Earlier this year, my mother ended her life via medical aid in dying, also known as MAID. She had A.L.S., so she was suffering in many ways, and her choice to die in this manner felt right. Probably because it felt that way, in the time leading up t
Without any advance notice, the government of Alberta last week fired all 10 directors on the board of its pension fund, Alberta Investment Management Corporationjolibet, along with its chief executive and three of his most senior employees. Then, t
Anyone with an ear tuned to the world of pop music knew the Eras Tour was going to be a big one.eightstorm It was Taylor Swift’s first tour in almost five years, the longest gap of her career. And Swift, long the biggest star in pop music, had becom
Thousands of Georgians demonstrated in front of their country’s parliament for the fifth night in a row on Monday, widening a political crisis that has set the country’s pro-Russian government against those who want closer ties with the West. At the
When lawmakers in Britain last week voted in favor of a proposal to legalize assisted dying for some terminally ill patients, it signaled a profound shift in a country that decisively rejected the idea almost a decade ago. It also underscored the gr
The government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, which had kept rebel forces at bay for more than a decade with Iranian and Russian military support, collapsed with astonishing speed on Sunday morning after an advance by opposition forces on th
Over decades, ghastly, chilling images from Syria have cemented the Assad family’s legacy of savagely oppressing the country’s population. In 1982, photos showed the pulverized central city of Hama after the regime bombed and bulldozed a Muslim Brot
When protesters started trying in 2011 to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad of Syriabalato8, they were part of a cascade of revolutions, known as the Arab Spring, that aimed to oust authoritarian leaders across the Middle East. While opposition gr
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel took the stand on Tuesday in his corruption trial for the first time since it began in 2020, raising the stakes in a divisive case that has disrupted Israel’s political life for years. Mr. Netanyahu’s test