The news that just seven black students were offered admission to Stuyvesant High School, the most celebrated public school in New York City, is an embarrassment. It should also be a call to action for state lawmakers, who hold the power to change an admissions process that shuts out black and Latino students from New […]

Theresa May’s third hefty Brexit defeat makes a no-deal exit in 13 days a very real threat. And one simple fact screamed out of the vast fog of confusion over the past week: a no-deal Brexit means a return of the Irish Border – the only thing open for discussion is where and how controls […]

When I first moved to Southern California, I was struck by the Friday afternoon conversations in which colleagues discussed their weekend hiking plans the way New Yorkers would talk about where they might have brunch. Almost everyone hiked, and they were eager to extol the merits of favorite trails. I soon came to understand that […]

America, and the music world at large, has spent a significant portion of the past month grappling with the implications of “Leaving Neverland,” the haunting HBO documentary that revisits highly credible pedophilia allegations against Michael Jackson. But on Friday, good news will emerge about a member of the Jackson family that runs the risk of […]

The tide has been turning on the nation’s health for many years. We’ve seen the McDonald’s food chain embrace salads and politicians introduce a sugar tax to help cut obesity rates. So is it a surprise Coca-Cola is diversifying from sugary drinks towards protein-packed milk? No. In fact, it’s already made the move on the […]

To the Editor: Re “Not All Medicare Cuts Are Bad” (editorial, March 26): While your editorial board and the Trump administration may not always see eye to eye, this editorial finds important areas of agreement. The president’s 2020 budget takes thoughtful steps to strengthen and protect the Medicare program for America’s seniors. In fact, the […]

Netflix’s recent announcement that it had acquired the rights for the first screen adaptation of “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” the classic novel by Gabriel García Márquez, has provoked an international controversy. Is it acceptable to adapt a work that its author, who died in 2014, did not want to take to the big screen? […]

To the Editor: Re “In Most Diverse House, Another First: A Record Number of Top Aides of Color” (news article, March 16): Changing the face of top congressional aides is integral to ensuring points of view from people of all backgrounds. But we will never be able to bring wholesale change at the top if […]

PARIS — Depuis plusieurs semaines, Algériennes et Algériens défilent pacifiquement dans la rue — des manifestations historiques dont le point d’orgue est une rencontre hebdomadaire, le vendredi, où toutes les catégories sociales et d’âge se rejoignent pour battre le pavé et rivaliser en slogans et chants. À l’origine, les revendications exprimaient un clair refus d’un […]

At 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, Winston Churchill was looking out of the window of his Ministry of Munitions, toward Trafalgar Square in London, waiting for the great bell of Big Ben to sound, telling Britons that World War I was finally over. “And then suddenly the first stroke of the chime,” he recalled […]