A ‘Cataclysmic Situation’ in Haiti, and the Downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried

Were empire thrown overboard, much of the monarchy’s symbolic power would have gone with it. From her first prorogation of Parliament, Queen Elizabeth II, like her predecessors, affirmed old imperial fictions and cultivated new ones. This was her prescribed role, her monarchical duty. She reminded her grieving nation of its…

Pjetar Nikac has been the superintendent at 267 West 89th Street, an eight-story apartment building near Riverside Park, for 30 years. What happened there Friday made it a day he wouldn’t forget. Mr. Nikac was returning from a trip to the store at around 5 p.m. when he noticed an…

“Mid” is an obvious example. As a term, I don’t think it even qualifies as teenage slang anymore — it’s too useful and, by now, too widespread. In my son’s usage, things that are “mid” are things that are essentially average or slightly below. You can’t really complain about them…

Gabriel Attal, 34, is a new kind of French prime minister, more inclined to Diet Coke than a good Burgundy, at home with social media and revelations about his personal life, a natural communicator who reels off one liners like “France rhymes with power” to assert his “authority,” a favorite…

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York announced on Sunday that she had tested positive for the coronavirus. Aides said that she was asymptomatic, and that the virus had been detected as part of the governor’s testing routine in Albany. The news forced Ms. Hochul to cancel a trip she had…