An acclaimed researcher is an expert at explaining complicated problems. Now she has to confront the most vexing question: What is happening to her?
Protests swept campuses after the war began. But tough discipline, pushed by Republicans, curbed a student movement that was one of the largest since the Vietnam War.
As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president’s power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent.
A principle is hollow if it’s not defended under pressure.
His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar. But sexual-harassment allegations ended his career.
Controllers missing work was widely cited as the reason the last shutdown came to an end. But that assumption might have been overblown, according to controllers, aviation safety experts and congressional aides.
The shootings at historically Black institutions occurred within about 24 hours of three other shootings across rural Mississippi that left at least eight people dead.
The Power Four schools should go their own way and give other sports a chance to shine.
The Trump administration offered nine universities benefits in exchange for signing an agreement to protect conservative voices, among other things. M.I.T. was the first to refuse.
The government should not use public funds to support a system that fails to serve the public good.
While former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo benefited from Mayor Eric Adams’s departure, Zohran Mamdani still enjoyed a sizable lead in the Quinnipiac University poll.
The Trump administration has sharply cut funding for scientific research and eliminated thousands of jobs. We spoke to scientists about the work that was lost.
El profesor Mark Bray se convirtió en blanco del odio de la derecha después del asesinato de Charlie Kirk. Cuando su información personal fue divulgada en línea, decidió irse a España; su vuelo fue cancelado abruptamente.
University leaders are wary of a new proposal from the Trump administration to impose far-reaching changes in higher education.
Shruthi Mahalingaiah, a Harvard researcher, investigated the fertility risks women face from air pollution. But her grant was canceled.
Historian Mark Bray was teaching courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university. Turning Point USA accused of him belonging to antifa, which he denies.
In a video post on social media, the country music superstar, who is 79, played down the recent health challenges that prompted her to delay her Las Vegas residency.
Defying scholarly norms, he took a hands-on approach to research. To study resilience, he visited the Crow Nation; to explore Freudian theory, he became a psychoanalyst.
As Mr. Mamdani seeks to reassure New York City he is open to compromise, his views on Israel and Palestinians have been the biggest exception.
Separately, in the administration’s first 200 days, only two of 98 Senate-confirmed appointees to the most senior jobs in government were Black.
An Israeli American student said he was assaulted during a protest. Two years later, Republicans continue to raise the episode in their campaign to force schools to punish the student protesters.
College students are meeting with “embedded” counselors in dorms and academic buildings, with promising results.
A Times/Siena survey shows that a majority of voters believe the Trump administration is deporting mostly the right people, even as a majority also say the process has been unfair.
The composer, who turns 90 this fall, has expanded the spectrum of sounds that instruments produce and that audiences can perceive.
People and institutions of civil society must coordinate against him.
Higher education leaders and public-school superintendents say they depend on skilled foreign workers to fill critical roles.
For hundreds of years, people who have lived near Seneca Lake in upstate New York have reported hearing loud booms coming from the water. No one is exactly sure why.
People gathered in remembrance of hostages held by Hamas and in protest of Israel’s destructive campaign in Gaza as negotiators discussed a possible agreement to end the war.
Según un informe, muchos alumnos no hacen las lecturas ni participan en clase. Ahora, los profesores intentan cambiar una cultura universitaria que, dicen, perjudica el rendimiento y reprime la expresión.
Readers respond to a guest essay about the broken process of college admissions. Also: What Taylor Swift taught us.
Today, we look at how Trump melds his politics with his role as head of the armed forces.
Scientists are searching for the secret in Doug Whitney’s biology that has protected him from dementia, hoping it could lead to ways to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s for many other people.
The episode initially raised concerns because it happened near a synagogue, but the police say it was unrelated to antisemitism.
Many students don’t do the reading and don’t speak up in class, according to a report. Now, professors are trying to change a campus culture they say hurts achievement and stifles speech.
The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.
El gobierno autoritario de Nicaragua ha empezado a retener a disidentes sin revelar su paradero ni reconocer su detención. Dos han aparecido muertos.
Hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science, she found ways to study rare radioactive isotopes and advanced the understanding of nuclear fission.
Nicaragua’s authoritarian government has begun holding dissidents without revealing their whereabouts or acknowledging their detention. Two have turned up dead.
Three museums designed by David Adjaye are opening this fall, but some institutions are downplaying his involvement.
Sam Terblanche was just 20 years old. Can a busy E.R. handle the hardest cases?
Un movimiento se propone averiguarlo.
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.
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.