The pope, a noted White Sox fan, had a graceful retort to someone shouting, "Go Cubs!" in the crowd at St. Peter's Square on Oct. 15.

“I do not call my art ‘mathematical art,’” Dr. Roelofs said in a video interview about a week later. “It’s art about mathematics. Every artist has a favorite subject, things you want to talk about.

What appeared to be a sharp V-shaped growth rebound from the first pandemic lockdown, now seems like a "W" -- these are among the myriad of letters and signs economists are using to describe the ...