Opinion | How Do You Handle a Wounded Putin?
The world shifted this week. Vladimir Putin showed that he knows how deeply wounded he is. He knows that his rule is under existential threat if Russia is completely humiliated…
Opinion | Stop Making Asian Americans Pay the Price for Campus Diversity
Deep down, I suspect we all know that it would be quite possible for students to get a sterling education at a university where every student was a white person…
A Doctor Burns Out: The Week in Narrated Articles
This weekend, listen to a collection of narrated articles from around The New York Times, read aloud by the reporters who wrote them. Dr. Kimberly Becher has spent eight years…
The World Cup’s Carnival Comes at a Cost
The good news is that it’s a yes from the gigantic, fire-breathing spider. It is hard, after all, to imagine a World Cup without its finest tradition: 50 tons of…
Giorgia Meloni Could Be the First Woman to Lead Italy. Not All Women Are Happy.
ROME — Being a woman, and mother, has been central to the political pitch of Giorgia Meloni, the hard-right politician who is likely to become Italy’s prime minister after elections…
Italy Votes Sunday. Here’s What You Need to Know.
ROME — Italians vote on Sunday for the first time in almost five years in national elections that will usher in a new, and polls predict, right-wing government that will…
Louise Fletcher, 88, Dies; Oscar Winner for ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’
Louise Fletcher, the imposing, steely-eyed actress who won an Academy Award for her role as the tyrannical Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” died on Friday at…
Opinion | This Threat to Democracy Is Hiding in Plain Sight
In the weeks after the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and his allies were unable to get far in their attempts to prove widespread voter fraud. There were two reasons…
Riverdale actor Ryan Grantham gets life in prison for killing his mother
The 24-year-old also plotted to kill Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, prosecutors told a Canadian court.
Hurricane Fiona: Canada braces for ‘historic, extreme event’
Florida is also on hurricane watch, as a tropical storm makes its way to the US south-east coast.