The present and past coexist in a Southern city unlike any other.
The president of Bard College raised millions to save his school from closure. As he sought donations, he talked with Jeffrey Epstein about music, watches and young female musicians.
A group of academics at the University of British Columbia say the school’s D.E.I. policies and practices, which include land acknowledgments, violate a law that requires universities to be “nonpolitical.”
The Department of Homeland Security’s tracking of opponents of ICE. Also: Antislavery Americans; Native American pain; hazing laws; sympathy from Canada.
Linda McMahon is shocked — shocked! — that there’s been a backlash to the Department of Education’s ‘History Rocks!’ tour.
Academics have tried to reimagine how our tax laws would be transformed through a feminist lens, and how they could be more equitable and attentive toward caregivers.
NYU Langone Health cited the “current regulatory environment” in its decision to discontinue its gender medicine program for minors.
The green card holder from the West Bank had been detained during a citizenship appointment.
Marco Rubio reminds an audience in Munich of what still unites us.
A new set of oral history interviews documents how Barack Obama and his advisers missed the shifting mood of the country that would ultimately replace him with a successor they considered a “con man,” “clown” and “laughingstock.”
This simple stroll can help you explore the possibilities for transformation in the place you live.
The release of documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein has sent ripples through the worlds of business, politics and academia, including at Columbia, where he helped his girlfriend gain entry.
The new governor of Virginia, who ran as a centrist Democrat and a former intelligence officer, says the attacks are a sign of her success.
Professors and presidents are often eager to raise outside cash. Some are now facing blowback after connecting with Jeffrey Epstein.
The party is dedicated to running the country under Islamic law, but ran on a more moderate platform. It gained far more seats in last week’s election than it ever had before.
A researcher, professor and federal policy adviser, he guided students who went on to do groundbreaking work in connecting the world online.
Mr. Klein, who led an education technology company after running the New York City school system, met with Jeffrey Epstein over a period of several months in 2013.
The heart is not romance; it’s the organ that guards the line between life and death.
A federal prosecutor said last month that ICE had made a “mistake” in deporting Any Lucia López Belloza, a college freshman in Massachusetts, to Honduras.
A judge declared a mistrial after a jury could not reach a verdict in a case in which five current and former students were charged with felonies.
More than 40 people have fallen ill at Ave Maria University, raising fears that college campuses may soon experience more measles outbreaks.
The violence on Thursday night took place in a residence hall near the site of two other shootings in October.
The exhibition at the University of North Texas by a Mexican-born artist included the language “Immigration and Cruelty Enforcement.”
Shortly before her disappearance, Ms. Guthrie, the mother of the NBC host Savannah Guthrie, was celebrating her 84th birthday and playing games.
Before leaving The Times after 22 years, David Brooks responds to readers’ questions.
A Penn State sociology professor, she warned that hosts like Oprah Winfrey exploited vulnerable guests on television and sensationalized deviancy.
The Trump administration appears to have renewed its pressure campaign against Harvard since President Trump backtracked this month on a possible settlement with the Ivy League school.
Harold Holzer, an expert on Abraham Lincoln, is taking over the role of borough historian. He is looking ahead to some significant milestones this year.
The accommodation for athletes includes a video game lounge, massage room and a range of food options. Starting from September, it will house students — or at least those who can afford the rent.
The move will allow the schools to raise tuition for the first time since 2019 as part of a broader plan to boost funding for higher education in the Canadian province.
Human intelligence — the thing we as educators are duty bound to defend and advance — is under attack.
Research from the New York Fed confirms that U.S. companies and consumers are bearing tariff costs, despite the president’s assertions otherwise.
After another journalist interviewed the university’s former president about Jeffrey Epstein, a professor physically intervened when a documentarian wanted to ask more questions.
Melting mega-piles of grimy road snow can release weeks worth of salt, oils (and dog poop) in what one scientist called a “triple whammy.”
Leqaa Kordia, 33, of New Jersey, was hospitalized after hitting her head at a Texas detention center, her lawyer said. She was initially arrested during a 2024 protest at Columbia University.
In pursuit of an interesting life, he came face to face with death.
The ice that fell during last month’s storm was unsparing: It decimated magnolias, oaks and other species in wealthy suburban enclaves, rural communities and urban parks.
