Month: June 2025

(Here it should be said that a few years earlier, in 1990, Trump praised the Chinese government for its handling of the protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989: “When the students poured…

Even though school is out for at least a week, students kept coming on Wednesday morning, the day after a deadly school shooting in Austria stunned the country. Instead of going into…

Elon Musk said in a social media post early Wednesday that he regretted some of his posts and comments about President Trump last week, which had led the president to disparage Mr….

In Ovid’s “Pygmalion” an artist creates an ivory sculpture of a woman so beautiful that he falls in love with it. He kisses his statue, adorns it with jewels and finery, and…

It is one of America’s most majestic and recognizable landmarks, having beckoned Teddy Roosevelt, Ansel Adams and, more recently, protesters. From the granite walls of El Capitan in California’s Yosemite National Park,…

President Trump, during a speech at Fort Bragg, N.C., said on Tuesday that he would restore the names of all Army bases that were named for Confederate generals but were ordered changed…

John L. Young, who used his experience as a computer-savvy architect to help build Cryptome, a vast library of sensitive documents that both preceded WikiLeaks and in some ways outdid it in…

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Germany realized that its dependency on natural gas piped from Russia had endangered its energy security. It had no ports to bring in alternative energy sources…

Jack Ciattarelli, a Republican endorsed last month by President Trump, easily won his party’s nomination on Tuesday to run for governor of New Jersey in November. With about 90 percent of the…

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to make decisions rooted in “gold-standard science,” fired an entire committee of vaccine advisers in part because all were appointed by a Democratic…