The ferocity of U.S. and Israeli attacks has raised questions about whether the two countries are even attempting to minimize ...

From the daily newsletter: the precarious position of higher education in Trump’s America—and in the years ahead.

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For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government.

Josh Wardle, the creator of Wordle, has a new game that aims to introduce players to the joys and agonies of the cryptic crossword.

Even the hint that she might not be allowed to vote motivated her to dig through her files until she found her birth certificate. It was the original, issued in 1928. The Lede Reporting and commentary ...

Every awards season is one battle after another, and the ninety-eighth Academy Awards ceremony promises a more climactic showdown than most.

The race to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene’s House seat pits a Trump-endorsed Republican attorney against a far-right insurgent backed by Kyle Rittenhouse.

This thought occurred to me last August, as the director and playwright Mark Rosenblatt and I hightailed it from a restaurant ...

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Fifty years ago, a controversial writer named Shere Hite taught us how to talk about sex and pleasure, selling books by the ...

The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.