Baby Who Had Traveled Overseas Is City’s First Measles Case of Year
Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll look at measles outbreaks and concerns about traveling to places where cases have been...
Looking Down at This Winter’s Big Freeze
For much of North America, the last month has felt less like a season and more like a siege. From...
Looking at ‘The Goldfinch,’ and Thinking About Extinction
The British historian, art critic and TV presenter Simon Schama counts among his many fascinations the paintings of Rembrandt, the...
Should Schools Limit the Number of A’s That Teachers Can Give?
Do you feel that some teachers give too many A’s? Is grade inflation a problem in your school? On the...
How to Get From ‘Derry Girls’ to ‘Heaven’: Via Comedic Mystery
Lisa McGee tells it like a ghost story. The “Derry Girls” creator was back home in Derry, Northern Ireland, when...
‘Are You Feeling the Vibe?’ At Italy’s Spread-Out Olympics, It Depends.
The name of these Games might be Milan, but fans say that it’s in mountain towns that the essence of...
Anthropic Puts $20 Million Into a Super PAC to Counter OpenAI
Silicon Valley’s dueling artificial intelligence start-ups now have dueling super PACs. Anthropic, the safety-focused A.I. company formed by former OpenAI...
NATO Remains Vital to U.S. Security, Ex-Ambassadors and Generals Say
Calling the NATO alliance “the cornerstone of United States national security” and “vital” to preserving American global interests, eight former...
Trump and the Death of Shared Morality in America
The columnist David Brooks’s 22-year tenure at The New York Times is coming to an end, and so the Conversation...
Mass Detention Gets a Lift From the Courts
There are so many twists and turns in the legal battles over immigration and detention that it’s sometimes hard to...
Improbably Famous, Then Perpetually Forgotten. Now, the Renaissance of Edmonia Lewis
“The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor,” Edmonia Lewis told The New York Times almost 150...
Immigration Officials Set to Testify Before Senate Panel
The leaders of three federal immigration agencies are set to testify at a Senate hearing on Thursday, while senators are...
Push for Body Cameras for D.H.S. Underscores Trump Administration’s Shift
As the aggressive tactics of federal officers advancing President Trump’s immigration crackdown have come under scrutiny, the use of body...
Bans on Many CBD Products Loom This Year
Millions of Americans who rely on the cannabis compound CBD to ease arthritis, anxiety, sleep problems or plain old boredom...
In Kentucky, People Blame Ford More Than Trump for Lost Factory Jobs
The electric vehicle battery factory that Ford Motor and a South Korean company opened on 1,500 acres of Kentucky farmland...
