The firm suggested the former Bard president’s email to Jeffrey Epstein about a young woman may have been fake. Congressional Democrats who publicized the message disagree.
In today’s Backstory, the new Holmes film takes issue with our profile, Nikole Hannah-Jones unpacks her viral essay and a professor shares why he thinks we apply “conservative” and “liberal” labels inconsistently.
We look at findings from our new poll.
We look at how Title IX keeps changing.
The Trump administration’s plan to supercharge scientific discovery.
Online right-wingers are doxxing and smearing the accuser in the Cornell rape case, in tactics that reek of desperation.
From Barack Obama to Donald Trump, ideology has infused the interpretation of the federal law banning sex discrimination on college campuses.
Likely voters favored Democratic candidates over Republicans by 11 percentage points in their congressional district, a New York Times/Siena poll found.
The map favors Republicans, but cracks in their base are leaving them vulnerable in defending House and Senate control.
Gov. Kathy Hochul appears to be maintaining a comfortable lead over her Republican challenger, Bruce Blakeman, in her re-election bid in New York.
Former employees of Christianity Today say new leadership has been pushing back on independent journalism. About half of its staff members have left or been laid off over 14 months.
We can prepare young women for the real world without repressing their liberty.
Results of a New York Times/Siena poll conducted among 3,494 voters from Oct. 12 to 19, 2026.
Results of a New York Times/Siena poll conducted among 3,494 voters from Oct. 12 to 19, 2026.
Results of a New York Times/Siena poll conducted among 3,494 voters from Oct. 12 to 19, 2026.
In a letter, the former student said she felt “unsupported” after hearing about an exchange between the school president and her sorority sister. Officials disputed her account of the conversation.
Readers respond to articles about the crisis at Cornell and what it says about our society. Also: Voters vs. oligarchs.
We look at how the teams are stacking up midseason.
Why do men in groups behave this way?
The latest weapon is a machine that shoots carbon dioxide into rats’ burrows. “They fall asleep — permanently,” a parks official said.
Mr. Khalil had recently graduated from Columbia when he was arrested by ICE agents and became the face of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
The court’s decision to review an admissions policy for selective middle school programs in Maryland follows its rejection of affirmative action in higher education.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will not pay any financial penalties but agreed to abide by the Trump administration’s views on diversity and other matters.
We take a look at a growing movement.
Early voting in Texas, where the outcome of the Senate race could determine which party controls the chamber, will run through Oct. 30.
New York City’s public university cannot exist on tax dollars and tuition alone, its chancellor says.
The moratorium is among the safety measures that the university put in place following the uproar over a former student’s sexual assault lawsuit.
Unless we can regenerate the depth of the theological tradition alongside the depth of spiritual transformation, our churches deserve to be empty.
Students come in with noble intentions and leave with flawed expertise.
Campus rape investigations are often riddled with problems — but eliminating them would be much worse.
While the powerful board appeared to back campus administration, some students protested against the backdrop of homecoming weekend.
David Sabatini, once a prominent scientist at M.I.T., sued a former colleague who accused him of inappropriate behavior. A jury found in his favor.
The cultural historian Joseph Sciorra, who has died, helped bring “a fieldworker’s eye and an archivist’s discipline” to his studies of Italian American culture.
The Fields Medalist Terence Tao is on the front lines of a debate about artificial intelligence and the future of his field.
The student was attending the Fashion Institute of Technology, when a man, according to prosecutors, provided her and her roommate with fentanyl in a dorm room.
Plus, young voters, Parisian schools and a lot of math.
With control of the Senate at stake, Mara Gay traveled to this Texas border region to hear from voters.
A fellow college president warned that the blowback from my decision would end my presidency. Instead, it produced some extraordinary conversations.
In an interview with a right-wing influencer, the new White House press secretary also described the harried process that led to her hiring.
In our first edition of The Backstory, a new newsletter about Times journalism, we’re diving into coverage of a rape allegation and talking to a critic who says we’re not tough enough on Trump.
The victim was shot once in the head in the early 1980s, the authorities said, and was identified after family members from Arkansas could provide a DNA match.
The president argued this week that replacing him would be a mistake.
The Pacific Ocean is seeing more storms, and stronger storms, than usual. Here’s what’s going on (and how it all traces back to El Niño).
The stock market has boosted Harvard’s wealth. But as federal funding slumps, the school is seeking corporate sponsors to underwrite research.
Readers respond to Opinion guest essays about Cornell, sexual assault, consent and fraternities. Also: After suicide; music in schools.
Sports insiders lay down the law in a rule-bending moment for the industry.
Katie Zacharia told The New York Times that the confusion over her legal credentials was the result of one big misunderstanding.
Ahead of a vote on a resolution of no confidence in Michael I. Kotlikoff, some faculty members said they were not swayed by steps he announced on Tuesday, including banning fraternity parties.
Schools under scrutiny as Cornell is often follow a sort of public relations playbook, adding rules, hiring outside investigators and sometimes making leadership changes.
The University of Chicago said the suspect and victim were not students at the school. But the accusation drew scrutiny after revelations of a reported gang rape at Cornell University in New York.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that in exchange for a $30 million city investment, New York would get 15 percent of proceeds from projects developed in the quantum technology lab.
What really happened in that Brooklyn store?
Michael Kotlikoff addressed concerns over the university’s handling of a former student’s claims that she was gang-raped at a fraternity party.
In an interview with The New York Times, Michael Kotlikoff addressed his administration’s handling of sexual assault accusations brought by a former student.
Byron Donalds, the Republican nominee for governor, is working to win over Black voters who usually support Democrats as his party girds for the possibility of low turnout.
Artificial intelligence is now capable of helping solve some of mathematics’ most famous open problems. Steven Strogatz, a math professor at Cornell, joins Rachel Abrams on “The Daily” to talk about what happens when A.I. comes not just for your job, but for your purpose.
The expansive changes to campus life come in the wake of the national uproar caused by allegations of a gang rape at a fraternity house.
We look at an experimental program.
In the span of just a few months, A.I. systems have solved some of the biggest outstanding problems in math — adding mathematicians to the list of those terrified of losing their job to the technology.
A U.S. campus lawsuit points to a global pattern: how male impunity, silence and institutional failure enable sexual violence.
If my face and name were not my own, who was I?
In “The Best Kind of American,” Kim Ghattas shows what an American’s assassination in Lebanon four decades ago reveals about chaos in the Middle East.
Cephalopods are masters of camouflage. Scientists want to decipher how the process works in the brain.
On the most traumatic night in a young woman’s life, a good man could not be found.