Andy Burnham set to take charge as U.K. prime minister
LONDON — Andy Burnham, the longtime mayor of Greater Manchester, Britain’s second largest urban area, will on Monday become Britain’s...
Small-town fight over corruption, abuse may haunt GOP candidate for Arizona governor
Momentum was growing in 2013 to crack down on a polygamist religious group accused of sexually abusing girls in rural...
Silicon Valley is embracing armed robots. Washington is making room.
Looking for his next business, San Francisco entrepreneur Sankaet Pathak sought an idea that might change the future. He settled...
Why these three books have kept group chats going for months
Emma Rosenblum is the author of “Bad Summer People” and “Mean Moms.” I was recently standing with a group of...
These three memoirs are chock-full of disasters. I can’t resist.
Emma Rosenblum is the author of “Bad Summer People” and “Mean Moms.” I was recently standing with a group of...
Stop glamorizing cigarettes
Regarding the July 15 Style article “The reignited allure of cigarettes”: The renewed glamorization of cigarettes is not harmless nostalgia....
The interview that exposed academia’s cluelessness
It can’t have been fun for the anthropologists when their discipline was singled out as a hive of political groupthink....
Barrett’s critics from the right have got her wrong
It isn’t surprising that a Supreme Court justice who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, end affirmative action in college...
Yale caught between Trump administration pressure and a campus that wants to fight
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The Trump administration’s battle with American higher education is heating up at Yale University, with students,...
Data centers have united Americans of both parties in a shared hatred
Kyle Schmidt ticked through what makes him irate about the massive Google data center slated for construction about a mile...
Castle-hopping in the dreamy Bavarian Alps
Like those of so many travelers, my mental images of Germany — cute villages, dirndls and lederhosen, and fairy-tale castles...
‘Soft decluttering’ is a kinder, gentler way to deal with your stuff
When we talk about decluttering and organizing, large-scale undertakings such as cleaning out the garage or color-coding a closet spring...
The World Cup’s quiet winner: Short-term rentals
Spain or Argentina will win the FIFA World Cup on Sunday, but another victor from the tournament is short-term rentals....
Red wolves, once nearly wiped out, had a spring baby boom in North Carolina
Nearly two dozen red wolf pups were born in the wild this spring in eastern North Carolina, giving a remarkable...
The U.S. saw the first ‘China Shock.’ Now the world gets the sequel.
Twenty-five years ago, low-cost Chinese goods flooded the U.S. market, contributing to the loss of 3 million factory jobs and...
