Ted Anthony

On the first weekend: a vision of the nation built upon inclusivity and the tenets of liberalism — a conception of country that incorporates generations of fights for equity, for compassion, for expanding what it means to be an American.

China’s second-in-command sounded his nation’s recurring alarm against aggressive and unilateral action in global politics in an address to world leaders.

World leaders have spent the past week at the United Nations often criticizing the U.N. itself. They told each other and those who administer the planet’s most prominent global institution that most parts of the metaphorical house of nations are outdated and not in good working order.

China’s decision to bring serious firepower to bear for military drills in the waters off Taiwan this week has deep roots both in the past several weeks and the past several decades.

China’s People’s Liberation Army says it has “successfully completed” two days of military exercises in the waters off Taiwan.

They’re at it again. China and Japan are frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured and bloody history they’re still working through.

Canadian leader Mark Carney met China’s Xi Jinping this week. The two statesmen talked. Fractured relationships began to heal.

An enormous population has long been a foundational way for China to project its strength. But anxiety about managing so many mouths has always loomed.

The baseball is a curious object. One killed a man once, Ray Chapman in 1920. These days dozens are used in a single big-league game.

The United States today is home to countless stories. Together they tell us what America has been, is and could be.