The stalled transition is also a test for the presidents party. Never-Trump Republicans had hoped the president would be dealt a stinging electoral rebuke, forcing a reckoning among accommodationist party grandees. That did not happen. Down-ballot Re...
Rabbi Lord Sacks, chief rabbi, broadcaster and moral philosopher, died on November 7th, aged 72. Every morning he could, Jonathan Sacks pulled on his tracksuit and went out jogging. He was not called the rapid rabbi for nothing. Jogging, as his desk-...
United States 美国版块 The White House 白宫 To the bitter end 奋战到底 President Donald Trumps refusal to concede is harming America 总统唐纳德特朗福拒不承认败选,美国危矣 Stop the steal has become the anthem of outraged...
Trying desperately to free art from the dead weight of the real world, he later wrote, I took refuge in the form of the square. Malevich painted many squares of different colours, but Black Square is the one people remember. Unveiled against the back...
The myth of Orpheus, who descends into the blackness of the underworld to bring his dead wife, Eurydice, back to the land of the living, has inspired musicians, poets and painters. None more so, perhaps, than Samuel Palmer. Retreating from the proble...
With COVID-19 soaring in some areas, England went back into a national lockdown. Non-essential shops, pubs, restaurants, gyms and other public places will close until December 2nd, but schools and building sites remain open. A government scheme that...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治 Americas presidential election was closer than the polls had suggested. In the electoral college Joe Biden won Michigan and Wisconsin, two states that helped hand victory to Donald Trump in 2016;...
The latest attempt to plumb these depths comes from Anish Kapoor, a British- Indian artist whose work questions notions of perception. He has co-opted a revolutionary black material which, he hopes, will break completely new ground. Im really investe...
If the legal route was barred by injunctions or contempt of court, he made his cause a moral one. He ran the story over several pages under a banner headline, and week by week found a new human angle to keep it going. It became unignorable that way,...
It's Friday December 17th, I'm Natali Morris. And it's time to get loaded. Facebook went down briefly on Thursday but the site came back after the few redesigns. The site now has photo text suggestion feature, the one that we've discussed before. It...