EL PASO, Texas — The battle of the border was an epic desert showdown between two gifted politicians, each marshaling around 10,000 people, one blessed with the truth, the other peddling lies. And yet, to Donald Trump’s mystifying credit, the lie survived to fight another day. We tell some tall tales here in Texas. But […]

And lo! On the seventh day, the Lord (well, in this instance, the Unicode Consortium) decided there should be a period emoji. A “menstruation” emoji, to be precise: a perfectly rounded, red droplet, designed to tackle stigma and encourage conversation around periods. Naturally, in a world where a significant percentage of us struggle to communicate […]

There was once a popular TV commercial for an insurance company which boasted the famous promise “we won’t make a drama out of a crisis”. Oh, to now have such clear heads at the tiller in this country, where it’s becoming increasingly clear we have already left mere “crisis” behind and are heading full speed […]

Last Valentine’s Day, a year ago this Thursday, classes were wrapping up at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a former student with a semiautomatic rifle murdered 17 people and wounded 17 others. It so happens that this Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee will move to advance legislation requiring background checks on all firearm sales. […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. President Trump heads to the border to argue for a wall, young South Koreans try to climb out of mountains of debt and A.I. holds promise for healthcare. Here’s the latest: A tale of two rallies President Trump is headed to the border […]

Medicare for All. The Green New Deal. Free college tuition. With each new entrant into the Democratic presidential sweepstakes comes a fresh cascade of ambitious social programs to entice and excite would-be supporters. The list of “payfors,” to use a bit of Washington jargon, grows more slowly. They’ll pay for this how, again? Tax the […]

(Reuters) – A set of Indian investors are keen to join the infrastructure investment trust (InvIT) led by Brookfield Asset Management Inc to buy East West Pipeline Ltd (EWPL) for an enterprise value of 130 billion rupees ($1.83 billion), the Economic Times reported on Monday, quoting people aware of the development. EWPL, earlier known as […]

(Reuters) – Just Eat Plc shareholder Cat Rock Capital Management LP on Monday urged the British takeaway ordering website to start merger discussions, saying it would benefit from a deal rather than relying on a new chief executive officer. Cat Rock’s statement comes less than a month after Just Eat Chief Executive Officer Peter Plumb […]

Why did Russia argue that the United States should keep the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty intact and then recently declare its own suspension of the treaty? After all, it has deployed many of the very missiles banned by the treaty. Russia began the covert development of this class of missiles, probably in the mid-2000s, in […]

The two civil servants looked at what might reasonably be achieved by reasonable men. Neither was an ideologue. TK Whitaker was 52 at the time of their meeting. Sir Arthur Snelling was two years his senior. One was in the throes of modernising the economy of a young Republic. The other was managing the decline […]