At 27, Verena Bahlsen entered the leadership of the family company that had produced biscuits for generations. Two years later, she was gone. The departure marked the end of an unusually public
While discussing about the progress of civilization, the question arises as to what should be the criteria for evaluating the progress or otherwise of civilization. Should civilization assessment be made on the
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When Israeli forces withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000 after 18 years of occupation, the departure became a symbol of a campaign many Israelis had come to view as costly and unresolved.
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A suspicion can now begin with a simple feeling: a text sounds too polished, too predictable, too much like something generated by a machine. Increasingly, that suspicion is being tested through Pangram,
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From a converted barn in New Hampshire, with an American flag draped behind him, Ken Burns looks back across nearly five decades of documenting the United States. The filmmaker, widely known as
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More than a thousand interviews, confidential conversations and behind-the-scenes accounts form the foundation of Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, a detailed examination of Donald Trump’s second term by
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The winding roads of the Texas Hill Country lead not only through the landscape that shaped Lyndon Baines Johnson, but also through the unresolved questions surrounding the meaning of American leadership, democracy
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As negotiations over the conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran continue, experts say Tehran’s reliance on proxy groups is expected to remain central to its regional and global strategy, underscoring
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Deep beneath the vast deserts of Egypt lies a mineral wealth that has attracted explorers for thousands of years. Today, the country is turning once again toward those landscapes in an effort
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Xiang Biao has become an unusual intellectual figure in China: an academic whose ideas have reached a mass audience. Although much of his career has unfolded abroad, the Chinese anthropologist has developed
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When The New York Times assigns five journalists, including a police reporter, a court reporter and a politics editor, to investigate a wedding rumor, it signals that the event is more than
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Europe’s Digital Independence Test: AI Power, US Controls and the Race for Technological Sovereignty
The global race for artificial intelligence dominance has entered a new phase as governments debate who controls the world’s most powerful technologies. A decision by the United States to restrict access to
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For eight years, Morocco has lived with a clock set closer to much of Europe than to its own traditional timetable. Now, after years of public debate and criticism, the North African
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Cuba is preparing for one of the most significant economic transformations in decades, but its leadership insists that the changes represent an evolution of socialism rather than a retreat from it. President
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Latin America is experiencing one of its most significant political shifts in decades, as a series of electoral victories by right-wing movements transforms the region’s political landscape and creates new opportunities for
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The arrival of Taliban representatives in Brussels this week unfolded against a strikingly different event taking place hundreds of kilometers away in Paris. While European officials met with envoys of Afghanistan’s ruling
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