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U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine Was Poorly Tracked, Pentagon Report Says
The report found that American officials and diplomats had failed to quickly or fully account for all of the nearly 40,000 weapons sent to the front.
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Taiwan Democracy Is Loud and Proud
At the island’s election rallies, warming up the crowd for candidates is crucial. “You have to light a fire in their hearts,” one host says.
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Iranian Navy Says It Seized an Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Oman
The same vessel was involved last year in the U.S. government seizure of Iranian oil that was being transported in violation of American sanctions.
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Gaza Aid Faces Lengthy Inspections and Logistical Issues
Obstacles at two border crossings are exacerbating a growing humanitarian crisis, according to two U.S. senators and officials with the U.N. and other groups.
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Exclusive: Elton John’s Auction Has It All: Boots to Banksy
The 900 items from his Atlanta home include blue-chip art by Julian Schnabel and Richard Avedon, Versace dinnerware and flamboyant costumes.
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For the Lakota, Creativity Thrives Where’s There No Word for Art
A Native-run studio, the Artspace is a beacon of hope, nurturing talent amid a resurgence of Indigenous traditions.
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Seeing Noguchi Through Her Eyes
Marie Menken’s film ‘‘Visual Variations on Noguchi,’’ shot nearly 80 years ago in the sculptor’s Greenwich Village atelier, has never shown at his namesake museum — until now.
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The Beekeeper
Imagine that one of the boiler room scumbags from “The Wolf of Wall Street” bankrupted Jason Bourne’s mother. That’s more or less the starting point of “The Beekeeper,” which stars Jason Statham as a wraithlike ex-commando who metes out Old Testament vengeance against tech bros who use the latest inventions to rob people online. Statham’s character…
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Peacock’s Ted Feels Like a Recycled Toy
Even my not-quite-millennial-not-quite-Zillenial self can find the humorous irony in the ’90s-obsessed Seth MacFarlane blowing the dust off the prequel-series trend and letting his famous Bostonian foul-mouthed CG talking teddy bear, Ted, take a fuzzy stab at a “Wonder Years”-styled series set years before his breakthrough comedy movie. As if MacFarlane’s unbridled love for late…
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In AMC’s Brilliant Monsieur Spade, Even the Detectives Come Hard-Boiled
One has to admire the audacity of creators Scott Frank and Tom Fontana—imagine picking up the mantle of Sam Spade, the prototypical hard-boiled detective made famous by Dashiell Hammett’s cynical, lyrical crime novels and a once-in-a-lifetime performance from Humphrey Bogart, and retooling him not just for a new age, but a new medium: prestige television.…