John Eastman, the conservative lawyer whose plan to block congressional certification of the 2020 election failed in spectacular fashion on Jan …
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Good morning. We’re covering China’s live-fire drills near Taiwan and a looming Russian offensive in southern Ukraine. A news broadcast in …
Continue readingPerils of Preaching Nationalism Play Out on Chinese Social Media
It doesn’t often happen that ordinary Chinese say publicly that they’re disappointed with their government. That they’re ashamed of their …
Continue readingWhen Home Is a Ferry Ship: An Influx From Ukraine Strains Europe
The duty-free shop on Deck 7 of the Isabelle has been turned into a storage locker and pantry, with suitcases heaped in the perfume section and …
Continue readingMines, Fires, Rockets: The Ravages of War Bedevil Ukraine’s Farmers
ZELENODILSK, Ukraine — Their uniforms are dusty jeans and tank-tops, and they drive tractors, not tanks, along the frontline in Russia’s war in …
Continue readingMore Than a Show: China’s Exercises Could Help It Practice Seizing Taiwan
A day after Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, visited Taiwan, celebrating it as a bulwark of democracy, the island …
Continue readingNewsom Asks Hollywood to Stop Filming in Conservative States
SACRAMENTO — Widening his attack on Republican states for their positions on guns, civil rights and abortion, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California on …
Continue readingU.S. Could Have Had Many More Doses of Monkeypox Vaccine This Year
WASHINGTON — The shortage of vaccines to combat a fast-growing monkeypox outbreak was caused in part because the Department of Health and Human …
Continue readingThe Anti-Abortion Movement Needs Minority Rule
One side effect of Roe v. Wade was that it allowed the anti-abortion movement to pretend to be on the side of democracy. True, the decision was …
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