An early harvest in Romania, a space-shuttle exhibit in Los Angeles, medieval armored combat in France, heavy rains in China, a soapbox derby in London, and much more
Climbing the Andes one windy January afternoon, watching peak after peek emerge on the horizon like giant mounds of moss, I found myself wondering about the clear line toward the …
Washington is racing to sell the world on American AI just as China's cheap and capable models are becoming harder to ignore.Why it matters: Chinese models don't have to beat Open…
“Our tongues tie trying / to articulate the knot,” writes Serena Chopra in her simultaneously tender and exacting new collection A Catalog of Future Mercies. When she writes, late…
For this installment in a long-running series of interviews with contemporary poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with poet Ye Hui. The poets corresponded using …
Iran maintained its insistence on controlling the Strait of Hormuz on June 26, a day after an attack on a ship in the strategic waterway led the U.N. to suspend efforts to evacuat…
Israel and Lebanon to hold further talks in Washington todayAoun welcomes French and Italian efforts to form coalition to succeed Unifil Hezbollah to discuss national security str…
An interview with writer/director Rod Lurie about his newest WWII drama.
During the talks, Kutrashev “highlighted the influential role of Bafel Jalal Talabani within the Kurdistan Region, Iraq, and the wider area.”
The most paradoxical thing about creative work is that it is both a way in and a way out, that it plunges you into the depths of your being and at the same time takes you out of y…
Russia is recruiting a “gaming army” of 165,000 troops to control its growing drone legions to counter Ukraine’s dominance in an increasingly robot-driven war. A Pentagon adviser …
The sanctions target Rwanda's Gasabo Gold Refinery The US has sanctioned a major gold refinery in Rwanda and two of its executives, accusing them of smuggling minerals from rebel-…