“On the afternoon of the 26th there were violent explosions at Krakatoa, which were heard as far as Batavia. High waves first retreated, and then rolled upon both sides of the strait. During a night of pitchy darkness these horrors continued with increasing violence, augmented at midnight by electrical phenomena on a terrifying scale.”
I know I sound naive, but this wasn’t like a “normal” affair.
Each day for 50 years, the Japanese boxer Iwao Hakamada woke up unsure whether it would be his last.
In 2017, Pam Bondi was passed over as too scandal-tainted. This time, she’s the safe, acceptable fallback choice.
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Climate negotiations at COP29 ended in a deal that mostly showed how far the world is from facing climate change’s real dangers.
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Behind much social-justice discourse is a self-interested struggle for power.
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The Darién Gap was once considered impassable. Now hundreds of thousands of migrants are risking treacherous terrain, violence, hunger, and disease to travel through the jungle to the United States.
A home-improvement story
If where you live isn’t truly your home, and you have the resources to make a change, it could do wonders for your happiness.
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.