An eight-year-old Nigerian refugee, who was living in a New York homeless shelter for two years with his family, has won a state chess championship, sparking a viral campaign to get the family a place to live. The New York Times reported that Tani Adewumi won the state chess title for his age group this […]

(Reuters) – Glossier Inc, the online cosmetics company with a cult following among millennials, has raised $100 million in funding led by Sequoia Capital, as it readies new products after sales doubled last year. The funding gives the company a valuation of $1.2 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, placing it among a […]

Tourists armed with their selfie sticks are flocking to a California town by the thousands to get a glimpse of the rare occurrence known as the “super bloom,” making it “unbearable” for the locals. The city of Lake Elsinore was plagued with nearly 150,000 people over the weekend who flocked to area to see orange […]

Late Saturday night, Facebook shared some dizzying statistics that begin to illustrate the scale of the online impact of the New Zealand massacre as the gunman’s video spread across social media. According to the social network, the graphic, high-definition video of the attack was uploaded by users 1.5 million times in the first 24 hours. […]

Many high achievers, particularly women and people of color, suffer from impostor syndrome, the fear that they don’t belong in the rarefied realm to which they’ve ascended and that they will soon be found out. Even Michelle Obama, who is, according to a Gallup poll conducted last year, the most admired woman in America, has […]

It was one of those disappointments that stuck with me. Just a football match that turned sour like so many others, but one I can instantly recall. The great World Cup of 1970 in Mexico was the first one I truly engaged with as a fan. It is best remembered as the Pele tournament, of […]

Like many things to have been thrown overboard in the wake of the Brexit vote two and a half years ago, the old adage that “a week is a long time in politics” now seems hopelessly naive. After all, the past week’s worth of chicanery in Westminster alone would normally be enough drama to fill […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. New Zealand investigates how the massacre could have been avoided, China gets a toehold in Europe and Apple prepares to unveil its next big thing. Here’s the latest: New Zealand asks what it could have done differently Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ordered an […]

We commonly assume that anti-Semitism and related attitudes are a product of ignorance and fear, or fanatical beliefs, or some other irrational force. But it is by now well known that some of the most accomplished thinkers in modern societies have defended anti-Semitic views. For instance, several of the major Enlightenment philosophers — including Hume, […]

My first encounter in America was with a luggage cart. In the summer of 1992, when I landed at Kennedy Airport, I carried with me a travel bag filled with books. It was so heavy that it could not be checked in at my originating airport in Casablanca, Morocco, without putting me over the weight […]