World & Nation
British media report that the Conservative Party’s chief data officer has taken a leave of absence amid allegations that party members bet on the date of Britain’s July 4 election.
June 23, 2024
Books
Sarah Rose Etter spent a few demoralizing years in Silicon Valley tech. It paid off with ‘Ripe,’ a surreal new novel that just might make her a household name.
July 10, 2023
Opinion
Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider for your July reading list.
July 3, 2024
Iceland’s government says it has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation’s last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year.
June 11, 2024
California
The effort to name the federal courthouse in L.A. after the Mendez family seems like the type of feel-good story this country needs more of these days. So who on earth could be opposed to it?
June 20, 2024
Awards
‘She believes in herself and she’s never embarrassed,’ the actor says of her character. She was drawn to the show’s mix of absurdist comedy and emotional drama.
June 17, 2024
Sylvia Mendez well remembers being sent to a “Mexican school” in Orange County. Her parents’ landmark lawsuit challenged segregated schools in California.
April 14, 2022
Utah’s upcoming Republican primary will determine whether voters want another moderate conservative or a farther-right candidate.
Britain’s government says thousands of victims of the U.K.’s infected blood scandal will start receiving their final compensation payments this year.
May 21, 2024
Some 3,000 people died and many others had lifelong illnesses after receiving blood tainted with HIV or hepatitis in Britain from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
May 20, 2024