If, like me, you live in the Northeast, you’ve likely found it impossible to escape the story of the month. No, not the killing of a major health care executive on the streets of Midtown Manhattan. No, not the sudden and entirely unforeseen collapse of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the end […]

The American right has spent the past week performing an interesting tap dance: condemning the left for cheering on one alleged killer while turning another into a right-wing celebrity. In the first case, health care CEO shooting suspect Luigi Mangione, the right is appalled by (the admittedly appalling) celebrations in a certain corner of the […]

The first time I got a Novavax Covid vaccine, it felt almost subversive.  Over the previous few years, every mRNA-based booster I’d gotten — the ones made by Moderna and Pfizer — had felt like a two-day bout of the flu. I’d gamely booked sick days into my calendar and sucked it up through fevers, headaches, […]

Tens of millions of tourists visit Turkey each year, most of whom are there to see the convergence of East and West. It’s a place where Europe meets Asia, where history collides with modernism, where you can find a dazzling combination of culture and cool unlike anywhere else on planet Earth. But among those millions […]

Canada’s government is in trouble. The government currently in charge of the country — led by longtime Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — took its latest hit on Monday, when Trudeau’s right-hand official (and former staunch ally), Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, surprised Canadians by offering her resignation in a spectacular fashion, issuing […]