An Extended Truce, and Kissinger’s Complicated Legacy

Anton Deibe, 17, a high school student from Stockholm, was on a trip with his family to Japan to celebrate his father’s 50th birthday. They were among the passengers on Japan Airlines Flight 516 when it collided with a Coast Guard plane on Tuesday. All the passengers and crew on…

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a California lawyer’s attempt to trademark the phrase “Trump too small.” The decision was unanimous on the bottom line but badly fractured on the rationale, with the justices arguing over whether a history-based methodology introduced in a recent Second Amendment case should be used…

He hoped to succeed Indonesia’s longtime dictator. He ordered the kidnappings of pro-democracy activists. He was accused of atrocities during the ruthless military occupation of East Timor. He has said elections run counter to his country’s culture. Even so, Prabowo Subianto has spent the past two decades trying his hand…

“When you fall below the real cost line, and then you have a period of hyper inflation, how is this any kind of good?” he said. “No matter how big of an increase Adams does, it won’t be enough.” Peter Madden, the executive director of Westbeth Artists Housing, which has…

Like so many Americans, I have been called into relationships with guns since I was a child and have been made to understand, even long before I could articulate it, that guns represented something essential about what it means to become a fully realized American man. My first guns were…