A row erupted after Vivek Ramaswamy, Republican candidate for Ohio governor, and his wife Apoorva Ramaswamy introduced their newborn daughter Savithri in a campaign advertisement. The video showed the couple’s children meeting their new sister while Vivek kissed the baby.The advertisement focused on Ramaswamy’s commitment to Ohio families, safe communities, good schools, and giving every…

For nearly three decades the art world has been engaged in a strange cultural ritual. People stand in front of walls, stare at them with unusual seriousness and try to interpret the joke someone left behind during the night. A rat with a placard. A policeman embracing another policeman. A child reaching for a red…

US President Donald Trump said there would be no agreement with Iran unless Tehran accepts what he described as “unconditional surrender”, outlining a hardline position on the future of the Iranian leadership and the country’s political direction. Grand phrases have a way of sounding decisive in wartime. “Unconditional surrender” is one of them. It carries…