Stephen A. Schwarzman, the leader of the Blackstone Group, one of the world’s largest investment firms, has taken a direct role in Harvard’s negotiations with the White House.
A pharmacologist, she was certain Elizabeth Holmes’s blood-testing idea would fail, and spoke up about it. At first, few listened.
The conservative ideas behind the Trump administration’s “compact” for universities were developed in part by Marc Rowan, a wealthy financier who has sought to shape higher education.
The suit argues that the new fee would harm schools, hospitals, churches and small businesses across the country.
As our diagnostic categories expand to include ever milder versions of disease, researchers propose that the act of naming a malady can itself bring relief.
Whether you have Jimmy Buffett on your mind or the urge to take a class or two, we’ve got a community for you.
Duke University kept a low profile. But it is the alma mater of Stephen Miller, a top Trump official who often criticized the school while he was a student.
The Trump administration gave nine universities a set of terms to follow for better access to federal funds. At least one said it wanted to sign up, but some students wanted college officials to say no.
Trump officials want universities to sign on to conservative priorities to get special treatment. Some in higher education say agreeing would end academic freedom.
There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.
She was among the last of a generation of activists and lawyers who weathered the Red Scare, and then helped train a new cohort in the decades that followed.
The vaccines are proven to help protect pregnant women and their babies. But regulatory chaos and mixed messaging have made for a confusing landscape.
A new Times/Siena survey shows a significant shift among voters, as their concerns about the health of the political system overtake other issues.
Silas’s future seemed bright except for at least one detail. He didn’t have a car.
Demands sent to nine top schools included pledging to freeze tuition for five years and to commit to strict definitions of gender.
In letters to consultants and the College Board, House and Senate Judiciary leaders invoked antitrust law and asked how student data feeds pricing algorithms.
Despite a surge in new campus chapters, there is a void left by Charlie Kirk’s murder that has implications for the entire MAGA movement.
El caso muestra cómo Indiana ha acelerado la represión contra quien haya criticado al activista de derecha tras su muerte.
Trump is known for saying a lot of things that he can’t or won’t back up. This time, the threats are real.
Una mayoría de los votantes estadounidenses se opone ahora a enviar más ayuda económica y militar a Israel, un giro sorprendente en la opinión pública desde los ataques del 7 de octubre de 2023.
A federal appeals court heard arguments over whether noncitizens subject to deportation have the right to challenge their detentions using one of the oldest legal precepts.
The agreement, if finalized, would follow months of grappling over federal dollars as the Trump administration pressured the university in its broader push to reshape higher education.
The Sept. 19 letter came days before the Department of Health and Human Services started the process of cutting off federal funds to the university.
Readers respond to an editorial about President Trump’s troubling use of executive power in the Venezuelan boat strikes. Also: Social Security woes; the importance of Black colleges.
We look at the plan and American public opinion polls on the war.
A new Times/Siena survey shows the president retaining the support of nine out of 10 G.O.P. voters, even as the government races toward a shutdown on Wednesday.
President Trump has not revealed any concrete plans for a future library, but his son and others have been scouting possible sites in South Florida for months.
The White House and Harvard University have struggled to negotiate an end to their monthslong dispute over the administration’s campaign to expunge “woke” ideology from campuses.
A majority of American voters now oppose sending additional economic and military aid to Israel, a stunning reversal in public opinion since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.
Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena poll of 1,313 registered voters conducted from Sept. 22 to 27, 2025.
Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena poll of 1,313 registered voters conducted from Sept. 22 to 27, 2025.
Abraham Chabon was arrested after a woman accused him of choking and hitting her while sexually assaulting her. He still faces a count of strangulation, and a prosecutor said that the investigation continues.
The authorities say Trey Reed took his own life on his college campus, but in a nation ready to jump to judgment and in a state with its history of racial violence, that conclusion has not ended the story.
Eric Adams started with strong support among Black and working-class voters. By the time he dropped out, his re-election effort was polling below 10 percent.
A look at how one state has turbocharged the crackdown on anyone who has criticized Charlie Kirk after his death.
A campus movement aims to find out.
Readers discuss artificial intelligence and the roles of students and parents. Also: Infants and screens; prizes for the president.
