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Embroidery has a long history in the Americas – a profession once reserved for men, later foisted onto women as a symbol of domesticity. But in recent decades, women have reclaimed the craft as a tool for peaceful, powerful protest, even amid the pandemic. Just this week, after Mexico City metro cars crashed when an overpass collapsed, embroidery in honor of victims appeared online. Punctuated by orange and green lines, the same colors as the metro, it read, “corruption kills.” Other artists use needlework to call attention to femicide, the ongoing legacy of colonization, or to encourag...

As President Joe Biden takes on a pair of foreign policy challenges that have bedeviled the United States for two decades – Afghanistan and North Korea – he is adopting a policy with a long history: realpolitik. Not the 19th-century German version, which came to imply hard-nosed pursuit of national interests regardless of moral concerns. But a new iteration, being realistic about the limits to Washington’s unilateral power in today’s world. Why We Wrote This The Biden administration is updating the old foreign policy doctrine of realpolitik by acknowledging the reality of limits on U....

New York A giant yellow-and-black pumpkin cuts a striking contrast with the white Victorian greenhouse at the New York Botanical Garden. A mother carries her child on her back, playing peekaboo with the reflective surface as her daughter squeals in delight.  That sense of childlike joy pervades “Kusama: Cosmic Nature,” an exhibition by Yayoi Kusama. The Japanese contemporary artist, who spent her childhood among the fields of her family’s seed nursery in Japan, comes full circle in this introspection on nature. Ms. Kusama, whose artistic journey began in her early teens, ...

Republican lawmakers are moving ahead to tighten voting laws, making mail-in voting harder in several GOP-led states. Rebukes and statements from major corporations have done little so far to derail the proposals.