Politics Aug 01 CPB says it is shutting down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by Trump The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday it would take steps toward its own closure after being defunded by Congress — marking the end of a nearly six-decade era in which it fueled the production of renowned educational programming, cultural…
World Sep 28 At UN, China warns against ‘expansion of the battlefield’ in Russia’s war with Ukraine Three days before his communist government turns 75, China's foreign minister warned fellow leaders Saturday against an “expansion of the battlefield” in Russia's war with Ukraine and said the Beijing government remains committed to shuttle diplomacy and efforts to push…
World Sep 26 At UN, North Korea says the U.S. made 2023 more dangerous and accuses it of fomenting an Asian NATO Kim Song also denounced both U.S. and South Korean leaders for "hysterical remarks of confrontation" that it says are raising the temperature in the region.
World Sep 20 WATCH: 2023 United Nations General Assembly – Day 3 China told assembled world leaders that it considers itself part of the Global South, saying it identifies with the goals and challenges of less-developed nations and offering them an alternative to what it has long called “Western hegemony.”…
World Sep 19 WATCH: 2023 United Nations General Assembly – Day 2 South Korea’s president sounded a warning to fellow world leaders about the recent communication and possible cooperation between North Korea and Russia.
Nation May 16 How the American Dream convinced people loneliness is normal American lore is full of tales of the lone cowboy, the rugged individualist who will do what needs to be done and ride off into the sunset. In reality, loneliness in America can be deadly.
Nation Apr 23 Analysis: Why the American front door can be a perilous border between public and private space In a land where private property is venerated and “get off my lawn” has become a mantra of jokey crankiness, the American front door is the landscape’s most intimate and personal of borders, the place where the public sphere encounters…
Arts Feb 10 How a chicken ‘wing’ without a bone became one of America’s tastiest culinary lies Americans are set to consume an estimated 1.45 billion chicken wings this Super Bowl weekend but some of them will be boneless — and thus not actual chicken wings.
World Sep 24 WATCH: China tells world leaders ‘external interference’ on Taiwan won’t be tolerated China underscored its commitment Saturday to its claim on Taiwan, telling assembled world leaders that anyone who gets in the way of its determination to reunify with the self-governing island would be “crushed by the wheels of history.”…
World Sep 21 WATCH: 2022 United Nations General Assembly – Day 2 The head of the U.N. had just warned of a world gone badly wrong — a place where inequity was on the rise, war was back in Europe, fragmentation was everywhere, the pandemic was pushing onward and technology was tearing…