Voters think President Trump has gone too far in wielding his power. They see the start of his term as “scary” and “chaotic.” And while it’s still early, they disapprove of his handling of many issues.
It’s not easy to burn this much good will so fast, and it doesn’t usually get any easier from here.
Skepticism has grown of his efforts to expand his authority and of his handling of issues long seen as strengths for him, including the economy and immigration.
Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena College poll of 913 registered voters conducted from April 21 to 24, 2025.
Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena College poll of 913 registered voters conducted from April 21 to 24, 2025.
La materia “Bad Bunny: estética y política musical” llega cuando las universidades están sometidas a la presión del gobierno para que se replanteen y eliminen lo que podrían considerarse intentos de diversidad, equidad e inclusión.
We explain the administration’s cuts to research.
Does the world’s richest university have enough money to survive a battle with the most powerful man in the world? Alan Blinder, a national correspondent for The New York Times who covers education, describes Harvard’s resources and the scientific and medical research at stake.
Amherst was known for its diverse student population. Now it is trying to save that legacy without violating the law.
Researchers are just beginning to understand how microplastics might be affecting human health. A Reporter visited a lab to observe some of the work.
With a new fall offering, Yale becomes the latest university to offer a course on the cultural impact of the Puerto Rican star.
Una nueva investigación socava la opinión tradicional de que Shakespeare fue un marido distante y negligente con su mujer, Anne Hathaway.
Readers, including some with autism, rebut Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s statements. Also: President Trump vs. universities; Emanuel Ax’s plea.
Even before the presidential election, the school began preparing for Donald Trump’s potential return to power. Now faculty members are resigning in protest.
Demonstrators waving Palestinian and Israeli flags condemned the appearance of Itamar Ben-Gvir, the national security minister who has been widely criticized for his extreme views.
El índice de aprobación del presidente de Estados Unidos ha bajado hasta el 45 por ciento, en comparación con el 52 por ciento que tenía una semana después de su toma de posesión.
Adding words to our chatbot can apparently cost tens of millions of dollars. But some fear the cost of not saying please or thank you could be higher.
Adding words to our chatbot can apparently cost tens of millions of dollars. But some fear the cost of not saying please or thank you could be higher.
New research undermines the traditional view that Shakespeare was a distant, neglectful husband to his wife, Anne.
La tendencia que dominó las redes sociales hace una década —y recaudó millones para la investigación de la ELA— ha renacido como vehículo para concienciar sobre la salud mental.
The company cited the threat that online gambling posed to its profits in its decision to bow out of the competition for one of three casino licenses around New York City.
The R&B singer’s outspoken support for Palestinians had drawn criticism on the campus and beyond. Some students expressed disappointment at the cancellation.
It was the latest move by President Trump in his effort to shift the ideological tilt of the higher education system as he battles elite universities.
A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.
He did the cable network’s play-by-play for college basketball, football and baseball games, but his most important assignment was “Sunday Night Football.”
President Trump’s approval rating has sunk to about 45 percent, down from 52 percent one week after he took office.
The publication is now trying to find a successful business model without its top editor, who was abruptly fired last week.
More than 20 vehicles in a town on Cape Ann, Mass., have been damaged by a woodpecker in mating season. “You still see him out here,” one resident said. “Peck, peck, peck, peck.”
People like the idea of cutting government waste. But they dislike Mr. Musk, and they’re down on the Department of Government Efficiency.
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
Harvard’s lawyers suggest the administration was sloppy when it froze billions in federal funding. A mundane but crucial law is essential to the university’s case against the government.
The trend that dominated social media a decade ago — and raised millions for A.L.S. research — has been reborn as a vehicle to raise mental health awareness.
Harvard frantically tried to avoid a showdown with the Trump administration. Now many of its big donors are pushing the university’s leaders to back down and renew talks with the White House.
The statement came a day after Harvard University sued the administration over its decision to freeze billions of dollars in federal funding, following the school’s refusal to submit to a list of demands.
La demanda de Harvard se produce después de que el gobierno de EE. UU. intentara obligar a la universidad a cumplir una lista de exigencias mediante el recorte de miles de millones en fondos federales que recibe la institución.
