Education

N.Y. Officials Reject Students’ Pleas to Move Exams ...

The championship celebration starts at 10 a.m. Thursday, just as some of the ...

How Does One Brain Speak Two Languages?

A new study of bilingual speakers suggests that a single “grammatical engine”...

Legal and Lobbying Costs Surge as Universities Face ...

Some universities’ tax returns showed that their legal bills had more than do...

Threats, Free Speech and the Case Against U. of Mich...

Prosecutors accused eight pro-Palestinian activists with ties to the universi...

Book Review: ‘The Emergency Playbook,’ by Amy Edelma...

“The Emergency Playbook” is a disaster preparation guide that emphasizes comm...

Mark Singer, Longtime Writer for The New Yorker, Die...

He joined the magazine’s staff at 23. Among the subjects of his profiles were...

Robert Thurman, Leading Expert on Tibetan Buddhism a...

A former monk who was also Uma Thurman’s father, he made sure Buddhism retain...

A Tenacious Lifeguard Still Swims Against the Tide

Janet Fash was always outspoken when it came to keeping beachgoers safe. She ...

David Thomson Loves the Movies but Not What They Hav...

How the film writer David Thomson found himself in a lover’s quarrel with cin...

Danny McBride Thinks Men Learned All the Wrong Lesso...

The writer and actor, known for his profane comedic antiheroes, likes to find...

Book Review: ‘The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life Af...

In “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI,” the renowned tech critic C...

Gary Shteyngart, a Russian-Born Author, Tours Thomas...

I emigrated from the Soviet Union decades ago, and recently toured Thomas Jef...

Jon Klassen on Ghosts in Children’s Stories

Ghosts in stories for children are a blank canvas. You can show your audience...

Jean Houston, ‘Midwife of Souls’ Who Advised Hillary...

The author of books like “The Possible Human,” she held workshops that drew o...

Book Review: ‘Presence: A Hidden History of the Fema...

In “Presence,” the historian Erin Maglaque pieces together the fragments of e...

Book Review: ‘Regime Change,’ by Maggie Haberman and...

In “Regime Change,” two New York Times journalists offer a riveting chronicle...