A Troubling Trump Pardon and a Link to the Kushners
Even amid the uproar over President Donald J. Trump’s freewheeling use of his pardon powers at the end of his term, one commutation stood out. Jonathan Braun of New York…
Members of Congress Head for the Exits, Many Citing Dysfunction
Eleven are running for the Senate. Five for state or local office. One for president of the United States. Another is resigning to become a university president. And more and…
3 Takeaways From the Investigation Into Trump’s Pardon of Jonathan Braun
Two days after Donald J. Trump left the White House, The New York Times published a story about how one of his last acts as president had been to commute…
Girls Thrive in Many Sports. Now They’re Coming for Football, Too.
Honesty Butler was not planning to go to college, let alone leave her home state of New York. She loved art class, but hated math and history. Art school was…
What Today’s Migrant Crisis Looks Like to a Holocaust Refugee
Even with New York’s complicated history as a port for new arrivals, the photographs this summer of more than a hundred migrants sleeping shoulder to shoulder on the sidewalk outside…
Opinion | Powerful Forces Are Fracking Our Attention. We Can Fight Back.
The lament is as old as education itself: The students aren’t paying attention. But today, the problem of flighty or fragmented attention has reached truly catastrophic proportions. High school and…
Opinion | Relax, Electric Vehicles Really Are the Best Choice for the Climate
It has been a bumpy few weeks for carmakers who sell electric vehicles, which are moving more slowly off the lot than they were earlier this year. What’s going on?…
Cockroaches and Mountains of Trash Plague Acapulco After Hurricane
Below the shattered windows of the high-rise hotels in downtown Acapulco, people walk alongside towering hills of garbage bags filled with rotting food and debris, from mattresses to Christmas decorations.…
Joan Jara, Who Found Justice for Husband Slain After Coup, Dies at 96
Joan Jara, a British-born dancer and instructor who dedicated herself to finding justice for her husband, Victor Jara, a popular Chilean folk singer and songwriter who was killed during the…
What Is COP28? And Other Questions About the Big U.N. Climate Summit
Two facts loom over United Nations climate talks that begin Nov. 30 in Dubai: the planet is careening toward climate disaster, and governments are acting too slowly to avert the…