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  1. How Harvard’s Epic Fight With Trump Is Costing the University

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:52:29 -0000

    The federal government has slowed Harvard’s funding, despite the university’s legal victories. The conflict is forcing hard choices on campus.
  2. Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:51:53 -0000

    It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.
  3. Push for Online Gun Sales Meets a Surprising Opponent: Small Gun Dealers

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:07:26 -0000

    The Trump administration wants average Americans to be able to buy guns online and have them shipped to their doors. Small gun stores warn it could upend the industry and risk public safety.
  4. Gazebos From Uzbekistan: The Latest Foreign Gifts in Trump’s Washington

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:54:58 -0000

    The structures will go up in West Potomac Park, the site of President Trump’s planned National Garden of American Heroes.
  5. Iran Must Plan to Overcome U.S. Sanctions After Trump’s ‘Economic D-Day’ Threats, Tehran Official Says

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:41:39 -0000

    Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, lead negotiator in talks with Washington, made the comments after President Trump vowed an “economic D-Day” against Iran.
  6. Why China Thinks It Can Resist Trump’s Economic Threats on Iran

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:48:14 -0000

    Beijing can squeeze U.S. critical mineral supplies and has enough oil to withstand the loss of Iranian crude, Chinese analysts say.
  7. Iran War Raises Risk of Collisions and Oil Spills in Strait of Hormuz

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:02:46 -0000

    More vessels are navigating the Strait of Hormuz with their location devices turned off to evade attacks by Iran, adding to the threat of collisions.
  8. Return of Harry and Meghan to U.K. Renews Questions About Their Security Fears

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:10:47 -0000

    The couple lost their publicly funded security after deciding to leave Britain in 2020, deepening their split with the royal family.
  9. ‘They’re Always Going to Be Polarizing’: Britons Split on Harry and Meghan’s Return

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:23:39 -0000

    Recent surveys suggest the broader public views both of them negatively, especially in comparison to Harry’s brother, William, and his wife, Kate.
  10. Prince Harry, Elton John and Others Told to Pay Daily Mail Publisher $13 Million

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:24:03 -0000

    Harry and six other high-profile figures lost a privacy lawsuit against Associated Newspapers. They may eventually have to pay more than twice the initial sum, a judge said.
  11. Should You Invest in Bonds Right Now?

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:59:45 -0000

    High-quality bonds are still safer than stocks, but they have been swinging in value, so move cautiously, our columnist says.
  12. Giorgia Meloni Cuts the Hard Right a Path to Power

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:01:21 -0000

    In a rare interview, the onetime political outcast reflects on her route from “the uncomfortable side of history” to the threshold of leading Italy’s most durable postwar government.
  13. How New York’s Second-Home Tax Turned Into a Headache for Mamdani

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:16:04 -0000

    The bumpy rollout of the tax created an opportunity for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s opponents to fight him in court and in the City Council.
  14. N.Y. State Senator’s Former Aides Say She Double-Billed for Travel

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:47:53 -0000

    For years, Jessica Ramos used campaign money to pay for hotels and Amtrak tickets while also receiving state payments for travel, records and interviews show.
  15. Landmarks Panel Approves Designs to Replace Parking Lot With High Rises

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:00:11 -0000

    Local groups in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan opposed the plan, saying designs for two apartment buildings did not reflect the neighborhood’s historical character.
  16. Bryan Johnson Wants to Live Forever. But Why?

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:18:55 -0000

    The longevity guru intensely monitors his diet and health. At a dinner party, he was asked about his quest for immortality. There was silence.
  17. Flock Cameras. Canoodling Lawyers. How Much Surveillance Are We Comfortable With?

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:02:32 -0000

    Americans say they hate prying cameras. But they can’t look away.
  18. Palestinian Teenager Killed After Israeli Settlers Enter West Bank Village

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:24:10 -0000

    Palestinian and Israeli authorities offered divergent accounts of the incident, which came as settler violence has surged across the Israeli-occupied territory.
  19. Shein, a Fast-Fashion Giant, Struggles to Grow Ahead of a Much-Delayed IPO

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:58:39 -0000

    Facing pressure in the United States and Europe, Shein is struggling to find new ways to grow ahead of its much-delayed initial public offering.
  20. Richard Gadd Had Never Heard of the Manosphere

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:02:54 -0000

    The creator and star of “Half Man” didn’t have a particular agenda for this dark tale of male repression. But “people think that it’s a political piece of work,” he said.
  21. Why Do We Keep Imagining a New Civil War?

