On April 29, 2024, Tess Segal, a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Florida, joined her fellow activists at a prominent plaza on campus calling on the university to divest from weapons manufacturers and boycott academic institutions in Israel …
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Trump Says He Wants to Save the U.S. Auto Industry. His Policies Could Destroy It.
President Trump has created what could be called a Luddite trap for the American auto industry: His tariffs aim to protect it from foreign competition, while his domestic policies threaten to cut it off from innovation. Together, they risk leaving U …
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Dick Barnett, Champion Knick With a Singular Jump Shot, Dies at 88
A guard, he played on New York’s two (and only) title-winning teams, in the 1970s. He was remembered for his scoring and his “fall back, baby” shooting style.
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Zurab Tsereteli, Polarizing Russian Sculptor of Colossal Works, Dies at 91
In bronze, he glorified figures like Peter the Great and Vladimir Putin, often to the public’s distaste. Some works, like a giant Columbus and a 9/11 memorial, were reviled.
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Alexis Herman, First Black Secretary of Labor, Dies at 77
A social worker, she became a Democratic Party insider and joined President Bill Clinton’s cabinet during his second term.
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The Fear Factor and America’s Future
More from our inbox: Depression and AgingPaul Revere’s LegacyCredit…Robert Gumpert/ReduxTo the Editor: “I Have Never Been More Afraid for My Country’s Future,” by Thomas L. Friedman (column, April 17), is an alarm we all need to hear. His main …
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‘He’s Often Working Backward From a Conclusion’: Three Opinion Writers on Kennedy
Alexandra Sifferlin, a health and science editor for Times Opinion, hosted a written conversation with the Opinion columnist Ross Douthat and the Opinion writers Jessica Grose and David Wallace-Wells about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first two months as …
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100 Days. That’s All It Took to Sever America From the World.
In 1941, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt marshaled support for the fight against fascism, his chief antagonists were isolationists at home. “What I seek to convey,” he said at the beginning of an address to Congress, “is the historic truth that …
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Harvard May Not Be the Hero We Want, but It Is the Hero We Need
Like many of its conservative alumni, I have a complicated relationship with Harvard. I grew up in a small town in Kentucky, where I went to public school. I attended college at a small Christian university in Nashville. I never had a thought that I …
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