The Wall Street Journal
The Daring Escape That Almost Failed
Venezuelan Nobel winner was lost in dangerous waters before perilous rescue
5 min |
December 13, 2025
The Wall Street Journal
Local Spies with Lethal Gear: How Israel and Ukraine Reinvented Covert Action
A potent new fusion of old-style human spycraft with cutting-edge technology is having a big impact on high-stakes conflicts.
9 min |
December 13, 2025
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The Hot Toy This Holiday Season Was Made by an Unknown Startup
The Nex Playground is topping Amazon charts thanks to a gutsy strategy decision
6 min |
December 13, 2025
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EXCHANGE Museum Threats Move From Vandals to Thieves
Museums spent the past few years sinking resources into outsmarting climate change activists who sloshed tomato soup, cake icing and other foodstuffs all over iconic masterpieces to get attention.
4 min |
December 13, 2025
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The Big Fight Over a 'Fish Disco' At a British Power Plant
Nuclear station is trying to frighten fish, but DJing for marine life is a nightmare
4 min |
December 13, 2025
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Goodbye to All That Dullness: 2026's Ins and Outs
Expect a big year for early 20th century styles like Vienna Secessionist and Art Deco—elements of which are reflected in this Parisian apartment by Rodolphe Parente.
2 min |
December 13, 2025
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The Master of the Toughest Management Job
We follow the executive chef at New York's Mandarin Oriental as he keeps a big staff humming for the holidays
5 min |
December 13, 2025
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Who Read What in 2025
Anthony Kennedy, Fab 5 Freddy, Elise Stefanik, Dan Wang, Whitney Wolfe Herd and dozens of other avid readers name the books that earned their time and what they learned from them.
7 min |
December 13, 2025
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Trump Digs In on Revamp of Golf Courses
President wants to play a central role in redeveloping courses in Washington, D.C.
4 min |
December 13, 2025
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Saks Stylist Is Accused of $400,000 Scam
'Fashion Whisperer' outfitted Boston's socialites with luxury merchandise for years
4 min |
December 13, 2025
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U.S. Sends in More Firepower To Turn Up Heat on Venezuela
The U.S. military is moving more weapons and units into the Caribbean that give President Trump powerful new options to escalate his pressure campaign on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and potentially bring him down.
3 min |
December 13, 2025
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The Climate Crisis Clashed with Affordability, And Affordability Won
Politicians and CEOs are muting their climate alarms. The good news is, emissions are likely to decline anyway.
5 min |
December 13, 2025
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Why Interior Designer Bobby Berk Sets His Alarm For 5:47 a.m.
Berk is the host of a new HGTV show that helps homeowners sell their unusual collections to pay for home renovations.
4 min |
December 13, 2025
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Families, Friends and Little Platoons
HOWARD A. HUSOCK’S “The Projects” (NYU, 240 pages, $29.95), a history of public housing in America, is largely a story of failure.
4 min |
December 13, 2025
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The Israeli Case for Optimism About America
The Israeli ambassador has had a tough morning.
8 min |
December 13, 2025
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Fed Officials Diverge Over Inflation Risks
Public comments underscore why recent meeting was so contentious
2 min |
December 13, 2025
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GOP Relives Healthcare Nightmare
Repealing or replacing the ACA has vexed the party for a decade
3 min |
December 13, 2025
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After Kicking Heroin, She Became a Well-Known Chef
The Australian-born restaurateur favored local ingredients and made peach-and-tomato ice cream.
4 min |
December 13, 2025
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Why I Grieve America's Retreat from Europe
For those of my generation on the continent, the estrangement from the U.S. feels like the death of a beloved relative—but it may not be as final.
5 min |
December 13, 2025
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Is Veuve Clicquot Really Worth It?
Clearly a taste test was in order: Veuve Clicquot vs. less-famous Champagnes in the same price range.
3 min |
December 13, 2025
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A Cinematic Revolution at 100
AN UNSHAKABLE MONUMENT in the history of world cinema, Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin” opened 100 years ago this December, at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
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December 13, 2025
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What Made the World Go 'Round
NOW HERE IS a book. It instructs and provokes and entertains. Even its mistakes are worthwhile. The secret of “The History of Money” is in the subtitle: “a story of humanity.”
5 min |
December 13, 2025
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Not a Corporate Drone in Sight!
How to style men's suits in cool, modern, decidedly relaxed ways this holiday season—and into 2026
2 min |
December 13, 2025
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All-In Outdoors
'All-inclusive' vacations might conjure poolside cocktails, but some resorts now fold a different amenity into their rates: adventure
3 min |
December 13, 2025
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Lillie O'Brien
Londoners flock to this jam-maker's shop. Her neighborhood shopping tips are tops.
3 min |
December 13, 2025
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Army Changes Its Look in Pacific
U.S. rethinks its tools and tactics as it prepares for conflict with China
5 min |
December 13, 2025
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Trump: Warsh, Hassett Top List For Fed
President says in a WSJ interview that he expects to be consulted on rates
3 min |
December 13, 2025
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Off the Battlefield, Another Fight
WE TEND TO think of war as a matter of battles, won by skill or heroism. These attributes play important roles, of course, but as Phillips Payson O'Brien shows us, what really decides conflicts, at least epic ones like the two world wars, are logistics, productive power and ultimately-the size of the respective economic bases.
4 min |
December 13, 2025
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Seeking an Unrecoverable Past
ON NOV. 25, 1936, a young Oxford professor delivered a lecture to the British Academy in London about the Old English epic “Beowulf.”
5 min |
December 13, 2025
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The Authors We Lost In 2025
ONE THING TO be said in favor of the Grim Reaper: His taste in literature is pretty sound.
4 min |