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How Kate Beaton Paid Off Her Student Loans

“Ducks,” the Canadian cartoonist’s new graphic memoir, chronicles two years she spent working in the Athabasca oil sands, in northeastern Alberta.
Our Columnists

As Gas Prices Dip, There’s Finally Some Encouraging News on Inflation

Barring an escalation of the war in Ukraine or a deadlier new coronavirus variant, the rate at which prices are rising appears to have peaked.
Our Columnists

The Case for an Immediate Energy Embargo on Russia

An aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky argues that halting the purchase of oil and gas is the surest way to stop Vladimir Putin’s military machine.
Dispatch

Remote, Forbidding, and Infected: The Coronavirus Is Spreading in the Russian Arctic

The growth rate of new infections in Russia is the second highest in the world, behind that of the United States.
Our Columnists

Trump’s Baffling Plan to Pillage Syria’s Oil

American troops are being kept in the country to commit what legal experts identify as a potential crime.
News Desk

An Uncommon Victory for an Indigenous Tribe in the Amazon

Advocates from ethnic minorities—particularly indigenous people—face a high risk of violent attack from supporters of mining, logging, and other industries.
Dept. of Invention

The Artificial Leaf

Letter from Libya

King of Kings

Letter from Astana

Nowheresville

Onward and Upward with the Arts

Poles Apart

The Financial Page

Pumped Up?

The Political Scene

As the World Burns

Letter from India

The Laughing Guru

Letter from Tehran

The Rationalist

Comment

What’s the Big Idea?

A Reporter at Large

Fidel’s Heir

Letter from Moscow

Kremlin, Inc.

The Financial Page

Pumped Up

Comment

War and Words

The Financial Page

All the Oil in China?