February 11, 2013

For months, Damascus has hunched in a defensive crouch as fighting raged in suburbs, but a rebel advance has created a new level of alarm and disorder.

After sweeping the market with the iPhone and the iPad, Apple has only one real competitor. And Samsung, unlike Apple, does think people know what they want.

In a trend that is surprising pollsters and jangling the nerves of Republicans, a majority of young people embraces President Obama’s notion that government can be a constructive force.

Perhaps the reason so many people are in the dark about deadly drone strikes is because they want to be.

President Obama signed a disaster declaration for Connecticut for the fifth time in three years, continuing a wearying loop of natural chaos and tragedy.

Chythia Hopkins’s latest piece, “This Clement World,” includes original songs and video footage that she shot during a three-week Arctic expedition.

White House officials are looking at a cut that would take the arsenal of deployed weapons to just above 1,000, compared with the current 1,700.

Brokers used to promote bad investments mainly to people trying to get rich quick, but with traditional portfolios losing value, more ordinary retirement savers are being duped.

Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey discouraged any government gift of port security equipment to the Dominican Republic, citing concern for a company run by his friend, a major campaign contributor.

In a year that seemed to tilt toward youth, the blues duo the Black Keys and the British folk-rockers Mumford & Sons took home top honors.

A watchdog group’s study pointed to cases where companies hired former agency employees to wage successful fights against the commission’s enforcement and policy efforts.

Grammy voters want popular music to have credibility, breadth and a kind of moral weight. But they are also, and always have been, tired of new complications.