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Historians try to be precise, so it is awkward to admit that I can’t recall exactly when I first noticed the existence of an opera by Carolina Uccelli. At some...

Good morning. It’s Tuesday. James Barron is off this week. Today we’ll look at efforts to persuade Gov. Kathy Hochul to approve a modified version of New York’s decades-in-the-making congestion...

In case you haven’t heard, national parks in the United States have been busy in recent years. Record-breaking busy. But one way to enjoy the bounty of a national park...

Sunshine seems to make a strong case against daily sunscreen. When we step outside on a clear day, the sun’s ultraviolet light triggers the body to produce endorphins that lower...

While serving time in a Wisconsin prison in 2021, Darnell Price watched a golf-ball-size lump on his thigh grow as large as a football. Mr. Price pressed for a thorough...

The First Amendment was written in the 18th century with the noble and vitally important goal of ensuring robust political debate and a free press. For much of American history,...

Keir Starmer, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, nodded sympathetically as a young mother recalled, in harrowing terms, how she had watched closed-circuit television footage of the fatal stabbing of...

Liz Moore’s “The God of the Woods” opens in nostalgic territory: It’s 1975, and Barbara and Tracy are cabin mates at Camp Emerson in the Adirondacks. Tracy is 12 and...

In the opening sentence of her rage-swollen “Ask Not,” Maureen Callahan declares that her book “is not ideological or partisan.” It is, of course, both. Sometimes it is both in...

Andrew Torrey has turned the front door of his New York apartment into a teleportation device, whisking visitors off to another place and time whenever they drop by. That, at...