After pioneering the study of Chinese law in America, he was among the first foreigners to practice commercial law in China, and spoke out about human rights.
A close read of some of Mr. Kirk’s most viral exchanges shows an approach that was polished and skillful — if not always fair.
Hoping to draw more visitors to Rowan Oak, Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Miss., a group helped refurbish its piano.
The University of California, one of the Trump administration’s biggest targets so far, is in an uproar over how to respond to the president’s attacks. So is the rest of higher education.
The university system said faculty must comply with President Trump’s order recognizing only two genders, possibly a first for a major public institution of higher education.
It’s about fostering principled engagement across ideological lines.
Are universities suffering from “Meghan Markle syndrome”? In this episode of “Interesting Times,” Ross talks to May Mailman, the lawyer on the front lines of the Trump administration’s war on elite universities, about why they’re cracking down on the “glorification of victimhood” in higher education.
Universities have an ideology problem, at least according to the Trump administration, and May Mailman is here to fix it. On “Interesting Times,” Mailman, the architect behind President Trump’s culture war on liberal education, explains the levers of power she and her colleagues can pull to usher in their vision.
Tylenol’s parent company, Kenvue, said an eight-year-old social media post was “being taken out of context” as the Trump administration warns pregnant women not to take the drug.
Ending the “culture of victimhood” on campus.
We’re asking because the reading scores of American 12th graders are at record lows.
El gobierno de Trump ha citado la pericia de Andrea Baccarelli para advertir contra el uso del paracetamol —el principio activo del Tylenol— en el embarazo, basándose en una relación no demostrada con el autismo.
A report said DNA collected at checkpoints from about 2,000 Americans, mostly during the Biden administration, was sent to an F.B.I. database. Hundreds were not charged.
El presidente Trump dijo el lunes que el consumo de Tylenol durante el embarazo podría provocar autismo, una afirmación que no está demostrada.
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 Trump administration has cited Dr. Andrea Baccarelli’s expertise to warn against using acetaminophen — the active ingredient in Tylenol — in pregnancy, based on an unproven autism link.
The ruling is a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit over the Trump administration’s termination of hundreds of millions of research grants to the California university.
Readers, including the author Jhumpa Lahiri, respond to the Barnard president’s guest essay about speakers at universities. Also: The benefits of trees.
The database billionaire and his son, David, are Trump favorites. The family could soon control an empire that includes CBS, Paramount, Warner, CNN and a piece of TikTok.
Bennett Foddy’s breakthrough gave players a hammer to climb a mountain of trash. In his newest video game, every step is an adventure.
But despite it all, very little changed on the lists many parents and prospective students turn to as admissions season kicks off.
President Trump said on Monday that Tylenol use during pregnancy could lead to autism, a claim that is unproven.
El presidente Trump está rehaciendo Estados Unidos a su imagen: tosco, duro, innecesariamente cruel.
A 4.3-magnitude earthquake was strong enough to rattle nerves in the middle of the night, especially in the heavily populated East Bay where it was centered.
Conservative efforts to call out and punish educators over liberal ideas have grown for years, led in part by Charlie Kirk himself.
The frantic competition that we’ve normalized is based on a lie about what makes a college education truly valuable.
In an interview, the wife of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk said she had implored him to wear a bulletproof vest. But she sees divine work in his death.
This is one of those moments in history.
Claudine Gay has rarely spoken out since she was forced to resign, but she recently said that Harvard should not cave to Trump administration demands, including a $500 million payment.
Marijuana during pregnancy is linked to poor birth outcomes and developmental delays in children, a leading medical society advised.
Tutoring Olympians, he created a simple workout formula that was said to produce the best results with the least effort, earning accolades across the running world.
More than 600 books, many of them written by women, are being purged, based on a contention that they conflict with Sharia principles.
The administration’s latest attack on the nation’s oldest university comes as negotiations stall for a settlement to restore billions in frozen federal research funds.
The New York Times/Siena poll asked “Never Mamdani” and “Never Cuomo” voters to explain their reasoning. See their responses.
The Common Data Set can help prospective students know how much aid they could get to pay for college. Why don’t all schools provide it?
The university had been roiled over a student who filmed herself arguing with the instructor of a children’s literature course that recognized more than two genders.
