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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses Congress virtually on March 16 to appeal for more military assistance to fight Russia’s invasion. He invoked images of Pearl Harbor and 9/11, saying, “Remember…when evil tried to turn U.S. cities into

TRUST IS SOMETHING THAT SEEMS TO BE IN SHORT supply in the world right now. A recent international study of trust in different institutions by Edelman Research, for instance, referred to a “cycle of distrust” fueled by widespread lack of faith in gov

A worker wearing protective gear walks through a locked-down neighborhood in the city’s Huangpu district on March 17. China’s COVID-19 case numbers jumped from 100 new cases daily three weeks ago to more than 1,000 this past week. The country is seei

This film starring Lady Gaga is up for only one Oscar— Best Makeup and Hairstyling—much to the chagrin of Gaga fans who thought she’d take home a nomination for her portrayal of Patrizia Reggiani. Set entirely in Italy, backdrops for the crime drama

A worker carries bundles of flowers while tending to giant tecolote ranunculus blooms at Carlsbad Ranch on March 16. The working agricultural flower farm in North San Diego County features approximately 70 million ranunculus flowers spread across nea

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shone the spotlight on a small coterie of fabulously rich Russians with ties to President Vladimir Putin. Many of these so-called oligarchs amassed great wealth through the privitazation of state assets after the coll

WHEN RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR Putin ordered the first of his 190,000 troops into Ukraine on February 24, the invasion had a seismic effect on Europe and the Western world. But tremors were also felt some 5,000 miles to the east: Taiwan rapidly beca

A supermarket stands littered with wrecked merchandise the morning after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of the Fukushima prefecture on March 16. The quake killed at least four people, injured more than 100 others and cut off power

IF YOU’RE A DIRECTOR LOOKING to cast a female actor to play a real-life person, a handful of actresses come to mind, and one of those actresses is Renée Zellweger. She won an Oscar playing one of the most recognizable entertainers in Hollywood histor

THERE’S A LOT OF CHATTER these days, sometimes wistful, about Civil War 2.0. Recently, Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican, said Texas could take its oil, NASA and go its own way. In January, professor Barbara Walter warned of the possibility of a

WHEN SHOULD THE U.S. INTERVENE IN FOREIGN CONFLICTS? › When and where should America get involved, including the current Ukraine crisis? Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Jim Hanson, executive director of America