The book by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the subject of exhibitions in New York, Minnesota, New Jersey and South Carolina.
In an announcement this week, the department warned that millions of borrowers could be referred to debt collectors and see deductions from their paychecks.
The president is trying to pick off institutions (and people) one by one.
The world’s richest university may have enough money to survive a battle with the most powerful man in the world. But if Trump wins, Harvard won’t be the same.
En el primer ensayo clínico de este tipo, un chatbot de IA dio alivio a los síntomas de salud mental de los participantes. La tecnología podría ayudar algún día a resolver la escasez de terapeutas.
Demonstrators sought the release of Mohsen Mahdawi and Mahmoud Khalil, who organized pro-Palestinian protests and have been taken into ICE custody.
A cluster of evangelical groups in the state is pushing for environmental action. Leaders say they’re following the biblical mandate to care for creation.
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
A leading sociologist, he explored American society up close — living in a Levittown at one point — to gain insight into issues of race, class, the media and even the Yankees.
Harvard’s lawsuit comes after the administration sought to force the university to comply with a list of demands by cutting billions in federal funding the school receives.
In 1999 Ann Craven lost nearly everything in a studio fire. Since then, she has made “revisitation” paintings. Next month, these works will be shown across Maine.
“Nice university you got there. Shame if something happened to it.”
Blaire Fleming was a little-known college player. Then she suddenly became a symbol of injustice — to both sides of the controversy.
The draft executive order would eliminate Africa operations and shut down bureaus working on democracy, human rights and refugee issues.
The immigration crackdown has come to America’s campuses.
Students could bypass the United States for friendlier countries as the Trump administration attacks universities and revokes visas. Their loss could hurt schools and the economy.
A suit challenges the Trump administration’s campaign in four states and Puerto Rico, and seeks the reinstatement of terminated student visas.
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
The legal underpinnings of the administration’s broadsides against universities and schools stretch precedents and cut corners.
His biological mother said in an interview on Friday that she was bewildered by the attack, and had been against the presence of firearms in her son’s life.
Cedric Lodge stole organs from cadavers that had been donated for medical research, prosecutors said. The university fired him in 2023.
For decades, universities got billions in federal dollars for research. The relationship was mutually beneficial, until President Trump decided it wasn’t.
Sewell Chan, who started as executive editor of the publication in September, said his firing after several staff complaints was “baffling.”
The judge, a conservative Reagan appointee, wrote a blistering opinion accusing the administration of failing to give a man wrongly deported to El Salvador any semblance of due process.
Stepping up its pressure campaign, the Education Department accused the university of failing to report large foreign gifts as required by law. Harvard disputed the claim.
Plus, meat is making a comeback.
Since the post-Nixon era, the Internal Revenue Service has had a degree of independence from the White House. President Trump is seeking to change that.
Two people were killed and six others were injured when a 20-year-old gunman opened fire on campus on Thursday. Court records show the suspect had a chaotic upbringing.
The suspect, a 20-year-old student at the university, was the stepson of a local sheriff’s deputy and espoused far-right views, according to the authorities, court records and classmates.
Students on Thursday protested the president’s attacks on Harvard, but at town hall meetings, defiance mixed with uncertainty as faculty members examined the toll of the White House’s actions.
The Trump administration said it would take $2.2 billion in research funds from the school. Some small donors are doing their best to make up for the shortfall.
Students evacuated after an active shooter opened fire near the university’s student union building on Thursday. Officials identified the shooter as a 20-year-old student at the university and son of a county sheriff’s deputy.
Demonstrators rallied on Columbia’s campus and marched in Manhattan, three days after Mohsen Mahdawi was detained by immigration officials after arriving for a U.S. citizenship appointment.
For some, the sight of law enforcement officers in tactical gear on Thursday, sweeping campus for a gunman, was familiar.
The campus, where a gunman killed two people on Thursday, experienced another shooting over a decade ago that left three people injured.
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.
The New York Times is looking to hear from students who are considering attending schools abroad because of Trump administration policies.
