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  1. For Iran, Flexing Control Over Waterway Is New Deterrent

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:08:40 -0000

    Iran’s government could emerge from the conflict with a blueprint to keep adversaries at bay, regardless of any restrictions on its nuclear program.
  2. Reopening Strait of Hormuz Would Ease Oil Crisis but Only So Much

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:11:42 -0000

    Analysts said energy and shipping companies would be reluctant to fully restore operations until they were confident that hostilities were over.
  3. More Displaced Lebanese Head Home as Cease-Fire Is Tested

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:26:00 -0000

    The truce appeared to mostly hold even as Israel said it had carried out strikes on what it called “terrorists” approaching its forces in southern Lebanon. Separately, a U.N. peacekeeper was killed.
  4. Trump Signs Executive Order to Loosen Restrictions on Psychedelic Drugs

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:18:32 -0000

    The president’s executive order is intended to accelerate research into the compounds’ efficacy in treating mental health disorders like severe depression and PTSD.
  5. U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

    Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:02:30 -0000

    A former lawyer for President Trump’s campaign, Joseph diGenova, is said to be planning to split time between Miami and Fort Pierce, where a grand jury overseen by a Trump-favored judge sits.
  6. Potential 2028 Democrats Audition in Michigan,With a Focus on Trump

    Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:29:35 -0000

    Former Vice President Kamala Harris, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey and Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky spoke at a gathering of party insiders in Detroit, fueling presidential speculation.
  7. ‘Turning Point Was Charlie Kirk’: Why This Student Group Moved On

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:32:05 -0000

    Students at the University of Arkansas disagreed with Turning Point’s direction, pointing to challenges ahead for the conservative group.
  8. Maduro’s Successor Is Purging Allies Who Kept Him in Power in Venezuela

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:06:56 -0000

    The successor to Venezuela’s captured President Nicolás Maduro is purging the people who kept him in power.
  9. U.S. Officials Visited Havana to Lay Out Proposals for Cuban Reforms

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:17:15 -0000

    The delegation told Cuba’s leadership that it had only a narrow window of time to make the economic and political changes demanded by the Trump administration.
  10. New York’s Anti-Rich Current Reaches Apex With Second-Home Tax Plan

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:34:57 -0000

    With a new tax proposal, the threat of a building workers’ strike and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s shunning of the Met Gala, the city’s wealth gap was on full display.
  11. Activists Urge Boycott of ‘Bezos Met Gala’ With Posters Around NYC

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:50:34 -0000

    A guerrilla activist group is covering New York with posters criticizing the billionaire Jeff Bezos’ involvement in the event, a fund-raiser for the Metropolitan Museum.
  12. Mamdani and Obama Lead Preschool Singalong to Promote Free Child Care

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:59:35 -0000

    In their first public appearance together, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former President Barack Obama met up for some joking and singing on Saturday at a Bronx child care center.
  13. The Pope Bedevils Trump

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:39:05 -0000

    A higher authority finally tells Trump he’s no messiah.
  14. She Has an A.I. Boyfriend. Her Son Has Questions.

    Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:07:58 -0000

    What happens when your parent falls in love with an A.I. chatbot?
  15. Activists Tear-Gassed at Failed Raid of Beagle Research Facility

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:40:33 -0000

    Some 1,000 protesters tried to storm a private breeding and lab facility in Wisconsin in an effort to steal thousands of beagles that are bred for medical experimentation.
  16. What to Know About the Bulgarian Election

    Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:01:06 -0000

    The Black Sea country is holding its eighth election in five years, with Bulgarians yearning for the kind of prosperous life enjoyed by other Europeans.
  17. Kyiv Mass Shooting Kills 6 and Gunman Is Shot Dead After Taking Hostages in Grocery

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:43:28 -0000

    It was the deadliest mass shooting in Ukraine in years, where firearms have proliferated since the war with Russia began.
  18. Remains Linked to Submerged Car Solve 1958 Mystery of Missing Oregon Family

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:13:30 -0000

    The case of the missing Martin family was unsolved until a diver found a car in an Oregon river in 2024. Officials, relying on DNA tests, said Thursday that they had identified the remains of three people.
  19. El retorno de la detención familiar

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:40:01 -0000

    Durante el gobierno de Trump, miles de niños inmigrantes han sido detenidos y muchos han sufrido de negligencia médica.
  20. The Return of Family Detention

    Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect.
  21. New Orleans’s Car-Crash Conspiracy

    Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.
  22. Why I Wanted to Keep My Marriage a Secret, by David Sedaris

    Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    It’s not that I was embarrassed by Hugh or that I thought someone better might come along. I just shudder when I hear a man say the words “my husband.”
  23. J. D. Vance’s Bumpy Ride

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    It wasn’t the first time that Trump had debased someone who serves him. It wasn’t even the first time that Vance had had to downplay a blasphemy-themed A.I. image.
  24. The South Texas Democrat Who Will Sing at Your Quinceañera

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:06:55 -0000

    Bobby Pulido, a Tejano musician who’s trying to unseat a Republican in Congress, has turned some of his district’s splashiest parties into campaign stops.
  25. Who Is the U.S. Negotiating with in Iran?

    Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:07:57 -0000

    As Trump searches for a friendly successor to the Ayatollah in Tehran, the leadership vacuum in the Iranian regime has been filled by hard-line members of the Revolutionary Guard.
  26. What Brought Down Eric Swalwell

    Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:52:26 -0000

    How the attention economy produced a moment of congressional reckoning.
  27. The Extremes of Israeli Public Opinion

    Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:42:29 -0000

    Israeli voters are against a ceasefire with Iran, and think Benjamin Netanyahu has not gone far enough.
  28. Israel’s War in Lebanon Has Not Stopped

    Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:20:29 -0000

    While America and Iran negotiate a ceasefire, Beirut remains under siege.
  29. How Pakistan Became a Major Player in Peace Negotiations Between the U.S. and Iran

    Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:40:23 -0000

    Pakistan’s military has wooed Donald Trump, and fallen out with its former Taliban allies, as the country looks to wield more influence in the region.
  30. How Donald Trump May Have Sabotaged His Chances for a Deal with Iran

    Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:38:52 -0000

    The Iranian regime has shut down the Strait of Hormuz, destabilizing global markets and leaving the U.S. with no good options.
  31. How Jomboy Is Changing the Way Baseball Is Watched

    Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:49:59 -0000

    Major League Baseball, in the hope of expanding the game’s appeal and reaching younger fans, bought a minority stake in the popular media company founded by Jimmy O’Brien.
  32. An Economist’s Quest to Solve America’s Wage Problem

    Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Arindrajit Dube argues that the answer is empowering workers and setting mandatory wage standards across industries.
  33. The N.B.A.’s Race to the Bottom

    Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Despite the league’s many attempts to combat tanking, the incentive to lose remains strong for teams hoping to strategize for the future. Is there a fix?
  34. The Spectacle of War and the Struggle to Protest

    Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    On social media, images of destruction in Iran are giving way to commentary from talking heads, dulling the reality of war.
  35. A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:00:00 -0000

    The Israeli historian Omer Bartov argues in his new book that a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza.
  36. Saving a Lost Generation of Young Men—with Chop Saws

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The College of St. Joseph the Worker, which combines the trades with a liberal-arts education, is trying to restore its students’ sense of their own competence, and revive the city of Steubenville, Ohio, along the way.
  37. Queen Elizabeth II and the Lost Art of Fashion Diplomacy

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    “The Queen’s Style,” a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace, offers a lesson in how to make powerful statements without saying a word.
  38. America’s Orange Jesus

    Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:25:07 -0000

    Reflections on a week in which Donald Trump decided to feud with the Pope while comparing himself to the Saviour.
  39. How Much Has the War in Iran Depleted the U.S. Missile Supply?

    Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Defense officials inside the Trump Administration were already concerned that American stockpiles were insufficient for a potential standoff with China. A war of choice in the Middle East has only made matters worse.
  40. “The Peace President” Gets Belligerent with Iran and the Pope

    Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:27:19 -0000

    After negotiations to end the war failed to produce a deal, Trump imposed a naval blockade to cut off the Islamic Republic’s ability to trade through the Strait of Hormuz.
  41. The Hungarian Election Shows That Even Strongmen Can Lose

    Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:04:45 -0000

    Many people in the country had trouble imagining that Viktor Orbán could be defeated. But a philosopher also warned that defeatism can abet authoritarianism.
  42. Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI

    Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on the rise of the C.E.O. of OpenAI, and how allegations of deceptive behavior continue to dog one of the most powerful figures in tech.