(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. President Trump threatened to close the southern border and cut off aid to countries in Central America if Congress refuses to fund a wall. The president’s threats came on the seventh day of a partial shutdown that has affected […]

In November, 100 brand-new electric buses rolled off a cargo ship from China at the port of San Antonio on the Chilean coast. Their impressive convoy from the coast to the capital, Santiago, where they will be incorporated into the city’s public fleet, was shared widely on Twitter as evidence of where public transportation is […]

Sean Tanner died in October, making this Christmas the first one the police officer’s family would celebrate without him. But the family made sure he would not be forgotten. His older sister, Brittany Garcia, gifted their parents a custom-made teddy bear dressed as a police officer. The bear had included a recording of his voice. […]

The remains of the turkey’s been curried, the straggler gifts have been given and on Monday we’ll see out the old year, and with it the last of the festive sparkle. Even if you’re the type to leave the tree up until Nollaig na mBan, the Christmas magic ends when you’re trudging home in high […]

How did it get so late so soon? It is a question anyone who has ever been singed by the after-burn of a missed deadline asks. As the lid closes on one year and the gift of a new one is here to be opened, it seems appropriate to look at some of our national […]

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Elections in Bangladesh are never tame. There were boycotts during the last parliamentary election in 2014, and voting-day violence killed some 20 people. The one before that, in December 2008, was notable for having taken place at all: Originally scheduled for January 2007, it was postponed after a military-backed coup and street […]

As 2018 draws to an end, we’re seeing many articles about the state of the economy. What I’d like to do, however, is talk about something different — the state of economics, at least as it relates to the political situation. And that state is not good: The bad faith that dominates conservative politics at […]

It’s a classic bit of Canadiana for the holiday season: an outdoor hockey tournament on a scale never seen before in the Calgary area. Organizers of the Western Canada Pond Hockey Championships figured they might get 40 teams for the event, but they ended up being forced to cap it after 61 teams signed up. […]

For years, companies have maintained low expectations about hiring people with disabilities. Most of these companies believed that employees with disabilities could not perform well in the workplace and that actively hiring them would drag company performance and profits down. Thankfully, over time, many employers have come to understand that these perceptions are untrue. And […]

The last few months of 2018 have seen the Democrats take over the House of Representatives and Republicans retain control of the Senate; a flurry of revelations about the Kremlin’s role in the 2016 election; an economy that may be beginning to stumble; and signals from numerous Democratic candidates that they are considering bids for […]