Opera in the living room: an old tradition sees restoration in Italy
Opera marks status to this day: with membership in the exclusive Club dei 27, a group of 27 associations named after each of Verdi’s operas, or in the boxes...
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Critics in the Senate take on Trump as he heads to the Hill to sell tax reform
Donald Trump made his first visit as president to the Senate on Tuesday, trying to unite his party around tax reform at a lunch with Senate Republicans. What dropped...
What the US is really doing in Niger
The tragic deaths of four US service members in an ambush in Niger have awoken Washington and US voters to the larger issue of American military deployments in Africa...
After a historic default, Argentina is a far cry from its past
The world’s largest economies are awash in red ink, the International Monetary Fund reported in October. In 2001, after decades of subsidizing basic services in order to win elections,...
Breaking barriers, Arab-Israeli women join movement to 'wage peace'
Sitting in the corner of a café in this compact Mediterranean port that is home to both Jews and Arabs, Ghadir Hani describes her frustration with the inertia of...
From #MeToo to #MenToo? Why men play a role in battling harassment
The fall from grace of movie producer Harvey Weinstein suggests an American public that is growing less tolerant of sexual assault and harassment – less willing to accept it...
From ISIS to elephants: the tale of a unique anti-poaching force
Lt. Col. Faye Cuevas says the two decades she spent fighting terror networks was the perfect preparation for her current job: saving elephants in Kenya. The presence of elephants,...
Defeating Islamic State by example
In a highly symbolic victory against Islamic State (ISIS) last week, the US military helped liberate the group’s de facto capital of Raqqa after a four-month battle. Once a...
After Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas grapples with how to heal together
A wellness counselor for HIV-positive individuals at a Las Vegas nonprofit, Mr. Mendoza focused on his clients’ needs in the days following the Oct. 1 tragedy, when Stephen Paddock opened...
Bewildered by US Congress’s apathy on mass shootings, Why US Congress will not pass gun laws, Myanmar’s openness to a Rohingya return is the first step, Saudi Arabia’s female driving ban lift is a smokescreen, Catalonia crackdown is democracy’s slow death
“Around the world, people are aghast at the latest atrocity in the US…,” writes Mark Kenny. “The Las Vegas mass shooting is ‘the worst in US history’…. If …...
