Month: June 2023

What draws an actor to the stage? There’s the desire to be seen, sure, and a passion for storytelling. For some it feels like a calling; for others, a compulsion.…

Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. A recent CNN poll shows that 20 percent of Democrats favor Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for the party’s nomination, 8 percent want Marianne Williamson and another…

KYIV, Ukraine — Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine last year, the Ukrainian government and NATO allies have posted, then quietly deleted, three seemingly innocuous photographs from their social…

Elon Musk recently said Twitter’s advertising business was on the upswing. “Almost all advertisers have come back,” he asserted, adding that the social media company could soon become profitable. But…

“Most of our money went toward students and closing the gap in learning loss,” Ms. Newman said. Other districts have spent more relief funds on facility upgrades. Researchers at Georgetown…

The Supreme Court will soon decide the fate of race-based affirmative action in college admissions. Its ruling will be of particular interest to my class — high school juniors who…

Crisis averted; the debt ceiling has been raised. Before you turn your attention back to your summer travel plans and the challenges of inflation, let’s take stock of what these…

The Wall Street Journal dutifully reports on yet another threat to the financial and mental health of homeowners who got too deeply in debt in the runup to the financial…

College recruiters walked immigrant neighborhoods, knocking on doors or stopping people in shopping malls, selling the merits of a business-school education and adding a surprising offer: Get paid to enroll.…

For years, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has mostly relied on the same approach to deter people from sneaking into New York City’s subways without paying. As passengers trickle in, police…