‘We Need to Be Worried’: Three University Leaders on the Fate of Higher Education in the Trump Era
It’s an eventful moment in American higher education: The Trump administration is cracking down, artificial intelligence is ramping up, varsity...
Under Trump, Immigrants Are More Fearful but Determined to Stay, Poll Finds
As the Trump administration seeks to remake the immigration system and deports tens of thousands of people, many immigrants are...
A Voyage Into the Art of Finding One’s Way at Sea
When leaving an atoll of the Marshall Islands, in the South Pacific, Alson Kelen prefers to sail after sunset. It’s...
A City Is Broke. Can a Billionaire’s Urbanist Dream Offer It a Last Chance?
Suisun City is a town of 30,000 in a neglected corner of the San Francisco Bay Area. Its two most...
Greenpeace Faces an Unusual New Legal Attack From a Pipeline Giant
The yearslong court battle over a controversial pipeline — a fight so aggressive, it’s threatening to bankrupt Greenpeace USA —...
She Has Taken 30 Years to Write a 7-Part Novel About 1 Day. It’s a Sensation.
To get to Aero, the island in the Baltic Sea where the Danish writer Solvej Balle lives, I took a...
A Torch Bearer of Italian Tradition Brings Stability to the Met Opera
“Sorry, I don’t want to bore you,” the conductor Daniele Rustioni told the musicians of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. “But...
How Much Sex, Drugs and Violence Can Be in a PG-13 Movie?
The people who give Hollywood movies their ratings must often get into the gory details. Was that too much blood...
The Most Impactful Political Handbag Since Mrs. Thatcher’s
It’s the biggest political handbag since Margaret Thatcher entered 10 Downing Street with her boxy Launer London purse — in...
‘25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ Review: A Delightful Competition
A tender, joyous, bittersweet and very, very funny tribute to kids obsessed with words, the Off Broadway revival of “The...
A 50-Year Friendship, Recorded in Music
George Benjamin’s “Divisions,” a new piano work for four hands, was meant to have its North American premiere last week...
Musk Doesn’t Need $1 Trillion. Does He Even Want It?
If it is a coincidence, it is an era-defining one that the president of the United States is in competition...
Where, oh Where, Will the First Female President Come From?
Did you notice that when we went to the polls this month, voters in New Jersey and Virginia elected female...
A Little Corner of Estonia in Manhattan
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll look at the unveiling of a street sign for an Estonian diplomat who served...
Inside the American-Run Base Helping Plan the Future of Gaza
In a grungy industrial park in southern Israel, a massive, repurposed cargo warehouse is humming with hundreds of American and...
