HONG KONG — How and why have Hong Kongers managed to keep going for months, and in such large numbers, waging wave after wave of protest to oppose encroachment from China, despite the vast differences among them? One major point of contention concerns whether to resort to nonpeaceful action and how close to skirt with […]

Last week’s ugly mess involving the abortive visit to Israel of two Democratic congresswomen was useful for only one reason: It exposed how much the Palestinian-Israeli peace process has become a pathetic festival of magical thinking, performance art, reality denial, political fund-raising and outright political fraud. It’s become about everything except what it needs to […]

President Trump and his followers delight in his image as a disrupter — a dauntless fighter raring to take on entrenched political interests and sacred cows. But when it comes to addressing America’s gun problem, Mr. Trump has proved both conventional and weak. As the shock fades of this month's back-to-back massacres in Texas and […]

It is time Sinn Féin grew up and stopped living in the past. In a recent interview on the Troubles, Gerry Adams stated:  “All thinking republicans are committed to peaceful and democratic means.” Well if Gerry is committed to democratic means, why doesn’t Sinn Féin take its seats in Westminster? This is one time Sinn […]

Good morning. We’re covering increased scrutiny of police behavior in Hong Kong, a rare look at life today inside war-torn Syria and the deepening mystery of the Himalayas’ skeleton lake. Hong Kong police officers’ arrest fuels brutality concerns Two Hong Kong police officers were arrested on Tuesday after a video appeared to show them hitting […]

To the Editor: “Will Hong Kong Become Tiananmen?,” by Madeleine Thien (Sunday Review, Aug. 18), is a reminder of the fact that the Communist Party of China never completely bought into the concept of “one country, two systems.” I was in China in 1997 on the day that Britain returned the crown colony to China, […]

Op-Docs In the late 1960s, Haddon Salt built a fast-food empire. Then Kentucky Fried Chicken came knocking. By Ben Proudfoot Mr. Proudfoot is an Emmy-winning filmmaker and entrepreneur, and a former magician. On a spring day nearly seven years ago, I stepped away from my desk as C.E.O. of my then-fledgling filmmaking company to grab […]

Antonio Basco’s car was stolen and wrecked on Saturday, just hours after he hosted thousands of strangers at a funeral for his wife, who died in the El Paso mass shooting. But just as thousands came together to honour her life on Saturday, they came together again to get him a new set of wheels. […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – Knight Vinke wants Alpiq to stop its delisting and the squeezeout of minority shareholders following a takeover by a pension-backed Swiss investment fund, the activist investor said in a letter published on Tuesday. In May, the Credit Suisse-managed CSA Energy Infrastructure Switzerland fund announced a takeover bid, offering shareholders 70 Swiss francs […]

Good morning. We’re covering an unpredictable vote in Italy, an unofficial campaign for a British general election and mourning for a glacier lost to climate change. Will Italy’s government collapse? A no-confidence vote scheduled today against Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte would seem to spell the end for Italy’s rocky government coalition — but it’s not […]