They churn out research papers at a rapid pace, but the quality of these publications has too often been in question.
He survived the Holocaust and Communist rule in Hungary, arrived penniless in New York and made himself into a pre-eminent Civil War scholar.
Federal records show that Jeffrey Epstein used donations and connections as he sought to gain college admission for young women in his orbit.
The pianist Nicolas Namoradze teamed with neuroscientists for a breakthrough in experiment design.
A freshman seminar encourages students to behave differently in the world and feel more passionately about biodiversity.
Leon Botstein, Bard’s president, also invited Jeffrey Epstein to visit a high school linked to Bard College and sent him well wishes after stories were published about his sexual abuse of minors.
Readers find the president’s posting of a racist video shameful and in keeping with his previous appeals to white supremacy. Also: Bad Bunny; Trump vs. Harvard; medical A.I.
To Lam is a former security chief who carved his way to prominence and relishes the good life. He has promised to make Communist Vietnam rich and influential.
Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana traditionally were America’s educational basement, but now they are showing blue states a way forward.
Over 41 seasons as head coach, he won two national titles and sent more than 200 players to the major leagues, including Mike Mussina and Jack McDowell.
Mientras la economía de Cuba está en caída libre, su red eléctrica falla, y millones de sus ciudadanos se han marchado, el gobierno de la isla se enfrenta a lo que quizás sea su enemigo más amenazante: el presidente Donald Trump.
En todo el país, los fans del k-pop y los k-dramas están acudiendo en masa a clases de coreano.
The Trump administration, which has tightened the U.S. chokehold on Cuba by cutting off foreign oil, is betting that this is the Cuban communist revolution’s last year.
A majority of those who lost service have had their power restored. But thousands in more rural areas remain in darkness, according to a local utility.
What if the valedictorians in our schools were the cool kids?
Beating America has always felt good, especially on the ice. Since President Trump began issuing tariffs and threats against Canada, sports feels extra personal.
Mr. Hegseth’s order appeared to target his alma mater, Harvard’s Kennedy School for public policy.
Bard College’s president, Leon Botstein, said his school needed cash. But a rare watch and a Caribbean visit show how his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein sometimes veered into the personal.
A recent report found that a majority of grades given out at Harvard were A’s. Professors will vote on a proposal to limit the number to around 20 percent.
Demonstrators, who were demanding that the university provide more protection for international students, blocked Broadway.
San Ramon, Calif., has been rattled by dozens of small earthquakes in recent months. Even in a region used to regular shaking, it’s been a lot.
Markers on Lower Broadway recognize leaders who received ticker-tape parades. Some of them are now regarded as war criminals.
A year into President Trump’s second term, his threats, retreats, twists and turns appear to be wearing on allies and adversaries.
The president, Beong-Soo Kim, had served on an interim basis and already faced pressure from the Trump administration to join a higher education compact to follow a set of conservative ideas. He refused.
Emails released by the U.S. Department of Justice show that Jeffrey Epstein helped Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn as one of their daughters was applying to colleges, connecting the family with the president of Bard College.
Bard College’s president, Leon Botstein, agreed to help Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn’s daughter after Jeffrey Epstein connected them, emails released by the Justice Department show.
Columnist Ross Douthat on “the truth that you won’t hear” when it comes to Trump’s vanishing coalition.
In a federal lawsuit, the lecturer, Melissa McCoul, accused the university of violating the First Amendment.
The show, about a romance between two closeted pro hockey players, is a surprise hit. But its popularity underscores how little has changed in the hypermasculine world of men’s professional sports.
Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain.
In the latest example of his mercurial negotiating style, President Trump went from dropping his ask for a $200 million fine to demanding $1 billion from the university.
James M. Heaps was sentenced to 11 years in prison in April 2023. A note from the jury to the judge during deliberations was never disclosed, and an appeals court said the case must be retried.
The suit asks that a judge find the pay-for-play visa program unlawful, casting it as another example of the Trump administration’s seeking to bypass Congress.
A long-term study of 292 families linked fathers’ parenting style to their children’s heart health years later. To researchers’ surprise, no such link was found with mothers.
Experts are using high-res scanners and 3-D printers to illuminate ancient ailments and injuries.
