A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

A coterie of advisers, planners, and architects is enabling the President’s passion project—renovating D.C. in his own image.

Gloria Steinem writes about what she meant when she called herself a feminist.

Living through Operation Metro Surge, and what came after.

A father wanted to vaccinate his children. Their mother didn’t. Then the kids got sick.

Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S.

For decades, the condition was thought to be psychological, and women were shamed for their illness. Now a scientist has found a biological cause.

Tell the old story for our modern times.

The cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system.

A single mom, her two daughters, and the chatbots that fill in the gaps.

You can now make a virtual replica of a loved one. The question is what it can give you in return.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding promised a kind of narrative closure for Swifties: after the pop star spent years singing about imagined weddings, her life was finally catching up with her art...

We asked a range of luminaries who their favorite American is. The answers included scientists, playwrights, pop stars, bureaucrats—and one cartoon character.

Getting to MetLife Stadium for the World Cup is a nightmare. One writer tries a novel approach: canoe.

“We want Greenland,” Trump said. Four men sprang into action to make fantasy a reality.

On Jalen Brunson’s triumph, avoiding cover jinxes, and how much about the N.B.A. has changed since the Knicks won their last championship.

A fan’s late-night notes.

History helps explain the particular faith that now rules our religious marketplace.

The 2026 World Cup’s approach has felt strangely muted, and the U.S. team has had a rough few years. Then the games began.

In “Gerontocracy in America,” the historian Samuel Moyn argues that the central conflict of our era is between the young and the elderly.

OG’s tip-in was the most astonishing shot in franchise history, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

On Trump at M.S.G., Victor Wembanyama’s newfound aggression, and how the young Spurs found their footing.

How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.

On the Knicks’ nail-biting fourth quarter, the Spurs’ late-game mistakes, and how all of New York has fallen in love with its home team.

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On Jalen Brunson’s heroics, Victor Wembanyama’s struggles, and how the Knicks managed to come back in the second half to defeat the Spurs.

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In boyhood, guilt was a constant companion. I stopped mentioning the quarters that Mr. Wood put into my pocket.

The astronaut Reid Wiseman talks about going deeper into space than anyone in history, eating maple cookies in microgravity, and deciding how to spend his first day off after returning to Earth.

A young girl was brought from Guinea to a wealthy suburb near Dallas. She spent the next sixteen years of her life in forced servitude, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee reports.

Belle Burden’s “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage” tells the story of her divorce and resulting financial imperilment. A review of court documents complicates her narrative.

Pitchers like Jacob Misiorowski are throwing harder than ever, a result of modern baseball’s pitching development. But what does that kind of velocity do to the human arm?

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A scientist aboard the M.V. Hondius describes how the hantavirus outbreak unfolded. It was “shock after shock,” he said. “You just kind of get numb to it, I guess.”

Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.

In his first substantial conversation with a foreign journalist since being elected, Péter Magyar, Hungary’s new Prime Minister, discusses the rewriting of the Hungarian constitution, the implications...

In some ways, the world is cooked. But being a twelve-year-old still kind of eats.

The former President remains one of the most popular politicians in the country. What are his obligations to it?

Scientists said that Timmy, an ailing humpback whale, should be left to die in peace. Instead, a motley crew of veterinarians, millionaires, a celebrity biologist, and a YouTuber set out to rescue him...

The Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr on his future, coaching Draymond Green, the potential benefits of eliminating the three-point shot, and whether he might give politics a try.

At the White House Correspondents’ dinner, Antonia Hitchens heard “what sounded like a caterer dropping a stack of plates,” she writes. “Shouts of ‘Shots fired!’ soon followed.”