Rising Progressive Star Shakes Up Race for Los Angeles Mayor
Nithya Raman, a rising star among West Coast progressives and a Los Angeles City Council member, announced on Saturday that...
Now We Know What All Those People Got From Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein, as has become clear again with the latest Department of Justice file dump, will go down in history...
This Is Just Who Trump Is
What motivates President Trump? Not what motivates Trumpism, whatever that is. Not what motivates his MAGA supporters. Not what motivates...
What to Know About the Cold Snap in New York This Weekend
Snow from the major storm that blew through New York two weekends ago is still stubbornly piled up on city...
Saudis Announce New Investments in Syria, a Sign of Deepening Ties
Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday sweeping investments in Syria’s telecommunications, energy, and aviation sectors, the latest sign of a deepening...
Roland Huntford, Lore-Debunking Historian of Polar Exploration, Dies at 98
Roland Huntford, a journalist and historian who wrote about the world’s polar extremities and the men who explored them, including...
The Real Threat Isn’t Trump. It’s the MAGA Apparatus.
Can President Trump really nationalize elections? This week at the round table for “The Opinions,” the Times Opinion national politics...
Peter Attia, the Epstein Files and the Lie Propping Up Big Wellness
A promise of health influencers who operate outside mainstream medicine is that they are unsullied by Big Government, Big Pharma...
A Mosque Bombing Undercuts Pakistan’s Bid for Security
In recent years, Pakistan has arrested, jailed or killed dozens of Islamic State militants along its border with Afghanistan. It...
5 Weeks Alone on an Island, With a Rifle and a License to Kill
ERADICATION: A Fable, by Jonathan Miles In the early aughts, teams of sharpshooters were dispatched in helicopters to eliminate a...
5 Sleep Habits to Steal From Winter Olympians
Tess Johnson has always had trouble sleeping the night before a competition. The 25-year-old, who will be representing Team U.S.A....
Meet the Rubinsteins. They’re Messy, but They’re Mensches.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT US, by Allegra Goodman Allegra Goodman’s 11th book, “This Is Not About Us,” is about our...
Trump Reverts to Diplomacy With Iran, but the Road Is Narrow
Even with President Trump’s “beautiful armada” off its shores, Iran has once again resorted to a familiar strategy: kicking the...
Lessons for America From Asia
When I began to cover Taiwan in the 1980s for The New York Times, it was a dictatorship under martial...
They Used to Rule the West. Now They’re Dying.
It is a familiar conundrum by now. Yet in the opening weeks of 2026 — as President Trump kidnapped a...
