In today’s newsletter, Carrie Battan travels to Sweden to explore how a niche nicotine product went global. And the longtime Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus laments the owner Jeff Bezos’s turn to Donald Trump—and explains why she quit the paper. […]
Mahmoud Khalil, a thirty-year-old born in Syria who recently graduated with a master’s degree from Columbia University, was arrested by U.S. immigration authorities on Saturday. Khalil, who is of Palestinian ancestry, had become a prominent participant in the protests against
Tsar Nicholas I of Russia in the 1850s. By Georg von Bothmann. From the battle-scarred plains of Crimea to the diplomatic chambers of Europe, the war reshaped alliances, exposed weaknesses, and accelerated transformations that would define the century to come.
For years, Donald Trump’s critics have accused him of behaving like a crooked used-car salesman. Yesterday afternoon, he did it for real on the White House South Lawn. Squinting in the sun with Elon Musk, Trump stood next to five
The marvellous new espionage thriller “Black Bag” is, among other things, a sparkling ode to a happy marriage. I’m referring, in part, to the union between the movie’s central characters, George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) and Kathryn St. Jean (Cate Blanchett),
Archaeologists working at Ostia Antica, an ancient Roman port city, have discovered the oldest Jewish ritual bath outside of the Middle East, along with an oil lamp decorated with a menorah dated to the fifth to sixth centuries. The discovery
The best-selling novelist and two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward tries not to think about her audience until the end of the writing process. Doing so, she explained, can be anxiety-inducing and stifling. “It’s always difficult to navigate between
A hunter looking for deer on a West Texas ranch instead discovered a rare mammoth tusk, researchers say. The tusk was sitting in the drainage area of a creek bed on the O2 Ranch in Brewster and Presidio counties near
So far, it’s a tossup which of the Trump Administration’s wrecking balls will prove most destructive: the one that accelerates global warming, the one that abandons our allies, the one that torches the economy, or the one that compromises public
Most prehistoric Europeans had dark skin, hair and eyes well into the Iron Age, about 3,000 years ago, new research finds. Scientists found that the genes that cause lighter skin, hair and eyes emerged among early Europeans only about 14,000
