O ne well-worn refrain of progressive urban politics is that new, “luxury” housing will not help solve the housing shortage. A 2024 study of U.S. voters found that 30 to 40 pe ...

I was ready to break free of my father and question everything I had been taught as a daughter and as an Alawite. Robert F. Worth: The fall of the house of Assad I slipped quietly into early protest ...

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Those of us who watch the Olympics as bystanders tend to smugly judge athletes for succumbing to pressure without ...

The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response ...

Americans are eating candy in disguise.

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Gallup, who turned 35 in 1936, had launched a research company the year before. To promote his work, he undertook his own ...

Before he became a filmmaker, Frederick Wiseman was a professor who was in over his head. Wiseman had gone to Yale Law School ...

A collection of creative photographs from this year’s games featuring infrared imaging, vintage cameras, optical filters, ...

Kennedy Jr., and Pam Bondi would be joining up to lead a new “strike force” aimed at puppy mills, dog-fighting rings, and unscrupulous animal research. “We’re coming after you if you’re going after ...

The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.