Opinion | This Is Why Jesus Wept
Of all the qualities that the New Testament ascribes to God, compassion is among the most shocking. Compassion has nothing to do with power, with immortality or with immutability, which…
How to Create a Black Hole Out of Thin Air
How many ways are there to leave this universe? Perhaps the best known exit entails the death of a star. In 1939 the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his student…
An Abandoned Cemetery Highlights a Painful Colonial Episode for France
Nestled amid the vineyards in a picturesque region of southwestern France known for its sweet wines and goat cheeses is a fenced-off parcel of thorny, empty land, mostly avoided by…
Are These Topics Too Adult for the Youngest Readers? Take a Look.
A picture book about a same-sex penguin couple at the Central Park Zoo was made inaccessible to young students in a Florida school district. The history of the Gay Pride…
In the ‘Christmas City,’ Yuletide Weddings Are the Main Event
Ms. Marshall, 48, a private practice nurse practitioner, was excited to show off the Christmas town to the couples’ families. “It’s like you’re stuck in a snow globe,” she said.…
Opinion | I Am Gaza City’s Mayor. Our Lives and Culture Are in Rubble.
As a teenager in the 1980s, I watched the construction of the intricately designed Rashad al-Shawa Cultural Center in Gaza City, named after one of Gaza’s greatest public figures, and…
Opinion | Let’s Rescue Book Lovers From This Online Hellscape
If you have not kept up with the latest scandal in the world of young adult publishing, it is a doozy. It involves a debut author with a lot of…
Opinion | We’re Thinking About Pain All Wrong
For many years I’ve written about people suffering intractable pain, and how their agony and increased risk of suicide and death has been ignored in the rush to end the…
Thousands join huge migrant caravan in Mexico ahead of Blinken visit
The group set off just days before US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Mexico City.
A Day to Play
My colleagues and I thought today would be a good day to remind you of some recent Times games — as well as an all-time classic — that you can…