Opinion | I Paid My Child $100 to Read a Book
This summer, I paid my 12-year-old daughter $100 to read a book. As far as mom maneuvers go, it was definitely last ditch and the size of the payout was…
This summer, I paid my 12-year-old daughter $100 to read a book. As far as mom maneuvers go, it was definitely last ditch and the size of the payout was…
Six years ago, Odessa, an oil town in West Texas probably best known for the high school football team that inspired “Friday Night Lights,” had all of 17 coffee or…
Vice President Kamala Harris correctly identified one of America’s biggest problems when she said that “there’s a serious housing shortage.” America’s affordable-housing crisis exacerbates wealth inequities, leads low-income parents to…
CREATION LAKE, by Rachel Kushner Rachel Kushner’s new novel, “Creation Lake,” is set in rural France, but not the rural France of guidebooks and Peter Mayle memoirs. No one rhapsodizes…
When Iria Leino, a Finnish-born painter, died at 89, the rent on her 4,000-square-foot loft in a former knitting factory in SoHo was $650 a month. Ms. Leino (pronounced LAY-no)…
Conor here: Many on the left seem eager to believe that Kamala would continue the one bright spot from the Biden administration: crackdowns from the DOJ Antitrust Division and the…
When the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022 and some of her students fled abroad, Iryna Kovaliova, a literature teacher, decided it was time to retire. “I wrote…
The image went viral as protests over the Israel-Hamas war rattled college campuses around the country last spring: two dozen or so fraternity members at the University of North Carolina…
This is Street Wars, a weekly series on the battle for space on New York’s streets and sidewalks. It’s simple, really: You’ll just need a metal barricade. Maybe some traffic…
Inside Arthur Ashe Stadium on Friday afternoon, thousands of fans cheered on an All-American third-round match between Frances Tiafoe and Ben Shelton. But as the match stretched into its fourth…