This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Erwin Jacob Miciano, a 27-year-old real-estate investor and the owner of Semi Homes in South El Monte, California. It has been edited for length and clarity. I’m a dedicated dad, a committed husband, a real-estate investor, and the co-owner of Semi Homes, a real-estate company specializing […]

Dr. Raven Baxter, who was astonished earlier this year when a white homeowner tried to deny her the right to buy a condo, will be the face of a new national campaign aimed at combating housing discrimination. In May, Dr. Baxter, who is Black and is a molecular biologist and science communicator, shared her experience […]

Several years ago, two Palestinians and two Israelis decided to make a documentary about the Israeli government’s efforts to demolish homes in Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank. “Even if you know the facts and understand that Masafer Yatta is being displaced so that settlements can take over the land, it’s very different when […]

In March, Brandon Mahler took a pair of thrifted leather pants and spliced them into shorts. Holding the results, Mr. Mahler, a fashion consultant in New York, had to acknowledge that he’d crossed the line of sartorial sanity. “When are you wearing leather shorts?” Mr. Mahler said, speaking with a Hyde-like clarity about this Jekyll-esque […]

PARIS — Emmanuel Macron will not attend Thursday’s European Council meeting in Brussels as he heads to Mayotte, a French oversea territory in the Indian Ocean coping with the aftermath of a devastating tropical cyclone. Macron will be represented at the council by his German counterpart Olaf Scholz, “in accordance with established practice between France […]

What’s New Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), published Tuesday in Nature Communications, is the first confirmed instance of two stars gravitationally bound to each other so close to a black hole. Why […]

President-elect Trump continued with his trolling of Canada early Wednesday, slamming U.S. subsidies to its northern neighbor and again claiming that Canadians supposedly want to become the 51st U.S. state.  In a post on his social media platform, Trump wrote: “No one can answer why we subsidize Canada to the tune of over $100,000,000 a […]

BRUSSELS — Georgia’s outgoing president on Wednesday appealed to the European Union to press her country’s pro-Russia government to hold a new election amid a police crackdown on peaceful opposition protesters. Tens of thousands of people have filled the streets regularly in recent weeks since the governing Georgian Dream party decided to on joining the […]

MOSCOW — Russia’s security service said Wednesday that it has detained a suspect in in Moscow. The suspect was described as an Uzbek citizen recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services. Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after leveled criminal charges […]

It’s not like our families don’t appreciate us and what we do, but often a mum is the puppet master behind the scenes making everything just right out of view. Every mum will tell you that it is a never ending job, and sometimes it can feel a little thankless and almost expected, and now […]

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