlighted persistent religious...
France Issues Scratch-and-Sniff Baguette Postage Stamps
Joining the ranks of the screen goddess Brigitte Bardot and the Eiffel Tower, another French treasure is being celebrated with its own postage stamp: the...
Russia Presses Attacks in Northeast Ukraine, Seeking Buffer Zone on Border
Russian forces continued to press a grinding advance on Saturday into northeastern Ukraine, moving closer to a village about 10 miles from the outer ring...
Queen of the Book Club
I’d never eaten Nashville hot chicken before, and I’d never met Reese Witherspoon. But there we were — she, in a blue and white pinstripe...
Appreciating Alice Munro, Who Brought Innovation to Short Fiction
In his elegant obituary of Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate who died this week in Port Hope, Ontario, Anthony DePalma writes that her stories “were...
Middle East Crisis: As Hundreds of Thousands Flee Rafah, a Family Returns to the Ruins of Home
Middle East Crisis: As Hundreds of Thousands Flee Rafah, a Family Returns to the Ruins of Home...
Xi’s Warm Embrace of Putin in China Is a Defiance of the West
Days after returning from a trip to Europe where he was lectured about the need to rein in Russia, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, used a...
Russians Poured Over Ukraine’s Border. There Was Little to Stop Them.
Russian troops punched across Ukraine’s northern border with such speed and force last week that Ukraine’s meager fortifications offered almost no obstacle. Some Ukrainian soldiers,...
Russians Poured Over Ukraine’s Border. There Was Little to Stop Them.
Russian troops punched across Ukraine’s northern border with such speed and force last week that Ukraine’s meager fortifications offered almost no obstacle. Some Ukrainian soldiers,...
Mexico City Has Long Thirsted for Water. The Crisis Is Worsening.
A collision of climate change, urban sprawl and poor infrastructure has pushed Mexico City to the brink of a profound water crisis. The groundwater is...
Under Israeli Bombs, a Wartime Economy Emerges in Gaza
On tables and desks from schools turned shelters, wartime vendors lined a street, selling used clothes, baby formula, canned food and the rare batch of...
Slovakian Charged in Shooting ‘Was Against Everything’
He wrote dark, erotic verse and poems featuring torture and pain. He also self-published a book that railed against Roma people and asked why Slovakia...
How Modi Demonizes India's Muslims
How Modi Demonizes India’s Muslims...
Strangers in Their Own Land: Being Muslim in Modi’s India
It is a lonely feeling to know that your country’s leaders do not want you. To be vilified because you are a Muslim in what...