10 Predictions for Life in 2026
In a world that is often full of surprises, did you expect President Trump to market a perfume as a...
To Say Goodbye to the MetroCard, We Spent a Day Riding Every Transit System That Uses It
The sun isn’t yet up in New York City. For the rest of this cold Saturday, I will be riding...
3 Years After a Toddler’s Parents Fled Kabul, a Reunion Is Still on Hold
Husna Hashemi keeps photos on her phone from the day more than three years ago when she handed her infant...
There’s Something Missing in Films About Jewish Cultural Figures
My father died two years ago, at the age of 81. But the grief only really hit me this year,...
For Some Asian Americans, There’s No Such Thing As a Casual Drink
A holiday season that fills up the calendar with office parties, events, gatherings and festivities can wear away at even...
How to Greet 2026 in New York City
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York City. The countdown to 2026...
There Is a Way Out of This Mess
In the last decades of the 1800s, horses left millions of pounds of manure on Manhattan’s streets every day. Life...
Trump Is the Jan. 6 President
It was a day that should live in infamy. Instead, it was the day President Trump’s second term began to...
How Thousands of Secret Russian Documents Were Exposed
Earlier this year, a person who had filed a complaint with the Russian government’s human rights ombudsman went online to...
One Factor Will Decide How Much You Enjoy TV Next Year
This year, long before the potential acquisition of HBO by Netflix, each of these two entities launched a hospital drama...
The Top Movies of 2025, According to Times Readers
What are the best movies of 2025? After publishing our critics’ Top 10 lists, followed by New York Times experts’...
A.I. Held Up Wall Street in 2025. Will That Continue?
At a glance, stocks are set to end 2025 pretty much where analysts expected they would. But it’s been a...
An Intense White House Response From a Single Viral Video
A 43-minute video posted online in the past week, purporting to expose extensive fraud at Somali-run child care centers in...
It’s Going to Be a Cold New Year’s Eve for Much of the U.S.
A blast of Arctic air is pouring into the eastern two-thirds of the United States, driving temperatures as much as...
Even as U.S. Targets Boats, Coast Guard Tries to Capture Drug Suspects at Sea
Long before the U.S. military began blowing up boats it suspected of smuggling drugs in strikes from the sky, the...
