The great pretender:how Ahmed al-Sharaa won Syria
One summer morning in 2021 a debonair-looking man approached the crossing point into rebel-held Syria. As he left Turkey behi...
Trump Wants Europe to Defend Itself. Here’s What It Would Take.
President Trump has never had much love for the NATO alliance, which he thinks is overdependent on American largess, and in h...
Catch up:Markets slump despite Trump tariff delay; China vows to hit back
Global stockmarkets fell despite Donald Trump’s announcement on Thursday that he would postpone tariffs on some Canadian and ...
A Hamas Leader’s Release From Prison Reopens Old Wounds in Israel
The moment Ashraf Zughayer, a Hamas leader in Israeli prison, heard in October 2023 that Palestinian militants had taken host...
As Catholics Gather for Jubilee, Just One Thing Is Missing:Francis
Rome had spent months prepping up for the Roman Catholic Church Jubilee. It built tunnels, opened up squares and scrubbed mol...
Atherstone Ball Game Continues an 826-Year-Old Tradition in England
In England, the Tuesday before lent is traditionally celebrated by eating a stack of pancakes. But in Atherstone, a small tow...
Trump’s Policies Have Shaken a Once-Solid Economic Outlook
President Trump inherited an economy that was, by most conventional measures, firing on all cylinders. Wages, consumer spendi...
How Trump’s ’51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious
After President Trump imposed tariffs on Canada on Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an extraordinary statement tha...
Will Canadians Warm Up to Mark Carney, the Liberal Party Front-Runner Eyeing Trudeau’s Job?
It was the summer of 2007. Deep inside Canada’s finance ministry, high-ranking officials were staring down the barrel of a gl...
Fired Federal Workers Face a Sluggish Job Market
For about a year now, the labor market has existed in a state of eerie calm: Not many people were losing their jobs or quitti...