In a Chinese Leader’s Death, Mourning for a More Hopeful Time
In 1998, Zhu Rongji, then China’s premier, told the staff of an investigative news program that he was a devoted...
How a Covid-Era Scramble Transformed Supreme Court Arguments
On about 40 mornings each year, the justices take their seats behind the Supreme Court’s majestic mahogany bench to hear...
Oil, Hunters and Dr. Phil: How a Longshot Project Is Shaking Up Greenland
In one of the most remote towns on earth, on the frozen crust of Greenland’s east coast, the American oilman...
How Thanksgiving Became Political: Francesca Hong’s Tweets Explained
For months, polls indicated that Francesca Hong, a chef and a democratic socialist state lawmaker, was the clear front-runner in...
From Bromance at First Sight to Lakers Owners
It started socially, as business relationships between millionaires and billionaires tend to do. And, in the case of Bob Iger...
What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All
On Feb. 25, Siobhan Kirchstein received an official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles instructing her to surrender her...
‘The Rivals of Amziah King’ Review: The Banjos and the Bees
One of the most rollicking and absurd opening sequences in a film this summer can be found in “The Rivals...
A Print Maestro With a Birdwatcher’s Eye and a Socialist Soul
I’ve noticed that whenever the Whitney Museum of American Art starts hanging the conceptual contrivances of its Biennial upstairs, a...
‘Fast’ Review: She’s Got Good Traction
The independent filmmaker Rob Tregenza loves a moving vehicle onscreen, more for how it embodies one person’s drive than out...
A Patient’s Final Breath in a Congolese Ebola Ward
On one side of the Ebola ward, a woman visiting her ailing husband spoke to him through a plexiglass window....
L’Rain Asks if ‘Experimental’ Music Can Be Far-Reaching
Taja Cheek has spent her career making music that resists easy explanation. The singer-songwriter known as L’Rain builds songs from...
My Son’s Racist Views Are Destroying Our Family
My son has somehow — probably from spending too much time on the wrong websites — become a racist. We...
‘American Doctor’ Review: Going to Gaza to Help, in Any Way They Can
At the start of “American Doctor,” one of the three main subjects, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, argues with the director, Poh...
‘The Brink of War’ Review: When the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Came Together
The movie begins with a stark image: Ronald Reagan (Jeff Daniels), shot from behind, in a light overcoat, looking out...
Putin Visits Islands Seized from Japan in World War II, Angering Tokyo
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday visited islands seized from Japan at the end of World War II...
