Новости за 26.12.2024

We’re a few million bucks away from building the world’s biggest extension cord.

One evening during the Summer Olympics last August, I wandered through central Paris at dusk with a friend. We watched on a café TV as the American sprinter Noah Lyles narrowly won the hundred-meter dash and became the fastest man in the world, then we continued down the stately rue de Rivoli and through the […]

Eliza Griswold, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, begins her latest book, Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church, by announcing her method as “immersion journalism.” The technique, she suggests, is “unruly,” akin to climbing into a stranger’s car and going along for the ride, wherever it takes her. The […]

Something has gone terribly wrong. In his 2004 book Why Globalization Works, the economics journalist Martin Wolf wrote that “liberal democracy is the only political and economic system capable of generating sustained prosperity and political stability.” He was articulating the elite consensus of the time, a belief that liberal democratic capitalism was not only a […]

Balzac’s The Lily in the Valley gives full-throated voice to romantic passion and at the same time contains it, inflating its rhetoric while ironizing it.

sky and congestion    up ahead—why wait in line    with this chewed boot, this cold breakfast river below    and everywhere the straight face    of a season passing— long mile    separates ice from ice             here—maybe            a whole work— knife cut, bleached peppers,    vinegar and light round clock    is a loose knot in time    a plain devotion

No artist has tried harder to get photographs and text to bring each other urgently to life than Jim Goldberg.

My face is a case studyin gravity. A face study. A grave.Effaced, I introduce myselfby name, a quippydelegate, ceci Susan,this lifelong stand-in.Named after my motheror rather, the pseudonym that hidher foreign origin. Shoushik.She’d take her breakfaston the balcony. Tehran1943. Feeding the antsand plants her onion-tisanemilk. My little mother.From her ovariescame I. An alloy.Reproduction reproducesinexactly, doesn’t […]

A blank indifference to cruelty and atrocity as a normative mode of waging war has infected Israel's collective conscience.

Two memoirs by women remembering their youthful relationships with older men complicate the definition and implications of “consent.”

When the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky first saw a tape of Balanchine’s Apollo, he watched in disbelief. Here was elegance without exaggeration, tension and beauty without stagy excess.

We’ve seen many skirmishes in America’s culture wars over the decades; one recent round, over abortion, was on the ballot in ten states during the 2024 elections. But the most dramatic battle of them all, between two of the twentieth century’s greatest orators, took place in 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, after the high school teacher […]

There is widespread relief after Assad's fall, though no one is more aware than Syrians themselves of the dangers and challenges that await them.

In Sam Gold's Romeo + Juliet, the lovers' headlong rush into marriage is in tension throughout with the surprising regression to childhood that characterizes so much of the production.

Trying to avoid suffering can paradoxically make it worse. You can train your mind to find a better way.

A man was shot and killed by police after allegedly threatening residents and staff of a suburban assisted living facility with a chainsaw, with officers attempting to tase the man before eventually firing after he continued trying to attack others with the chainsaw. What do you think?

WASHINGTON—Noting that the fasteners commonly found on most trousers were not merely ornamental, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory to the American public Thursday in which he clarified that people were supposed to be able to button their pants. “It should be a smooth effortless action that involves no protracted struggle to connect the […]

All of statistics and much of science depends on probability—an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is

COMMENTARY | Government and private sector organizations have begun to recognize that physical and virtual assets must be protected from cyber threats in the same way as IT.

A white Christmas is shown in incredible images captured in space.

Coventry City live matchday blog from CoventryLive as Sky Blues reporter Andy Turner brings you live updates from the CBS Arena

You can count on these picks to effectively cleanse, clarify, nourish, and strengthen your hair.

No, Dad, I didn't "go to middle school with Rick Owens"—but I doubt he wanted socks either.

Being able to touch your toes is a lot more important than you might think.

Exercise is great for your muscles, mental health and research shows — also your eyes.