December 18, 2024

The merger talks between Japan’s second- and third-largest automakers highlight the intense upheaval within the world’s auto industry.

A battle for control of the chain shows how traditional business models embraced by family owners are clashing with a more shareholder-centric approach.

Funding its war against the United States, the Taliban reaped millions from boom towns trading opium, heroin and meth. Victorious, the group crushed the trade, leaving ghost towns in its wake.

Picasso paintings. Jasper Johns ale cans. Irving Penn photos. The cosmetics heir created the model for the headline-grabbing donation that museums dream of today.

Whether it was “A Complete Unknown” with 1960s Greenwich Village or “Anora” with present-day Brooklyn, filmmakers put new frames around the city.