I Don’t Want Anyone to Read My Diaries. Yet I Can’t Burn Them.
It could be that keeping a diary — “keep” being the operative word — is how we stay true to ourselves, even the embarrassing ...
The Old Idea That Could Give New Life to Progressive Politics
During the first Trump era, the resistance engaged in soaring rhetoric about unity — then fell apart. Will this time be ...
‘On the Tightrope’: Britain Tries to Bridge a Widening Trans-Atlantic Gap
Five years after Brexit, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s intense diplomacy on Ukraine has put Britain back in a familiar role ...
The Founders Were Afraid for the Country, Too
Somewhat lost to history in our memory and mythology of the founding fathers is the fact that their optimism regarding their ...
Social Distance
On the five-year anniversary of Covid, a look at the ways we vowed our lives and relationships would change afterward — and ...
The Frick Glows With a Poetic, $220 Million Renovation
The museum, based in Henry Clay Frick’s 1914 Fifth Avenue mansion, reopens with a deft expansion worthy of a New York ...
Are We Crazy to Cross Such a Treacherous River?
The real danger wasn’t the stream but what lay beyond — where it spilled into the ocean and the currents were treacherous. On ...
The Authoritarian Endgame on Higher Education
When a political leader wants to move a democracy toward a more authoritarian form of government, he often sets out to ...
Five Years On, Ghosts of a Pandemic We Didn’t Imagine Still Haunt Us
Time’s passage may have granted the illusion of distance, but we are living in a world that has yet to put the effects of ...
‘A Really Easy Mark for Trump’: Three Columnists on the Threats to Elite Colleges
Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists M. Gessen, Tressie ...
Trump Expands Attacks on Law Firms, Singling Out Paul, Weiss
Experts have warned that the president’s efforts threaten the ability of lawyers to do their jobs and private citizens to ...
Quote of the Day: The New Yorker Reëxamines Style Guide, and Those Dots Stay
BENJAMINE DREYER, the author of “Dreyer’s English,” speaking of style changes The New Yorker, slow to make concessions to the internet age, announced. But the magazine will keep diereses above certain ...