Participatory budgeting, which allows residents to have a say in government spending, continues to grow around the world. The results are an innovative counter to civic apathy and disengagement from party politics.
After a lightning military advance in northeastern Syria, Damascus is demanding that the Kurdish-led SDF, a key U.S. ally in the fight against ISIS, agree to integrate into the national army. The United States has thrown its support behind a unified Syria.
Voters still broadly favor securing the southern border, and they give President Trump credit for that. But 6 in 10 now disapprove of the president’s handling of immigration.
Jack Smith said publicly for the first time he had enough evidence to show President Trump broke the law in trying to overturn 2020 election results.
In Gaza, winter has been an added hardship for displaced Palestinians, particularly the tens of thousands living in tents and pushed alongside the windy and frigid coast. Tents are too few, and too flimsy.
Sophie Pinkham’s “The Oak and the Larch” traces how Russian history and literature have shaped – and been shaped by – its deep forests.
