A “gloriously erudite” critic, he denounced the embrace of blandly functional architecture in efforts to rebuild after World War II.
The war with Iran is preventing huge amounts of oil from flowing out of the Persian Gulf, but the prices that many people track don’t fully capture the scale of the disruption....
Renewable energy is cheaper to run than fossil fuels, especially with war choking oil supply. But it hasn’t turned out that way for some European countries, and the reason is complex....
California’s ballot initiative wars are so lucrative that signature gatherers are offering cash and pizza for names on a petition. The exchange is illegal, and state officials say they are investigating....
Soaring energy costs led to the biggest monthly increase in the Consumer Price Index since the peak of the post-pandemic inflation crisis in June 2022....
The cost at the pump made its biggest monthly percentage increase in decades amid lingering tensions over the war in Iran....
Vice President JD Vance is leading negotiations this weekend toward an end to a war that he had opposed starting....
A temporary cease-fire in the war on Iran faces multiple hurdles and investors are watching the release of U.S. government data on inflation....
Delta Air Lines, Amazon, the United States Postal Service and others have said they are raising prices because of higher energy costs connected to the war in Iran....
The foreign policy analyst Fareed Zakaria explains how the Iran war has been a turning point in America’s standing in the world....
A million people in Lebanon have fled their homes as Israel clashes anew with Hezbollah. This is what their lives look now....
Through art, food, tourism and academics, an increasingly isolated Moscow is seeking to cement lasting ties with Pyongyang....
In the Pacific Northwest, mail-in ballots have been the norm for decades, but President Trump’s war on such voting has turned a point of regional pride into another partisan battle line....
The cease-fire would be in effect this weekend, but each side accused the other of violating a similar pause announced last year....
Six month’s after the cease-fire, ordinary Gazans contemplate their future while living with the wounds of war....
Vladimir Putin has spent years building a coalition of the discontented on the premise that authoritarian states can outlast Western pressure. Iran is his proof of concept....
In a lengthy social media post, the president attacked Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and others in starkly personal terms. He also criticized the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal....
For Iran’s theocratic rulers, just surviving the U.S.-Israeli onslaught means victory. But the seeds of their next crisis may already be planted....
President Trump is citing the unwillingness of European nations to back the United States in the conflict as another reason to scale back or abandon the alliance. And he still wants Greenland....
John Healey, the defense secretary, said the vessels were gathering information about undersea pipelines, and said he believed President Vladimir V. Putin “would want us to be distracted by the Middle East.”...
Will the shooting really stop? What should be Trump’s red lines? A discussion on where America’s war on Iran stands....
Talks to end the war in Ukraine could resume soon, said President Volodymyr Zelensky as he expressed skepticism about a breakthrough....
As Moscow throttles Russia’s few remaining independent voices, the authorities targeted two of the most prominent, one a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the other headed by a Nobel laureate....
A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it....
Nailya Allakhverdiyeva tried compromising with the authorities so she could continue showing contemporary art. But the intimidation didn’t end....
Vessels are wary of passing the coast of Iran in the strait, given the fragile agreement, and the number of ships traveling through it has even dropped....
An energy shock stemming from the fighting has added a layer of complexity to the Federal Reserve’s decision-making around interest rates....
An entrepreneur behind drones that make the final strike themselves epitomizes the transformation of Ukraine’s civilian technology industry into a defense powerhouse....
Most stock investors have lost money during the Iran war, but returns have been splendid for the year since the “Liberation Day” tariff announcement....
The Tremont, Pa., area has roughly 2,000 residents and limited resources. The Trump administration plans to convert a warehouse there to hold nearly four times as many people....
The Hungarian leader’s 16-year rule could be coming to a close....
