Animation Hasn’t Been the Same Since ‘Toy Story’
There are so many ways of measuring the success of “Toy Story” that you can take your pick. The box...
‘Zodiac Killer Project’: Hooked on True Crime
True-crime documentaries, especially the kind that pop up regularly on streaming services, are defined by their tropes as much as...
Pop Culture Got Stale. Counterculture Went Right-Wing.
Once upon a time in Canada, a weird little subculture was born. In the early 1990s, a couple of Quebec...
Ann Packer Welcomes an Argument, Even With Oprah
It was the biggest moment of Ann Packer’s career, and Oprah Winfrey was on an exercise bike. She pedaled away...
America Is Setting a Trap for Itself
In Washington, a decade of rancorous polarization just gave us the longest ever government shutdown. But one belief has endured...
Chocolate Grows Up in the Land of Its Birth: the Amazon
The Amazon rainforest, origin of the cacao bean, is giving life to a nascent craft chocolate movement in Brazil. Global...
Trump’s All-but-Forgotten Border Wall Reaches an Angry Laredo, Texas
Roque Haynes aimed his appeal directly at the mayor of Laredo last Friday as the border city in South Texas...
A Gay Woman Becomes New York’s Lutheran Bishop
Good morning. It’s Friday. We’ll meet the new Lutheran bishop of New York, the first woman and the first openly...
6 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Who can say if it’s been changed for the better? ‘Wicked: For Good’ Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande return as...
Why ‘Surveillance Pricing’ Strikes a Nerve
If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product, as the refrain goes. In other words, many social...
Who Is ‘More MAGA Than JD Vance’? 2 Conservatives on Marjorie Taylor Greene, Trump and the G.O.P.
Is there a civil war in the Republican Party? In a written online conversation, the Times Opinion editor John Guida...
Why the Rings of Saturn Seem as if They’re About to Disappear
If you head into your backyard this weekend and set up your telescope, the giant planet Saturn will be there...
How 2 New Songs Made Their Way Into ‘Wicked: For Good’
As the composer Stephen Schwartz was working on the 2003 stage musical “Wicked,” one of the stars, Kristin Chenoweth, repeatedly...
What Problem in Your Community Would You Want to Address?
Do you ever get angry or frustrated by a problem in your hometown that no one seems to do anything...
After a Major Red Carpet Moment, What’s Next?
A week ago, Gabriele Semeraro was a designer working largely behind the scenes. Now, after making a dress for a...
