Artists from different cultural traditions adapted an ancient tale to explore how to respond to betrayal and exploitation.

In a video rolling out his foreign policy agenda during the 2024 campaign, Trump called himself "the only president who ...

An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows the impact of the administration’s budget plan on the kind of studies that produce the most breakthroughs.

A hundred years later, many religious Americans in rural areas still feel that the cosmopolitan leaders of the Democratic ...

The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to ...

As cleanup continues in the notoriously polluted Gowanus Canal, amenity-filled developments are drawing new residents to the ...

Donors hope to raise huge sums of money to help those fighting what they see as a drift toward authoritarianism, but without ...

The New York Times critic and I are deep into a conversation about a long-simmering anxiety: that digital consumption is rapidly skewing toward increasingly video-centric platforms, potentially ...

Maybe there’s only one lesson from President Trump’s hugely horrific bill: Legislating works very differently when there is a ...

The Times contends in their 1619 Project that the true founding of our nation is not 1776, but when the first slave arrived ...

America is nearing the 250th anniversary of its revolutionary birth, the Declaration of Independence. July 4, 2026, will mark ...

Five years ago, on July 4, 2020, the country was in the midst of waves of rioting. The proximate cause, the match that lit the fire, was the death of a black man, a violent ex-convict, on May 25, with ...