9 Art Shows to Catch Before They Close This Summer
‘Marcel Duchamp’ Through Aug. 22 at the Museum of Modern Art, Manhattan; moma.org. The critic Holland Cotter writes that Marcel...
At Hudson Valley Shakespeare, a ‘King Lear’ Worth Traveling For
Talk to anyone who has ever been to Hudson Valley Shakespeare and you’ll probably hear first about the weather. That’s...
Duchamp Gave Up Art for Chess. At MoMA, He Inspires a New Gambit.
Marcel Duchamp, a founder of the Dada movement, is probably the first artist who improved his reputation when he announced...
ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.
In the span of a week, federal immigration enforcement agents took the lives of Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 25-year-old Colombian...
Europe Finds It Hard to Break Up With American and Chinese Technology
The French government said this year that it would replace Zoom and other American videoconference software with a French-developed alternative....
Is This Really the End of Reading?
Few things are more intuitive about the smartphone era than the fact that devices have torpedoed our interest in reading...
At This Opera Festival, He’s No Longer Another Artist. He’s the Boss.
Ted Huffman wove through the corridors of the Théâtre de l’Archevêché, an outdoor opera house and the central theater of...
A Spectacular Theodore Roosevelt Library Deep in the Badlands
You’d be hard-pressed not to like the new $450 million Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. It’s an easy charmer and a...
The Long-Running, Never-Ending Argument Over What Counts as ‘America’
What is an American? Not in some social-historical sense. Just practically: Are there around 350 million Americans or more than...
‘American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez’ Review: A Rebel With a Cause
The biographical documentary “American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez” turns a spotlight on the career of a stage and...
The Odyssey, by Donald Trump
Bret Stephens: Hi, Frank. We seem to be sliding back into war with Iran. Do you see any good outcome?...
A 59-Year-Old Hunger Striker Joins a Gen Z Protest Movement in India
For 19 days, Sonam Wangchuk, a prominent Indian activist, has been on a hunger strike in New Delhi, adding momentum...
Britain Nationalizes Its Last Major Steel Mill
The British government fully took over the country’s last major crude steel production facility on Thursday, ending a long-running saga...
Global Opinion Shifts Toward Favoring China Over the U.S., Poll Finds
People in many countries around the world now view China more positively than they do the United States, a new...
The F.D.A. Approves a New Pill to Slash Cholesterol Levels
The Food and Drug Administration approved a daily pill on Thursday that can lower cholesterol levels far below what can...
