Scientists once thought that life-sustaining oxygen existed only near Earth’s surface. Then they detected it deep underground.

Maybe there’s still hope for a new morning, for clouds that cluster like ripe grapes which, when squeezed, will release from the heavens the sweet streams of enchanted days.

Last month, the image of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo being pinned to the ground, his torso pierced by a bullet, became the latest evocation of that history. Salgado was fifty-two, and had been living in ...

In December, 1996, Bill Clinton, having just won a second term as President, repeatedly asked Terry McAuliffe, his top fund-raiser, to consider stepping into the role of chairman of the Democratic ...

You’re reading Global Notes, Ishaan Tharoor’s weekly column on international politics. The inauguration of Colombia’s new far-right President, Abelardo de la Espriella, was attended by a cast of his ...

One navigating rapids at the Olympics: seven letters.