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Inside the Evolving World of Cybersecurity: What You Need to Know
A few years ago, if you had asked me about cybersecurity, I might have shrugged it off as something only IT professionals needed to worry about. But today, the world of cybersecurity is something everyone should have on their radar. Why? Because as our lives become more entwined with technology, the need to protect our…
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Erdogan Wants Turkey to Have More Babies. Few Parents Are Listening.
Using cash grants and subsidized loans, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is trying to increase the birthrate. It’s not working.
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Runoff in Peru Offers Two Starkly Differing Visions for the Nation
The presidential election pits Keiko Fujimori, a conservative, against Roberto Sánchez, a leftist, after a crisis marked by delays and protests.
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How Birding Apps Are Boosting Tourism in the World’s Top Bird Destination
Colombia is home to the most species of birds known to ornithologists. Merlin, an app, is helping to build an “avian tourism” industry there.
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In Iraqi Desert, Two Israeli Outposts Were Kept Secret for Months
Israel spent over a year preparing a covert site in Iraq for its operations against Iran, regional officials say. Iraqi officials later confirmed the existence of a second base.
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W.H.O. Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency
Just a day after the announcement, cases were confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. There is no approved vaccine for this species of Ebola.
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Cannes 2026: John Lennon: The Last Interview, La Libertad Doble
The afternoon of the day he was killed in 1980, John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, sat for a radio interview at their apartment in the Dakota in New York. The ostensible subject was their new album, Double Fantasy, but the conversation was expansive. It included reflections on how they met, their artistic temperaments,…
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Cannes 2026: Paper Tiger, Sheep in the Box
There’s a rot in the foundation of the American Dream in James Gray’s very good “Paper Tiger,” a return to familiar territory that echoes his early films like “The Yards” and “We Own the Night” but with an even stronger current of doomed melancholy. The waters that flow through this section of 1986 New York…
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Cannes 2026: The Beloved, A Woman’s Life, Gentle Monster
Bad parents is the theme of this Cannes dispatch, which features three films in competition. Each work is also from an accomplished director, which makes a couple of the misses in this write-up all the more incomprehensible because, on paper, these should have been fairly strong titles. Instead, the competition at Cannes appears to be…
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NextEra Energy Said to Be in Talks to Acquire Dominion, Creating a Utility Giant
A deal, involving the utilities in Florida and Virginia, would come as demand for power is soaring, largely because of the rapid growth of A.I. data centers.