To hear Maurice Berger tell it, growing up among mostly Black and Puerto Rican families in a low-income housing project in New York City sharpened his lens on the layers and levels of discrimination in America. “As a gay man and as a Jew, I’ve experienced homophobia and antisemitism in my life,” he writes in […]

The New York City comptroller, who oversees hundreds of billions of dollars in pension investments, is pressuring some of the world’s major sugar buyers to stop profiting off child labor, debt bondage and coerced hysterectomies in western India. The city’s pension funds own nearly $1 billion in stock in Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Mondelez and others. Those […]

Darcy Bullock, a civil engineering professor at Purdue University, turns to his computer screen to get information about how fast cars are traveling on Interstate 65, which runs 887 miles from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico. It’s midafternoon on a Monday, and his screen is mostly filled with green dots indicating that traffic […]

Zoe Saldaña, who is currently enjoying a high-profile awards season for her performance in Emilia Pérez, will be honoured with the Derek Malcolm Award for Innovation at the 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards in February, 2025. The actress is the second recipient of the award created in the memory of film critic Derek Malcolm, who […]

At SHI Stadium at Rutgers University, advertisements for Eric LeGrand Whiskey flashed across the Jumbotron and on digital billboards during football games this season as bartenders used it to whip up old-fashioned cocktails in premium seating areas. Last year, Rutgers University Athletics partnered with the whiskey, its very first partnership with a spirits brand. Now […]

The actress Jessica Harper was first profiled in The Times on Aug. 19, 1977. The occasion was the release of the Italian horror film “Suspiria,” and much was made of the fact that she had turned down a small role in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall.” She explained, “I would have loved to do ‘Annie Hall’ […]

There’s a lot about politics that’s hard to predict, but there’s something you can count on every four years: One party loses a presidential election, and the recriminations begin. Every four years, the post-election fight seems to play out the same way. Every move of the losing campaign is questioned and scrutinized. The party’s center […]

Catholic Charities is the oldest beneficiary of The New York Times Communities Fund, and the need for its services has only grown over the decades. Though run by the Catholic Church, Catholic Charities serves people of all denominations and backgrounds. Its work ranges from running a pop-up food pantry in the Bronx to assisting undocumented […]

Malaysia’s government has agreed in principle to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, more than 10 years after it disappeared in one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries, the country’s transport minister announced. Anthony Loke said on Friday that the proposal to search a new area in the southern […]

It’s been over a decade since audiences last saw a solo “Superman” movie in theaters, but director James Gunn has finally revealed the first trailer for his new DC reboot. The film stars “Twisters” actor David Corenswet as the new version of the Man of Steel, as he takes over the role from Henry Cavill. […]