In the second MAGA Administration, the hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent will have the job of acting as a voice of reason.

In the Cold War, Stalin ordered that a winery be set up in an old gypsum mine in Bakhmut; now Russian soldiers are using the prized cuvée to flush toilets.

Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.

Air Company, a startup that has used water and carbon dioxide to make vodka and to power automobiles, taste-tests its product ...