John Sedgwick was born into an illustrious family, but privilege was only part of the story.

"Federal agents engaged in a persistent and systematic pattern of flagrantly unconstitutional, indiscriminately abusive and frequently criminal acts during 'Operation Metro Surge,' " law professor Mic...

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Rabbi emeritus Harold J. Kravitz offers lessons from Jewish tradition about showing respect and humility to those with whom we differ.

He was the lead plaintiff in the landmark 1997 lawsuit Pigford v. Glickman, an attempt to redress the Agriculture Department’s historic racism.

From 200-mile treks to synagogue to spiritual striving, readers share the rituals that define Judaism’s holiest day for them.

Debates about Jews are never just about Jews.

Samuel Wilkeson Jr. filed a report for The Times from the battlefield. Then he went looking for a Union officer, his son.

Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

The species, called a tilcayo, is smaller than a house cat and lives in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia.

In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”

Jordan Davis on the incendiary poetics of the modern Hungarian poet, and why no single translator has yet brought a comprehensive look at his work into English.

Shield of Mnemosyne by Henry Gould

Shield of Mnemosyne is a long poem in nine parts, written over thirteen months, from January 2025 to February 2026. It is the sequel to Parmenides in Minneapolis, a sequence in three parts published b...

A Mesopotamian culture’s decorated ceramics show some early roots of math, researchers argued.

He performed at the highest level for decades, sensitively backing singers like Tony Bennett and Lena Horne when not leading his own innovative groups.

The governor is technically the boss of the Twin Cities area, which has plenty of problems that need coordinated solutions.

With a low and smoky voice, she conjured the blues tradition of her native Mississippi in both her own songs and in covers.

Instead of rallying around their candidates, Democrats are falling out among themselves.