An analysis finds that flagship state universities, as well as less selective colleges, had major increases in Black and Hispanic students following a ban on race-conscious admissions.
West Haven, Conn., has budgeted $16,000 for an acoustics expert to try to pinpoint the source of a low-frequency disturbance that has disrupted residents’ lives.
The Trump administration has lowered the bar for a deal with the university, backtracking on its insistence on a $200 million payment to the government, The New York Times has learned.
Many Americans are growing both exhausted and frightened by Trump’s scorched-earth, hyperpartisan, fire-ready-aim approach to the presidency.
Immigration raids have scared off customers and workers, a pattern repeated in other cities where federal officials have arrived in force.
Representative Mike Lawler, who has promised to hold several town halls as he seeks re-election, was repeatedly heckled by audience members in Rockland County.
Three 20-year-old students in Delta Tau Delta at Northern Arizona University were arrested on Saturday. The fraternity has been suspended.
Spurning the free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited poems for children.
By forcing an impossible economic model on the Washington National Opera, the Kennedy Center essentially disowned the art form.
Readers respond to a guest essay about the state’s effort to bar “officially disapproved ideas” from its university classrooms.
The unexpected sighting of a waved albatross, which was thousands of miles from its typical range, earned it a label ornithologists reserve for the unexpected: an avian “vagrant.”
This month offers a Valentine’s Saturday, a Fat Tuesday and a month of Black history, plus the Harlem Globetrotters and a last call for Gumby.
Decades after a landmark study showed the lasting health effects of such trauma, researchers are finding ways to guard against enduring harm.
The coyote struggled onto the rocky shore this month. It is the first documented coyote on Alcatraz since the island was transferred to the National Park Service in 1972.
It is rare for schools to work in concert with immigration officials, and it remains unclear if the partnerships have led to deportations.
New policies limiting the teaching of race and gender issues led administrators and professors to change hundreds of courses. School leaders say the rules could hurt A&M’s reputation.
After 22 wonderful years, I’ve decided to take the exciting and terrifying step of leaving in order to try to build something new.
Artificial intelligence is replacing young people's social intuitions.
Harvard University has been trying to cut back how many A grades professors give. Now, 53 percent of grades are A’s, down from 60 percent.
A Black female doctor when that was rare, she developed a diagnostic test for the disease that is still a standard tool, as well as treatment guidelines.
Readers respond to an essay by Representative Mike Lawler, Republican of New York. Also: A suggestion for Columbia’s new president; a “no” from Canada.
If college education is merely a transaction, educators — and facts — are vulnerable.
High schoolers are turning to chatbots for help navigating the college admissions process. Does a virtual college coach know what’s best for students?
Sites in China are selling test questions, and online forums offer software that can bypass test protections, according to tutors and testing experts raising alarms.
Gov. Greg Abbott said the state would investigate public agencies and universities that employ those with H-1B visas, a program the Trump administration has also targeted.
Other costs would also be waived for students whose families earn less than $100,000. Yale joins other elite schools offering more generous financial aid, including Penn, Harvard and M.I.T.
The moment is ripe to deal a debilitating blow to Trumpism and the MAGA movement. But who can deliver it?
Donde algunos republicanos ven un abandono de las normas y alianzas de posguerra, los seguidores de Trump alaban a un presidente que revive el espíritu de Theodore Roosevelt.
Jennifer Mnookin forged compromises with protesters and politicians at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Now, she faces her biggest test.
The forecasts had predicted that the storm could be among the worst in a generation to hit the region. By Monday, it was clear that is exactly what happened.
Drawing on his love of fly-fishing, he developed a balloon catheter that removes blood clots from patients’ limbs in a minimally invasive way. It has saved millions of lives.
At least so far, President Trump has managed to bring along even those conservative supporters who are skeptical of foreign interventions.
The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought.
A Times reporter covering the disability community set out to explore a dark moment in history, and found a man looking for a brother he never knew.
Concerns about the affordability of education, housing, health care, having a family and retirement are driving economic anxieties, a New York Times/Siena poll found.
Jennifer Mnookin has led the flagship campus of the state university system since 2022.
Readers respond to a guest essay by a student at Harvard. Also: Our phone choices; falling behind China on energy.
