The Mini Crossword: Friday, January 3, 2025

With four fires raging, tens of thousands have evacuated and others are confronting the precarity of where they live.

Words and phrases came from nowhere; I rarely had any sense of what they meant or to what context they belonged.

The talk-show host Yinon Magal is at the center of a campaign to protect the Prime Minister and destroy the opposition.

The reportage that thrived in the late twenty-tens cannot break through on today’s volatile Internet, where information is misinformation and victims are offenders.

A violent act on New Year’s Day allegedly committed by a tourist highlights rising tensions between the island and the mainland United States.

A group of sociologists found that few Russians were steadfast supporters of the war. Most had something more complicated to say.

When prehistoric predators abounded, the ability to perceive harm helped our ancestors survive. Some researchers wonder whether it fuels our greatest fights today.

The Colorado congresswoman’s inflammatory rhetoric has made her a national symbol of the Trumpist far right. She presents a different image closer to home.

Often, it’s our most obviously necessary tasks that feel the most impossible.