As the Jesuit leader in Central America, he pushed for justice when six priests were shot to death in the midst of El Salvador’s civil war.
Mr. Khalil is not in imminent danger of deportation, but his situation has grown more dire as the Trump administration continues its efforts to remove him from the country.
Members of high school chapters of Turning Point USA mourned a conservative power broker who took them, and their political might, seriously.
The 19-year-old sophomore has attracted widespread public interest since he enrolled at the university’s main campus in Manhattan last year.
Utah Valley University burst into the nation’s conscience when Charlie Kirk was slain there. Its students resumed classes Wednesday, most trying to get on with their busy lives.
A witness found the suspect washing her hands in a room spattered with blood in a nursing home in Coney Island, Brooklyn, the authorities said.
An essay series led by the archivist whom President Trump fired will feature voices from across the political spectrum, including those of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
The Trump administration ratcheted up demands on the university system over the summer.
As a college leader, I know better than most that we must encourage controversial speakers, not silence them.
What the University of Chicago might have taught Charlie Kirk — and the rest of us.
Public and private entities have been criticized over decisions to honor the right-wing activist, or their choice not to.
Heat waves and flooding could cost the European Union $50 billion in damage to buildings and crops as well as a loss of productivity, a new study found.
War crime investigators at Yale discovered a program of re-education and military and police training that was larger than estimated earlier.
The centennial of Robert Owens, a composer who worked abroad and assimilated into German culture, is being celebrated with a festival in Nebraska.
The Yale law professor Justin Driver considers the legal arguments for and against the policy, as well as alternative ways to ensure diversity on campuses.
Arnold Schwarzenegger issued his first public rebuke since Gov. Gavin Newsom placed a gerrymander plan on the ballot.
Though some researchers believe it should be labeled endemic in the United States, most Americans don’t need to worry about getting sick.
The Trump administration is cutting money from programs that have supported minority students, including at other universities.
An archaeologist, he discovered and analyzed the residue of beverages imbibed by long-vanished civilizations and then figured out how to recreate them.
America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.
We’ve fully stepped into a different historical moment: the age of brain-poisoning meme politics.
Colleges are often the setting, and the target, of the nation’s most heated politics. Charlie Kirk’s work on campuses was one factor.
The University of California, Berkeley, told around 160 people that their names were in documents related to antisemitism complaints that were demanded by the Trump administration.
Democrats are calling for the creation of a state equivalent of the National Institutes of Health, but first state lawmakers and then voters would need to approve it.
See how the gunman who shot and killed Charlie Kirk evaded detection for hours, climbed a roof amid a crowd and quickly escaped after the shooting.
The New York Times examined video footage to better understand what was said during Mr. Kirk’s event at Utah Valley University.
It is usually the job of a president to unify the nation in moments of rupture and sorrow. But President Trump has led his supporters in doling out blame.
Gov. Spencer Cox, Republican of Utah, identified the suspect Tyler Robinson. Police arrested the 22-year-old about 250 miles from the Utah Valley University campus, where Charlie Kirk was fatally shot.
We Don’t Want Echo Chambers
Readers discuss the damage to America’s parks. Also: Racial profiling in immigrant sweeps; the 9/11 memorial; phones in the classroom.
Tras la difusión de las imágenes del asesinato de Kirk, millones de personas han visto el breve intercambio entre el activista político de derecha y un “tiktoker” liberal.
El gobernador de Utah, Spencer Cox, dijo que un familiar del sospechoso, Tyler Robinson, ayudó a entregarlo a las autoridades después de que Robinson indicara que había llevado a cabo el asesinato.
Several historically Black colleges and universities canceled classes and events on Friday after a series of threats. The F.B.I. said the calls were hoaxes.
As an Israeli professor began to speak, some attendees appeared to switch on their cameras and microphones and started yelling. Instead of their faces, they showed disturbing images.
The F.B.I. shared surveillance video of a man running across a roof near where Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at Utah Valley University.
The comments at a Duke University event this week have rankled student activists, who said they fostered a hostile environment on campus.
Las imágenes muestran a un hombre con una gorra de béisbol, gafas de sol oscuras y una camiseta negra de manga larga con una imagen que parece incluir, en parte, un dibujo de la bandera estadounidense.
The problem of protecting campus speakers with polarizing opinions has confounded universities around the country in recent years.