If illiberalism is the problem, what is the cure?
We asked voters to describe their emotions about President Trump’s second term so far. Most spoke of happiness or hostility.
He endured years of frustration before emerging as the N.F.L.’s most valuable player.
The University of Colorado, Boulder, denied liability in the civil rights lawsuit, which the couple filed after a comment about a dish that one of them was heating in an office microwave.
Puede que sean diminutas, pero las filoplumas permiten vuelos de miles de kilómetros sin escalas.
While roughly half of voters support President Trump’s handling of the border between the United States and Mexico, a sizable majority says that ICE’s tactics have “gone too far.”
Documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday include dossiers that investigators prepared on pro-Palestinian student activists before they were targeted for deportation.
One year later, the second Trump coalition has come apart, a Times/Siena poll finds.
Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena poll of 1,625 registered voters conducted from Jan. 12 to 17, 2026.
Two different nursing school programs in Ohio offer a glimpse into what may happen when federal student borrowing has limits.
Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena poll of 1,625 registered voters conducted from Jan. 12 to 17, 2026.
A legal historian, she broke a gender barrier as the first woman to lead an Ivy League law school, serving as dean of Columbia Law from 1986 to 1991.
Varios sondeos muestran que la mayoría de los latinoamericanos encuestados respaldaron la intervención.
Several polls show that a majority of Latin Americans who were questioned endorsed the intervention, suggesting a shift, at least for now, from ideology to pragmatism.
Donald J. Trump has unleashed the power of the presidency against American colleges, with mixed results.
The federal government has sued the University of Pennsylvania for information on its Jewish employees. The university said the request recalls a “frightening” history.
For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home.
Three other rhesus monkeys were still on the loose as of Wednesday after the truck carrying them rolled over on a highway in Mississippi, law enforcement officials said.
The vaccines are proven to help protect pregnant women and their babies. But regulatory chaos and mixed messaging have made for a confusing landscape.
President Trump has used his position of authority to dole out flawed medical advice dating back to his first term, when he mused about injecting bleach to kill off the coronavirus.
The agency’s fall recommendations underscore the goals of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to limit access to the vaccines, which he has long opposed.
Politicians used to care how much students learn. Now, to find a defense of educational excellence, we have to look beyond politics.
El fármaco se ha convertido en una especie de símbolo de resistencia a lo que algunos en el movimiento MAGA describen como una élite corrupta.
Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.
Dozens of medical and scientific studies are ending or at risk of ending, leaving researchers scrambling to find alternative funding.
The society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch back before the Gold Rush.
Readers respond to a guest essay by a recent college graduate. Also: New York City’s new outdoor dining program; how immigrants built America.
A substantial number of Republican voters are losing faith in science.
Millions of people are overdue on their federal loans or still have them paused — and court rulings keep upending collection efforts.
Two new studies suggest that the largest single federal investment in U.S. schools improved student test scores, but only modestly.
We asked voters for the one thing they remembered most about the Trump era. Few of them cited major events like the pandemic and Jan. 6.
According to a think tank’s analysis, another private college would attract the young talent that helps the city’s economy.
Two readers call for more federal funding for care of the sick and the elderly. Also: Data on drivers; Covid lessons; diversity in college admissions.
People with long Covid symptoms scored slightly lower on a cognitive test than people who had recovered. But long Covid patients who eventually got better scored as well as those whose symptoms did not last long.
In the Panamanian rainforest, scientists found the first known plant species to transform decaying tissue into a new source of nutrients.
Officials said some services would be transferred from University Hospital at Downstate to nearby facilities, and others, including primary care, could be expanded.
A new study found that California schools got positive results from a targeted investment in the science of reading — even with the challenges of pandemic recovery.
The surge in offerings is a response to the pandemic, which revealed glaring income inequality, as well as inflation and the resumption of student loan payments, an expert said.
Scientists doing “gain-of-function” research said that heightened fears of lab leaks are stalling studies that could thwart the next pandemic virus.
Readers react to a guest essay by educators at Stanford. Also: The new Senate dress code; Ron DeSantis and vaccines.
Readers discuss the decline in theater subscribers after the pandemic. Also: Northern Ireland; food allergies; a Covid playmate; anti-China bias.