The uncomfortable truth for Times readers is that all cultures are not equal. Therefore, not all cultures are compatible with ...

The nation’s largest teachers’ union is hosting a training session that features pronoun-use instructions and “oppression” ...

The clearest indicator of higher education’s decline is that fewer and fewer young people want to earn a bachelor’s degree.

Like many other transit systems with falling ridership, the Chicago Transit Authority is awash in cash. Over a fifth of the ...

In children’s advocate Natalya Murakhver’s new documentary, 15 Days, the Covid-19-era school closures return to the spotlight. Though the pandemic has passed, the film reminds us that many of that era ...

Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo are to be congratulated for the attention they have drawn to the issue of fraud committed by a large cast of Minnesota Somalis. I have devoted attention to the issue ...

Last week, my colleague Ryan Thorpe and I broke a story about widespread fraud committed by Somalis in Minnesota. Members of the state’s Somali community allegedly participated in complex schemes ...

Last month, the New York Times ran a glowing profile of Iowa City’s fare-free bus pilot program. Since eliminating fares in August 2023, the college town of 75,000 has seen ridership increase, ...

For New York residents concerned about the city’s still-elevated crime rates, the question since Election Day has been: which Zohran Mamdani will we get? Will the next mayor be the allegedly more ...

Sergio Hyland seemed like the perfect advocate. Calling himself a “fierce, relentless, implacable abolitionist,” determined to end incarceration in the United States, Hyland had spent more than two ...

American Jews are defined by apparent paradoxes. The religious group most beloved by fellow Americans, they also suffer the most bias-motivated violence—by a lot—and face increasing hostility from ...

Today, we’re looking at Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget, sex offenders and homelessness, the importance of child abuse pediatricians (CAPs), why incarceration works, and the disappearance of an ...