To help homeless students graduate, New Mexico tries paying them
Some of the students at Mayfield High School found it hard to believe. They were in a conference room, setting...
What ‘Hamnet’ Lost (and Gained) on the Way From Page to Screen
Chloé Zhao had always thought of Shakespeare’s tragedy “Hamlet” as a revenge play. But her understanding of the work was...
D.C. health insurance cuts could cost lives, advocates say
Medical providers and patients this week told the D.C. Council health committee that as a result of cuts to the...
Hannah Arendt Is Not Your Icon
On the evening of Dec. 4, 1975, Hannah Arendt was sitting in her living room on Riverside Drive in Manhattan...
A New York to Scotland flight got all the way across the Atlantic before an air traffic control problem forced a diversion to Ireland
A Delta Air Lines Boeing 767. Omar Havana/Getty ImagesA Transatlantic Delta flight nearly reached Edinburgh before turning around.It diverted to...
A Bursting Bubble Would Be Great for A.I.
“Bubbles are great. May the bubbles continue,” Eric Schmidt, Google’s former chief executive, recently said. For artificial intelligence to advance,...
A Gladiator Epic, Back From the Dead
During the third season of “Spartacus,” the swords-and-sandals drama that aired in the early 2010s on Starz, Ashur, the cunning...
Humiliating ICE Data Blows Up Trump’s Crackdown Excuse
Aggressive federal immigration raids touted by the Trump administration as crime-busting victories have mostly swept up people with no criminal...
What Little Victory Would You Like to Celebrate?
What good things — no matter how small — have happened in your life recently? Did you turn in a...
The Protesters and the Police Are Both the Focus and the Filmmakers
When the World Trade Organization ministerial conference went to Seattle in late 1999, so did the protesters. They hailed from...
