The video game Despelote, set against Ecuador’s journey to the 2002 World Cup, is filled with the sights and sounds of its country and candid, autobiographical details.
Despite romance’s reputation as light comfort reading, the genre has a bass line of chaos pulsing through it — the distinction being that romance presents chaos as survivable, even if your entire world is upended. Chaos by Constance Fay CHAOS ...
The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue “A railway carriage is as intimate as a dinner party, but one with no host and guests assembled at random.” You’ll find plenty of intimacy but few displays of party manners among the passengers Donoghue introduces ...
There is no question that Donald Trump’s ambition in the first 100 days of his return to the Oval Office was to set a new standard for presidential accomplishment. To rival, even surpass, the scope of Franklin Roosevelt’s efforts nearly a century ago ...
In this episode of “The Opinions,” the deputy Opinion editor Patrick Healy is joined by the columnists Maureen Dowd and Carlos Lozada to dissect the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term and prepare for what’s to come. Maureen Dowd and ...
Elon Musk may be stepping back from running the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, but his legacy there is already secured. DOGE is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system for the Trump administration — the likes of which we ...
According to the 2025 World Happiness Report, which was released last month, the happiest country in the world is Finland, trailed closely by Denmark, Iceland and Sweden. This news came as no surprise. The report, released annually since 2012 by a ...