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:57:20 -0000

    Art doesn’t predict the future, but it can be an early warning system.
  22. The China Shock 2.0

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:02:37 -0000

    China is winning the industries of the future. What should the U.S. do about it?
  23. A City Under Siege

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:31:46 -0000

    We look at how dire the situation has become inside Kyiv.
  24. Rosie O’Donnell Ends Late Night Stint With a Ditty to ‘Donny Boy’

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:44:38 -0000

    “It’s kind of weird to think he spent more nights with me this week than Melania,” O’Donnell said of President Trump on her last night guest-hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
  25. U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:47:03 -0000

    Samuel Tunick, who faces a felony charge for deleting his phone’s data during an airport customs search, called the government’s peering into people’s private lives “creepy.”
  26. The Real Meaning of the Jason Arday Scandal

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:33:51 -0000

    In a young Black professor’s academic misconduct, a “race-realist” found a “hook for a story.”
  27. How Far Will the Trump Administration Go to Deport Mahmoud Khalil?

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Khalil protested Israel as a student at Columbia. Now he’s on the verge of being kicked out of the country.
  28. The Big, Dumb, Gluttonous Fun of America’s Semiquincentennial

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In D.C. and the Dakotas, at rodeos and powwows, celebrating the country means taking in pride and disappointment and fellow-feeling.
  29. The End of the European Summer

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to transform themselves for a climate that they were never built to withstand.
  30. The Children a Scientist Took Home

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize 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.
  31. Nayib Bukele’s Content Machine Is Reshaping Latin America

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    How El Salvador’s authoritarian leader loomed over Colombia’s Presidential race.
  32. Donald Trump Is Still Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The SAVE America Act is just one part of a package that includes an executive order and threats of prosecution, all in an effort to make Trump’s math work.
  33. How Trump Is Trying to Weaken Migrant Children’s Legal Defense

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    After failing to eliminate funding for unaccompanied minors’ lawyers altogether, the Administration is pushing cases toward entities that lack both immigration expertise and the capacity to take them on.
  34. Is D.N.C. Chair the Worst Job in Washington?

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:13:00 -0000

    The organization is holding its annual summer meeting, and onlookers are calling for the head of its leader, Ken Martin. Then again, the Democrats are always doing that kind of thing.
  35. What Do India’s Gen Z Protests Mean for Modi?

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:19:00 -0000

    A movement of young people frustrated with India’s education system and economy has become the most serious challenge yet to an increasingly authoritarian government.
  36. Abdul El-Sayed’s Argument for America—and Against His Own Party

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate on campaigning with Hasan Piker, being a capitalist, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.”
  37. Will Left-Wing Democrats Reinvent the Party or Hurt Its Chances in November?

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Bernie Sanders’s erstwhile campaign manager explains why he thinks it’s the former.
  38. The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

    Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
  39. How I Became a Subaru Socialist

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark.
  40. A Trump Grift Too Far?

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A scheme to charge Wall Street traders for an early look at the President’s comments on Truth Social has generated outrage and a lawsuit.
  41. The Red Sox Cannot Be Made to Make Any Sense

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Teams get hot, then cold; they get lucky, then unlucky. Records rarely paint a full picture of a season—especially for fans determined to believe in another comeback story.
  42. If A.I. Takes the Jobs of Young People, How Will They React?

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Democratic electorate is already moving left, but that may be nothing compared with what happens when unemployment really starts to rise.
  43. A Political Awakening in Arab America

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A Midwestern Muslim family’s story of immigration, assimilation, and how one year changed the life of its youngest son.
  44. After Six Months of War, Trump Is Still Losing to Iran

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The conflict marks a “precipitous collapse of American power and American prestige.”
  45. Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0000

    The Vermont senator co-sponsored a bill that calls for a moratorium on building data centers. He discusses the environmental and economic concerns, and what the government can do.
  46. Israel’s Leaders Find Allies Among the Global Far Right

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:36:48 -0000

    Support for the nation is becoming an increasingly polarizing issue in politics around the world.
  47. Who Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo?

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A death during an ICE traffic stop raises outrage in Houston—and in Mexico.
  48. What Francesca Hong’s Defeat Means for Democrats

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:23:56 -0000

    The democratic socialist’s rise in Wisconsin was supposed to portend a major breakthrough for the left. Her narrow loss should still be a wake-up call for the Party’s establishment.
  49. Minnesota Primary-Election Results

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:37:23 -0000

    Peggy Flanagan wins the state’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate; Mike Lindell, a close ally to President Donald Trump, loses the Republican gubernatorial primary.
  50. South Carolina Primary-Election Results: Graham and Norman Advance

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:37:02 -0000

    In the special Republican primary to replace Senator Lindsey Graham, who passed away in July, his sister Darline Graham and Representative Ralph Norman will move on to a runoff election in late August.