Find common ground with President Trump, or resist? Also: Medical decisions; climate research cuts; deep sea mining risks; a gift to Harvard.
La medida supondría una importante escalada en los intentos del gobierno de Trump de acabar con el apoyo federal a la principal universidad de investigación de Estados Unidos.
The police identified the gunman as a 20-year-old student who is the son of a Leon County sheriff’s deputy. Neither of the slain victims was a student at the university.
In a letter sent to the university on Wednesday, Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, demanded “relevant information” regarding each student visa holder at Harvard who has been involved with “known illegal” or “dangerous” activity.
The Trump administration said Harvard must share detailed records about its foreign students, an escalation in the administration’s fight against prominent American schools.
The university, like many colleges and charities, is exempt from property and federal income taxes, saving it billions of dollars. President Trump has questioned whether it should enjoy that status.
Se necesitan más estudios para determinar si K2-18b, que orbita alrededor de una estrella situada a 120 años luz, está habitado, o incluso es habitable.
The move would be a major escalation of the Trump administration’s attempts to choke off federal money and support for the leading research university.
Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested at a citizenship interview in Vermont. He had spent a decade trying to understand the conflict that shaped his life, his supporters say.
Researchers who have lost funds warned of long-term repercussions, but several said their school should still refuse to comply with the federal government.
In a hint of a shift in strategy, some of the country’s most powerful institutions have started choosing to resist.
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
Trump’s authoritarian actions are vandalizing the American project.
El gobierno de EE. UU. congelará más de 2000 millones de dólares en fondos federales porque Harvard se negó a cumplir una lista de exigencias. Las autoridades de la universidad consideraron que valía la pena el riesgo.
With his own research group and as a professor at Queens College, he plumbed raw data for often-surprising insights about the way the country was changing.
Responses to a guest essay by Michael S. Roth, the president of Wesleyan University. Also: Older workers and brain health; cattle and pain.
The university’s willingness to stand up to the Trump administration can be a model.
Where were these voices when the university was under assault from the Trump administration?
The Trump administration will freeze over $2 billion in federal funds because Harvard refused to comply with a list of demands. Harvard leaders believed saying no was worth the risk.
President Trump is trying to influence which colleges receive federal financial support, a practice that began around the time of World War II.
Mohsen Mahdawi, who led Columbia protests, engaged in activities that could threaten attempts to end the war in Gaza, a memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
In the first clinical trial of its kind, an A.I. chatbot eased mental health symptoms among participants. The technology may someday help solve the provider shortage.
A message from the university’s acting president said that talks with the Trump administration were continuing as the White House is seeking to place the school under judicial oversight.
La emoción por la respuesta de la universidad al gobierno de Trump es una medida de lo bajo, y lo rápido, que han caído nuestras expectativas.
Readers discuss the case of the immigrant wrongly deported to El Salvador. Also: Harvard’s battle against President Trump.
El lunes, Harvard rechazó las exigencias del gobierno de Trump en materia de contratación, admisiones y currícula, lo cual ha animado a otras universidades de EE. UU.
Harvard has rejected an effort by the White House to exert more control over its programs. Federal law prohibits the president from telling the I.R.S. to conduct specific tax investigations.
As the founder of Woman’s Art Journal and the author of influential textbooks, she documented the work of many accomplished artists who had been ignored.
Mohsen Mahdawi, residente legal permanente, vive hace 10 años en Estados Unidos y fue detenido en Vermont. No ha sido acusado de ningún delito.
Funded by the maple industry, a researcher has exaggerated his findings to suggest that syrup could help prevent serious diseases.
Vice President JD Vance attempted to lift college football’s biggest prize, but dropped the base. Ohio State Buckeyes players secured the trophy.
But a fight with the nation’s oldest, richest and most elite university is a battle that President Trump and his powerful aide, Stephen Miller, want to have.
The vice president, a former senator from Ohio who graduated from Ohio State, joked about the mishap on social media.
Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident, has lived in the United States for 10 years and was arrested in Vermont. He has not been charged with a crime.
