We’re living in a brutalizing time: Scenes of mass savagery pervade the media. Americans have become vicious toward one another amid our disagreements. Everywhere I go, people are coping with an avalanche of negative emotions: shock, pain, contempt, anger, anx... More »
Photo: Iryna Tolmachova (Shutterstock)Cold weather means more salt on the roads and sidewalks—and your floors, tracked in on your shoes and boots and leaving salty streaks all over your home. Salt is great for dealing with ice outside—but it is terrible for... More »
What Is Cacio e Pepe? Cacio e Pepe, a classic Italian pasta dish, exemplifies the beauty of simplicity and the art of using a few high-quality ingredients to create a culinary masterpiece. With its origins deeply rooted in Rome, this iconic dish has been enjoy... More »
It’s one thing to disparage Donald Trump. It’s quite another to throw your body between him and his efforts to steal the presidency. Mike Pence, God love him, did the latter, and that sealed his doom. To the hard-core MAGA corps, tyranny is the meaty breakfast... More »
As finance ministers and central bankers convened in Marrakech for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings on 9-15 October, they faced an extraordinary confluence of economic and geopolitical calamities: wars in Ukraine and the Middle Ea... More »
Step back far enough, and you can see exactly what is driving so much geopolitics today: Ukraine is trying to join the West. Israel is trying to join a new Middle East. And Russia and Iran have teamed up to try to block both.Unfortunately, the new G.O.P. House... More »