Biden’s Fiery Defiance, and a Skeptical Supreme Court

Gary Graham, a veteran actor best known for portraying Ambassador Soval on the television show “Star Trek: Enterprise” and the detective Matthew Sikes in the “Alien Nation” franchise, died on Monday at his home in Spokane Valley, Wash. He was 73. His death was confirmed by his wife, Becky Graham,…

A beautiful person is so often a confrontation. Even in silence, symmetrical features announce their presence and elicit a reaction: desire, admiration, curiosity, resentment, belittlement, rage or envy. The response is rarely neutral. In this way, beautiful people are different from comedians who have to work for a crowd’s attention….

Interest rates are heading down. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of this year (at least). Why? Because there are very good reasons for the Federal Reserve, which controls short-term interest rates — that’s how it makes monetary policy — to start reversing…

Lisa Francis was trying to drive home from her job at a bank in Lahaina when the firestorm caught up to her. It was 5 p.m. on Tuesday, and she was trapped in traffic near the ocean. Whipped by bruising winds, the firestorm was raging its way west toward her…

Daphne Richemond-Barak, the author of “Underground Warfare,” writes in Foreign Policy magazine: “Never in the history of tunnel warfare has a defender been able to spend months in such confined spaces. The digging itself, the innovative ways Hamas has made use of the tunnels and the group’s survival underground for…