A letter sent to Harvard on Friday by the Trump administration demanded that the university make a series of policy changes in order to continue to receive federal funding.
Harvard University’s lawyers responded on Monday to the Trump Administration’s letter demanding a series of policy changes, saying the demands were unlawful and that Harvard would not comply.
Federal officials said they would freeze the money after Harvard said it would not submit to requests to overhaul hiring and report international students who break rules.
The opaque process, part of a strategy by conservatives to realign the liberal tilt of elite universities, has upended higher education.
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
Readers respond to a guest essay by Michael I. Kotlikoff, the president of Cornell University. Also: Fired in a quake zone.
The party, once the city’s largest opposition force, long championed a moderate approach. It ended up squeezed between a discontented populace and a repressive Beijing.
Parents who put money into 529 plans may find it tricky to find the right investment strategies while the stock market is in turmoil.
Paige Bueckers became a college sensation for her skill and her style. Now she’s about to join the W.N.B.A.’s growing constellation of stars.
The administration is reviewing about $9 billion in federal funding that the university receives.
More than two dozen are joining a legal effort to free a Tufts University student the Trump administration is trying to deport because of her pro-Palestinian views.
Los científicos lograron “un hito” al trazar la actividad y estructura de 200.000 células del cerebro de un ratón y sus 523 millones de conexiones.
Brandon Kazen-Maddox makes time for mud massages, meditation and aerial hoop adventures.
Las medidas del presidente Trump contra la migración han atrapado a Kseniia Petrova, una científica que huyó de Rusia tras protestar por la invasión de Ucrania. Fue detenida por transportar unas muestras de rana para su laboratorio.
To oblige an eager reporter, he invented a story about the holiday’s origin. He didn’t realize it would turn out to be his “Andy Warhol moment.”
The decision by a judge in Louisiana is an early victory for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, but a broader challenge is still being heard in federal court in Newark.
Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal.
President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.
Christopher Rufo has helped inspire Republican messaging and bills on hot-button issues.
Los investigadores de un laboratorio de Nuevo México calculan que en el cerebro humano puede haber el equivalente a cinco tapones de botella. Ahora intentan averiguar sus efectos.
Lauren Lockett and Jordan Miller went from Stanford friends to something more — but when she was ready to define the relationship, he wasn’t. Time apart brought them back together.
Prosecutors filed felony charges on Thursday against 12 protesters, nearly all with ties to Stanford University, for breaking into an administration building and occupying it in 2024.
Lawyers for the detained Columbia graduate said that the lack of substantive charges against him requires more information from the secretary of state. They acknowledge they are likely to fail.
The Trump administration is discussing asking a judge to enforce any deal it reaches with the school, which the White House says has not done enough to address antisemitism.
We owe the next generation some measure of solace.
The longtime activist and writer Sarah Schulman on why now is the time to stand up to people you oppose.
Lawmakers want the university to turn over all its records about Students for Justice in Palestine. At Northwestern University, two professors sued over a separate request.
The cuts to a Princeton University program come as the Trump administration has been reviewing an array of research grants related to global warming.
President Trump has set his sights on defunding colleges, singling out some of the world’s wealthiest schools in what critics say is an attack on academic freedom.
Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections.
Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
An acclaimed musical theater writer, he won for both his score and his book and later had a huge hit with “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”
Decenas de centros educativos, entre ellos la Universidad de California y Harvard, dijeron que el gobierno de Trump canceló visados a sus alumnos en los últimos días. Para muchos, las razones no están claras.
Readers respond to a critique of colleges by Greg Weiner, the president of Assumption University. Also: The rich and the rest.
In her new book, “The Ideological Brain,” the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod outlines what makes some people prone to rigid thinking.
Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Now they are trying to find out its effects.
Dozens of schools, including the University of California and Harvard, said the Trump administration ended the visas of their students in recent days. For many, the reasons are unclear.
Dr. Katrina Armstrong told a federal task force she could not remember details from the university’s report on antisemitism or her response to its recommendations.
Two significant programs that invested in research on diabetes, dementia, obesity and kidney disease have ended since the start of the Trump administration.