2025-12-12 13:00:25
If you’ve been scrolling through social media lately, you won’t have escaped the plaid trimmings, pine garlands and rich red ribbons, all warmed by the glow of a roaring fire.
2025-12-12 12:30:22
I used to think that the Eurovision Song Contest could give the European Union a lot of pointers. Inaugurated in 1956, making it more than twice as old as the EU, the competition has juggled cross-border enmities, voting machinations and the occasional war — in addition to music, smoke machines and choreography. For most of those seven decades, it’s self-corrected after scandals and controversies more nimbly than bureaucrats in Brussels can measure out red tape. Indeed, its broadly utopian visio
2025-12-12 12:00:22
Over the past week, Ukraine’s top military commander has given his most detailed assessment yet of the fight to halt Russia’s invasion. This wasn’t prompted by any sudden battlefield reversal. It reflects, rather, a deep and justifiable alarm that Kyiv has lost control of the war’s narrative, just as the US tries to force it into a terrible ceasefire deal.
2025-12-12 06:57:39
Most of the world knows how to respond to the US’s new National Security Strategy. As my colleague Marc Champion has written, Russia loves it. Liberal Europeans are dismayed, and the Gulf monarchies overjoyed.
2025-12-12 06:45:37
While Time magazine names “the architects of AI” as its Person of the Year, Disney’s Bob Iger shows how to take advantage of the technology.
2025-12-12 05:00:22
Currency volatility is like history. No two episodes repeat, but some sure do rhyme. Which is why it’s useful to compare the pall of gloom hanging over the Indian rupee with the rout of 2013.
