Putin Signals Openness to Diplomacy While Blaming U.S. for Crisis
MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin said on Tuesday that the United States was trying to pull Russia into an armed conflict over Ukraine that …
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How the American Right Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Russia
Last week, before Russian threats toward Ukrainian borders turned into an all-out invasion, one part of the American media landscape questioned …
How to Fix Facebook
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns. This is the most important moment in the history of …
Maps show where Merkel’s party lost ground: everywhere.
Germany’s mainstream conservatives, long the dominant force in the country’s politics, suffered the worst defeat in their history in the election …
Put a Female Statue on a Vacant Pedestal? An Italian City Says Not So Fast.
ROME — Prato della Valle is the largest public square in Italy, well, it is really an oval, with a canal lined with statues surrounding an …
These Poached Eggs Aren’t Picture-Perfect. That’s What Makes Them Beautiful.
It was nearing midnight on Day 8 of a two-week photo shoot when I rolled out dough for a sheet of graham crackers. Using a long ruler as a guide …
The Smoky Taste of Wok Hei, Without a Wok
My youngest child recently said to me, “I wish I was more Chinese.” We were eating mooncakes, trying to catch the bits of salted preserved egg …
Why Omicron Makes You Feel Numb Instead of Terrified
It could have been a scene straight out of an apocalyptic horror movie. When the World Health Organization declared the Omicron variant of the …
Facebook Is Not Ready for the 2022 Election Wave
The world is not ready for the coming electoral tsunami. Neither is Facebook. With so many elections on the horizon — France, Kenya, Australia …
Zelensky and Trump: Two Performers, One Hero
WASHINGTON — History is full of strange odysseys and intersections. But it’s bizarre that two men who were both front page news in the Friday …