The grainy images show a man wearing a baseball cap, dark sunglasses and a black long-sleeve shirt with an image on it that appears to include, in part, a picture of the American flag.
La gente entre la multitud dijo que el disparo no fue muy fuerte y que no todos se dieron cuenta inmediatamente de lo que ocurría.
Kirk, de 31 años, fundador de un grupo activista juvenil de derecha, recibió un disparo mientras pronunciaba un discurso en la Universidad de Utah Valley.
The conservative activist had recently spoken at conferences in Asia. His message also resonated in Europe, and especially Britain, which has seen a rise in right-wing ideology.
Many winners of the annual Lasker Awards have gone on to win a Nobel Prize in medicine or other fields.
An assassin took aim at the American experiment itself.
Mr. Kirk, 31, the founder of a right-wing youth activist group, was shot while speaking at the university on Wednesday.
A mix of sympathy and blame proliferated in messages posted from figures across the political spectrum.
This is a moment to turn down the volume and reflect on our political culture.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the money supported programs that the administration believes unfairly support minority students.
Maps and photos show how the shooting that killed Charlie Kirk on a university campus in Utah unfolded.
Some politicians called for prayers, while some others immediately cast blame.
Witnesses in the crowd said that the shot was not very loud and that not everyone had immediately realized what was happening.
Kirk, un aliado cercano del presidente Trump, recibió un disparo en el cuello mientras hablaba en un campus universitario.
After a court victory, Harvard researchers were told some grants were being restored. But the battle over whether the government can halt the money is probably not over.
Chakaia Booker discusses printmaking and evolving old patterns.
Two administrators also lost their posts at Texas A&M, an example of how Republican policies meant to curb liberal ideas are reaching into university classrooms.
More New Yorkers say their sympathies lie with Palestinians rather than Israel in the long-running conflict in Gaza, according to a New York Times/Siena poll.
Israel and Iraq confirmed the release of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli graduate student at Princeton who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023 by the militant group Kataib Hezbollah.
He investigated which city of Cuban immigrants might have created the celebrated sandwich, Tampa or Miami. His finding was not altogether surprising.
Far more shows on streaming services are being created by women, a new study found. That number on broadcast networks, though, remained stagnant.
The Times/Siena poll shows Mamdani would have an edge among likely voters, but Cuomo would lead among all registered voters.
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee in the New York City mayoral race, is way ahead of his three rivals, but his lead would diminish considerably if the field shrank to a two-man race.
Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll of 1,284 registered voters in New York City conducted from Sept. 2 to 6, 2025.
Zohran Mamdani leads in the New York City mayoral race, with 46 percent among the likely electorate, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted from Sept. 2 to 6, 2025.
Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll of 1,284 registered voters in New York City conducted from Sept. 2 to 6, 2025.
Harold Rashad Dabney III was arrested Sunday on two counts of capital murder in the death of Dr. Julie Schnuelle, 59, a veterinarian and mother whose body was found in a dog park on Saturday.
We’ve traveled far beyond political spin.
As China threatens to overtake U.S. leadership in science and technology, America has responded by sabotaging its own engines of progress.
No need to travel to the countryside for leaf peeping. Here’s a collection of North American urban walks that will immerse you in the colors of fall.
The group was to bestow the Sylvanus Thayer Award on the actor, but it said it was canceling the event to focus on preparing academy cadets for the future.
He was only 37 when he made a discovery that challenged the existing tenets of biology and led to an understanding of retroviruses and viruses, including H.I.V.,
Portuguese authorities released a highly anticipated preliminary report into the disaster, which killed 16 people this week.
The author and podcaster wants to apply her old ideas about vulnerability and empathy to the workplace.
One major reason is said to be an emerging divide within the administration over whether the current framework is too favorable to Harvard.
Gregory Washington, George Mason’s first Black president, runs a university that prizes diversity. That has made him a target of the Trump administration.
A recent ruling against the Trump administration’s federal funding cuts was a temporary win for Harvard. But a dozen other institutions already struck deals with the government involving millions of dollars in payments and commitments to prioritize causes championed by the president.
He and his classmates from a historically Black college in Greensboro, N.C., desegregated a Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960, inspiring similar protests across the nation.