A timely exhibition dissects the emergence of modern ideas about gender and sexuality—and the backlash against them.

As one former New York Newsday staffer put it, politicians today are fortunate the paper isn’t around “to torture them.” ...

If anyone believed him at the time, they should be disabused by now. One of his most brazen attacks on freedom of speech thus ...

Earlier today, Grok showed me how to tell if someone is a “good scientist,” just from their demographics. For starters, ...

Max Fried didn’t exactly scream like Ringo Starr at the end of “Helter Skelter,” but the southpaw did complain about a blister on his left index finger ...

Access:Horror film festival will return this year, a hybrid festival and industry summit, both online and live in New York City, […] ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, July Fourth week is a time for 250th anniversary events, the ...

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How an Ovid-quoting London broadsheet from the late seventeenth century spawned “Dear Abby,” Dan Savage, and Reddit’s Am I ...

He was a master of long form narratives, often involving high-stakes topics. He reported for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine.

In 2017, the archive was acquired by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library, and the bulk of his letters, along with rarely viewed notes and ...

Maura Finkelstein is one of many scholars discovering that the traditional protections of academic freedom are no longer holding.