Wall St. Pessimists Are Getting Used to Being Wrong
Beaten as they might be by the stock market’s rally, worriers on Wall Street still question how long it can last. Their numbers are shrinking, though. After starting the year…
Biden to Overhaul Military Justice Code, Seeking to Curb Sexual Assault
President Biden is set to give final approval on Friday to the biggest reshaping in generations of the country’s Uniform Code of Military Justice, stripping commanders of their authority over…
Opinion | Let the Tragedy in My Homeland Be a Lesson
For those who have never been through something like this, our tragedy is probably difficult to imagine. A decade ago, I couldn’t have imagined it myself. When catastrophe came for…
Opinion | The Coming Biden Impeachment Farce
Let’s recall why Trump tried to essentially extort Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. The ex-president wanted Zelensky’s help creating the false impression that a bribery scheme led Biden, as vice president,…
Lebanese Depositors Have Resorted to Force to Withdraw Their Savings
By the time Walid al-Hajjar stormed his bank armed with a jug of gasoline, four lighters and a willingness to set himself on fire, his wife’s bone cancer was too…
Colombians Seeking to Rally South America Behind Ukraine Were Nearly Killed
Héctor Abad Faciolince grew up in what had been one of the most violent cities on earth. Since Colombia won its independence more than 200 years ago, it has weathered…
Opinion | Ron DeSantis Wants to Tell the Future by Controlling the Past
Last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida was, along with his state’s Board of Education, embroiled in a controversy over a new curriculum for student instruction in African American history.…
Opinion | Every American City Needs a Richard Ravitch
Barely two months before his death in June, at 89, Richard Ravitch, the real-estate developer turned public servant, was doing the same thing he had done regularly for more than…
Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart
A one-armed robot stood in front of a table. On the table sat three plastic figurines: a lion, a whale and a dinosaur. An engineer gave the robot an instruction:…
Judge Rejects Hong Kong’s Bid to Ban Pro-Democracy Song From Internet
The Hong Kong authorities suffered a surprising setback on Friday when a judge denied their request to ban a popular pro-democracy song from the internet. The government was seeking an…
Typhoon Doksuri Makes Landfall in China as Toll Rises in the Philippines
Typhoon Doksuri made landfall in mainland China on Friday, carrying winds equivalent to those of a Category 2 hurricane, after grazing Taiwan and lashing the Philippines, where officials reported dozens…
Wagner’s ‘Parsifal’ at the Bayreuth Festival Experiments With AR
For Richard Wagner, the latest technology was crucial to staging his operas. In Bayreuth, Germany, where he opened a hilltop theater in 1876 to realize his vision for his works,…
Bank of Japan Edges Toward Letting Rates Rise
No country in the world holds as much debt as Japan, which has well over $1 trillion in U.S. government treasuries alone. Even the slightest shift to Japan’s low interest…
Randy Meisner, Founding Member of the Eagles, Dies at 77
Randy Meisner, a founding member of the Eagles whose broad vocal range on songs like “Take It to the Limit” helped catapult the rock band to international fame, died on…