are becoming a sore spot. “Why are there vacant houses here?” asked Ashleigh Rader, a Pasadena real-estate agent with the national brokerage Compass. Rader was searching for new homes for more ...

Roll your tongue around your mouth, and you might feel a sting from a new tender spot. A tiny, unwelcome crater of pain, a red circle of fire tucked against your cheek. It feels worse with every ...

You Crosshatch the Congo, underline Berlin, point an arrow at Viet Nam and — voild — an instant rundown of the world’s trouble spots. Regular readers of the Sunday New York Times ...