(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering a congressional visit to the southwestern border and President Trump’s Independence Day plans, and looking ahead to tonight’s Women’s World Cup semifinal between the U.S. and England. Lawmakers criticize migrant holding sites A group of congressional Democrats visited two border facilities […]

Good morning. We’re covering a split in the Hong Kong protest movement, Iran’s breach of a critical nuclear fuel limit and debunked medical beliefs. Hong Kong is shaken as protesters storm legislature Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched peacefully in Hong Kong on Monday, the anniversary of the city’s return to Chinese rule in 1997 […]

American progressives have a story to tell, and they are not afraid to tell it. In this story global capitalism is a war zone. Free trade is a racket. Big business and big pharma are rapacious villains that crush the common man. In this context you need a government prepared for war. You need a […]

Big smiles, seas of red and white and Canadian flags waving in the air were all the eye could see in Kelowna’s downtown. From Waterfront Park to Kelowna’s City Park thousands of people flooded the waterfront to celebrate Canada’s 152nd birthday by taking part in a wide variety of activities for kids of all ages. […]

President Trump says he wants to make sure Iran never acquires nuclear weapons. His policy, however, is having the opposite effect: It is giving Tehran a powerful incentive to go nuclear, while at the same time making it increasingly difficult for the United States to prevent that. On Monday the official Iranian news agency announced […]

We like to think we elect charismatic, articulate, intelligent, confident and socially aware political leaders. These are also the personality features that potentially make politicians appealing to the wannabe mistress, with the addition of power thrown in. Indeed, nothing attracts more than power, with the possible exception of money, and many politicians are not deficient […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering rebooted nuclear talks between the U.S. and North Korea, a fresh round of demonstrations in Hong Kong, and big changes in the N.B.A. Breaking Iran has exceeded a key limit on how much nuclear fuel it can possess under the 2015 […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Fund manager Glennmont Partners will take a 25% stake in the Gode Wind 1 project off the coast of Germany, it said on Monday, marking its first investment in offshore wind. London-based Glennmont has 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion) of assets under management and already invests in renewable projects such as onshore […]

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe’s two plans for the next Budget – one for “a bad” Brexit, the other for “an orderly” Brexit – make good sense. But they must not be allowed obscure another important point about Ireland’s runaway public spending which must urgently be addressed. We have come through the recent controversy on the […]

Until a few years ago, I taught an undergraduate research and writing course at Cooper Union, in Manhattan’s East Village. Founded in 1859, Cooper Union is the namesake of Peter Cooper, who used his fortune from real estate, steel, railroads and glue to endow a college where education would be as “free as air and […]