In 1771 Oliver Goldsmith sent a friend a short report on a sitting member of Parliament: “Burke is a farmer – en attendant a better place, but visiting about too.” The report was accurate. That autumn the member wrote to […]
Six rallies in a row, the ball goes crosscourt to the backhand corner. Nothing about it is dramatic. It lands deep, a few feet inside the sideline, with enough height to push the opponent back and not enough pace to […]
On almost any Saturday in the spring of 2021, an open house in Sunnyvale went something like this. The house was a three-bedroom ranch on a cul-de-sac, one of thousands put up in the late 1950s for the engineers and […]
On high ground above tree line, trails are often marked by cairns: small stacks of stones, one in sight of next, trails leading across rock where no path wears into the ground. Nobody knows who are their builders. A hiker […]
On Saturday a Houthi missile hit Riyadh's international airport for the third time in a week. Saudi Arabia says at least twelve people were killed and about three hundred wounded, the deadliest attack on the kingdom in more than a […]
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