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Ukraine Halts the Flow of Natural Gas From Russia to Europe
A transnational pipeline was shut down on Wednesday after Kyiv refused to renew a prewar agreement that allowed for the transit of Russian gas through its territory.
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Rebels Easily Toppled Syria’s Army. Their Challenge Now: Rebuilding.
The rebels’ path to victory is littered with evidence of Syria’s defeated military. It also reflects the sizable task of trying to put the country back together.
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Tensions Escalate After Pakistan Pounds Afghanistan With Airstrikes
Pakistani leaders were once friends of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Now, cross-border violence has become alarmingly frequent.
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A Mexican Mayor’s Odyssey: From Undocumented Migrant to Cartel Target
A former undocumented resident of California who now runs a town in Mexico, Crispín Agustín Mendoza has survived one assassination attempt. But he says, “I have to learn how to survive.”
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At Trevi Fountain in Rome, Tourists’ Coins Go to Good Cause
Who gets to spend the millions of euros in change tossed into the Roman landmark?
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The Acid Comedy of Thomas Schütte, the Man in the Mud
In a MoMA retrospective filled with humorous angst, the German sculptor offers a prime 2025 resolution: Don’t run from failure.
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Happy New Year from Chaz Ebert and All of Us at RogerEbert.com
HAPPY NEW YEAR! And thank you for joining us here at RogerEbert.com as we share our film reviews, TV/streaming reviews, collections, interviews, journal entries and more. All of our contributors and their individual collections of published work can be found here. None of it happens without this super Editorial Team: Managing Editor, Brian Tallerico; Editor-at-Large, Matt Zoller Seitz; Contributing Editor, Nell Minow; Associate Editor, Robert Daniels; and Assistant Editor Clint…
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The Unloved, Part 133: Here
In keeping with October and November’s Unloveds, this video essay is as much an exploration of a freshly neglected movie as it is a tribute and thank you to some of my favorite writers. As Dave Kehr will tell you, Robert Zemeckis‘ “Here” is one of the most unjustly neglected movies of the decade with…
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Female Filmmakers in Focus: Maura Delpero on “Vermiglio”
Few things are as common yet as earth-shattering as love and death. Maura Delpero’s “Vermiglio” explores these core human experiences in all their thorny complexities. In this remote Italian village in the alps, where time seems suspended in air, they intermingle with human life as seamlessly as the townsfolk blend into the vastness of the…
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Big Rockets, a Big Telescope and Big Changes in Space Await in 2025
Here are some key events to look forward to in space and astronomy in the year ahead.