If these pupils made up their own school system, it would be one of the 20 largest districts in the United States. The number includes those who are doubled up in crowded apartments.

Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?

Twenty-five years later, fleeting memories and indelible images still haunt those who lived through the attacks and their aftermath.

A conversation on the primaries, the establishment’s “moderation” obsession, and why the party needs social movements more than spreadsheets and scammy fundraising.

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

She wrote an award-winning book about the leftist collective, a Latino counterpart to the Black Panthers.

A recording from Julian Zelizer's live video

Have we ever seen this before? Let's put the news in perspective and take the long view with political historian Professor Julian Zelizer. Click to read The Long View, by Julian Zelizer, a Substack pu...

No other book about the civil rights movement captures the drama and impact of the black struggle for equality better than . Two of the most respected scholars of African-American history, Steven F....

How do socialist demands become liberal common sense? The history of the New Deal offers a useful lesson.

A powerful history of New York’s transformation from a city of middle-class aspiration to one of entrenched inequality., City of Fortune, Inequality and the Making of Contemporary New York, Maso...

A short documentary film on New York’s stop-and-frisk policing focuses on Tyquan Brehon, a young man in Brooklyn who says he was stopped more than 60 times before age 18.

Illegal stops, missing paperwork and weak discipline remain widespread despite federal oversight.

Putting Mamdani’s huge win in perspective — from La Guardia to today