2026-02-13 21:00:07
Rudyard Kipling has gone far out of fashion. Born in Bombay, in British India, in 1865, he was an unapologetic imperialist; he even coined the phrase “take up the white man’s burden” to mark the symbolic passage of global power from Britain to the US. Yet his 1919 poem “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” should be compulsory reading today because it goes to the heart of our contemporary troubles — and suggests a way out.
2026-02-13 21:00:06
The Japanese prime minister’s resounding election victory is not only a bet on her charisma, but a new experiment in economic nationalism.
2026-02-13 20:24:33
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Kathryn Ruemmler is resigning as the firm’s top lawyer after the most recent release of Department of Justice files revealed the extent of her long and close ties to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
2026-02-13 20:00:04
Operation Metro Surge, the aggressive and legally dubious immigration enforcement campaign that has upended life in Minnesota since December, was supposed to be the most powerful example yet of the mass deportations President Donald Trump has been promising since he first ran for the White House more than a decade ago. Instead, it has turned into one of his biggest political humiliations.
2026-02-13 19:30:04
I was making my reentry list on the airplane, coming home from a trip abroad. Unpack, groceries, get the house in order, work. What else? Ah, yes — Valentine’s Day.
2026-02-13 19:00:12
FedEx Corp. Chief Executive Officer Raj Subramaniam wants everyone to know that four years into a whirlwind transformation to cut costs, shed its trucking business and combine delivery services, the company now operates a global industrial network.
