NEWS The Tea Party might not be over, but it’s increasingly clear that the U.S. election last month significantly weakened the movement, which had nearly captured control of the Republican Party through a potent combination of populism and fury. Trip Gabriel reports.
As Russia’s middle class becomes a force in commerce, G.M., Ford, Volkswagen and other automakers have been expanding, or plan to expand, in the country with new factories. Andrew E. Kramer reports.
Whether he stays in Damascus or tries to flee, President Bashar al-Assad has no easy options as Syria plunges deeper into chaos. Anne Barnard and Hwaida Said report from Beirut.
How did something as innocuous as the sugary pink polio vaccine turn into a flash point between Islamic militants and Western “crusaders,” flaring into a confrontation so ugly that Pakistani teenage girls — whose only “offense” is that they are protecting children — are gunned down in the streets? Donald G. McNeil Jr. reports.
ARTS As officials plan to expand the Buddenbrookhaus, a museum devoted to Thomas Mann, the challenge is how to make an author of weighty tomes approachable to coming generations weaned on Twitter messages and status updates. Nicholas Kulish reports from Lübeck, Germany.
On stages large and small, via new plays but also (very much so) the classics, the theater in London proved time and again in 2012 that it matters. Matt Wolf writes.
SPORTS Syd Fischer, an 85-year-old ocean-racing legend in Australia, is taking yet another shot at winning the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race outright, with his hand on the helm. Christopher Clarey reports.
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