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In the tug of war over Taiwan, chips play a decisive role.
A hundred miles of typhoon-swept sea from China’s southeastern coast, a string of colossal factories in Taiwan churns out the…
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Taiwan’s leader, Tsai Ing-wen, has vowed to defend its sovereignty.
Taiwan’s leader, Tsai Ing-wen, owes her presidency to her pledge to preserve the island’s sovereignty. Her meeting with Speaker Nancy…
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Barcelona Spent Its Way Into Crisis. Can It Now Spend Its Way Out?
Joan Laporta’s smile was hard to miss. Staring down from a vast digital billboard last month, the grinning image of…
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Footprints Discovery Suggests Ancient ‘Ghost Tracks’ May Cover the West
Scientists have discovered ancient human footprints in Utah, traces, they say, of adults and children who walked barefoot along a…
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Trump Has Big Plans for 2025
As he contemplates a third straight run for the presidency, Donald Trump has a multimillion-dollar political machine and a network…
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The Bad Faith of the New Religious Right
Produced by ‘The Argument’ The sweeping rise of Christian nationalism on the right has taken extreme forms since the election…
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This Is How the U.S. Will Stand With Taiwan
Vladimir Putin’s brutal attack on his Ukrainian neighbors has sparked global outrage — and forged unprecedented unity — among the…
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American Democracy Is Not the Beacon It Once Was for Africa’s Elite
NAIROBI — A Kenyan friend of mine who graduated from Harvard Business School recently told me that the United States…
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The Violent Fantasies of Blake Masters
Blake Masters’s first campaign ad opens with a shot of the Sonoran Desert. A plaintive piano theme tinkles as Mr.…
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Are Participles a Thing of the Past?
I want to follow up on the topic of language evolution that I took up in my previous newsletter about…