The Religious Right’s Hidden Sway as Japan Trails Allies on Gay Rights
To millions of Japanese, the Shinto faith is not so much a spiritual practice as a cultural one. Every January, crowds gather at shrines to pray for good fortune for…
For Gen Z, Playing an Influencer on TikTok Comes Naturally
Rachel Aaron, a 24-year-old who works in public relations in New York, recently dressed up for a work event at Bloomingdale’s. In the era of “get ready with me” videos…
They Watched Jordan Neely Die. Did They Have a Duty to Intervene?
As Jordan Neely struggled to free himself from a chokehold in the New York City subway earlier this month, there were the passengers who pinned him down and the passengers…
Why Prosecutors Waited Before They Charged Daniel Penny
The killing of a 30-year-old homeless Black man by a white rider on a New York City subway car has prompted intense debate over the response by the police and…
How Do You Actually Help a Suicidal Teen?
As he talked, more children were waiting at the hospital’s Psychiatric Emergency Services, six floors below. The PES (pronounced Pez) is the first stop when children and adolescents come to…
Opinion | Death and the City
“Some have hypothesized that the rise in homicide rates is specifically a result of the June 2020 protests,” Chalfin and MacDonald wrote, but “theories about the role of the protests…
Opinion | How to Use the Debt Ceiling to Inflict Cruelty on the Poor
Seen from outside Washington, the debt ceiling battle might seem like an abstract argument between the political parties over federal spending and deficits. But for millions of low-income Americans who…
Opinion | The Courts Should Be More Political, Not Less
The North Carolina gerrymandering decision made that scandal impossible to ignore: What else but rank partisan allegiance could account for such an abrupt switch on a question that determined political…
The Speaker Gets His Chance to Go Toe-to-Toe With the President
Speaker Kevin McCarthy got what he wanted out of Tuesday’s debt limit talks at the White House — the chance to go one-on-one against President Biden. The speaker, who believes…
As China Looms Over Taiwan’s Presidential Race, the Opposition Picks a Moderate
Once a dominant political force, Taiwan’s main opposition party lost the last two presidential elections in large part because it has promoted closer ties with China. Now, faced with voters…