3 Nuclear Superpowers, Rather Than 2, Usher In a New Strategic Era
WASHINGTON — On the Chinese coast, just 135 miles from Taiwan, Beijing is preparing to start a new reactor the Pentagon sees as delivering fuel for a vast expansion of…
Opinion | Why Is Democracy Under Such Stress Now?
In an April 2021 paper, four scholars, Samuel Wang of Princeton, Jonathan Cervas of Carnegie Mellon, Bernard Grofman of the University of California-Irvine and Keena Lipsitz of Queens College, address…
Supreme Court to Decide Availability of Abortion Pill as Appeal Moves Forward
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is expected on Wednesday to decide the fate of a crucial abortion pill that is used in more than half of abortions across the United…
The Artist Mark Bradford Is Finally Ready to Go There
There’s probably no way, in a town as basketball crazy as Los Angeles, for a six-foot preteen Black boy to avoid unwanted attention. When the artist Mark Bradford turned 12…
Opinion | How the Oklahoma City Bombing Case (and the O.J. Simpson Case) Shaped Merrick Garland
The pattern was set for the rest of the investigation — and the rest of Mr. Garland’s career: painstaking work behind the scenes and extreme rhetorical restraint in public. A…
Opinion | Lots of Americans Are Losing Their Religion. Have You?
In their forthcoming book, “Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society,” the sociologists Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman and Ryan Cragun describe a change in the built environment of St. Louis that…
What Happens Next in the Leaked Documents Case
WASHINGTON — Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Air National Guardsman accused of releasing classified material on a social media site, will return to court on Wednesday for a pretrial detention hearing…
What to Know About the $787.5 Million Fox News-Dominion Settlement
Fox News’s agreement with Dominion Voting Systems on Tuesday abruptly resolved a lawsuit over how the network amplified conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, which devastated Dominion’s reputation and…
The Secret to Ordering the Best Thing on the Menu
Restaurant meals have always been celebration meals for me, but a celebration doesn’t have to mean a birthday. When I was a graduate student, before big exam days, I would…
For Progressive Democrats, New Momentum Clashes With Old Debates
Progressive victories in Wisconsin and Chicago have injected new momentum into the most liberal wing of the Democratic Party. But those recent electoral successes are masking deeper internal tensions over the role…