Personal History March 24, 2014 In a childhood game, she would issue orders to her father. He’d answer, “I obey.”Photograph by Gasper Tringale On April 21, 1967, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Joseph Stalin, bounded down the stairs of a Swissair plane at Kennedy Airport. She was forty-one…

At one point in her new book, the NPR journalist Michaeleen Doucleff suggests that parents consider throwing out most of the toys they’ve bought for their kids. It’s an extreme piece of advice, but the way Doucleff frames it, it seems entirely sensible: “Kids spent two hundred thousand years without…

A Critic at Large Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a reason they won’t stay dead and buried. March 24, 2025 In “Miracles and Wonder,” Elaine Pagels concludes that the most improbable Gospel stories enlist…

John Davis, 62, says he decided not to have children. He's part of an environmental group called the Rewilding Institute that supports returning land to natural habitat. "We need to encourage a small family ethic, especially among affluent people," he told NPR. Brian Mann/NPR Families in the U.S.…

The Weekend Essay Art Rats in New York City Finding my own words. November 1, 2025 Photographs by David Gahr / Rock Negatives In 1967, I stepped out of the Port Authority Bus Terminal with a plaid suitcase. My desire was to become an artist. Perhaps I lacked the necessary skills, but I had the…

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Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable. Listen to this article · 6:39 min Learn more An artist’s conception of a Hycean exoplanet like K2-18b orbiting a red dwarf star.Credit...A. Smith, N.…

Ceramic maneki neko, or “welcoming cats,” at Gotokuji, a temple in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo that is dedicated to them. Visitors buy the figurines, scribble wishes on them and leave them on shelves.Credit...Kyoko Hamada T’s Travel Issue A journey through a country where felines are revered, adored…

This is either true or I’m crazy, Bennett Bacon thought, as he crossed north London one evening in the spring of 2017. In his bag was a good bottle of bordeaux and a hardback volume on Ice Age art from the 1970s, feathered with Post-its. Bacon has just turned 70 and works as a carver and gilder of…

Culture | Television How Ted Lasso killed Tony Soprano Image: Emile Holmewood |7 min read “Shh, it’s ok,” whispers Frank Underwood (played by Kevin Spacey), as he strokes an injured dog just hit by a car. As the dog whimpers, he soothes it—then, after looking the viewer directly in the eye, wrings…

Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent 23 February 2024 Richard Gray@chalkmark Marlon Clark Antarctica is a bleak, remote and dark place during the winter, but a handful of people each year brave the conditions to live in almost totally cut off from the…

TheLives TheyLived Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year. Dec. 22, 2023 SineadO’Connor B. 1966 Uncovering the unlikely story behind the singer’s first album. To say that Sinead O’Connor never quite regained the musical heights of her 1987 debut album, “The…

Article continues after advertisement * “It is a sign of the speed at which events are moving that Hurst and Blackett’s unexpurgated edition of Mein Kampf, published only a year ago, is edited from a pro-Hitler angle. The obvious intention of the translator’s preface and notes is to tone down the…

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Ukraine’s months-long preparation for its next counteroffensive to try to wrest back occupied territory has allowed Russia to fortify its positions along the almost 1,000km frontline. Satellite images

Updated at 10:25 a.m. ET on June 17, 2019. 1. The Disappearance At 12:42 a.m. on the quiet, moonlit night of March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER operated by Malaysia Airlines took off from Kuala Lumpur

A three-week fight in the town of Vuhledar in southern Ukraine produced what Ukrainian officials say was the biggest tank battle of the war so far, and a stinging setback for the Russians. Ukraine’s 7

He awoke to the sound of water dripping into a rusted sink. The streets below were bathed in medieval moonlight, reverberating silence. He lay there grappling with the terror of beauty, as the night u

For many years, the manner in which our country elects its leaders has been a very favorable setup for Republicans . Not only did they win the 2000 and 2016 presidential election s despite getting few

In 1985, Jorge Eckstein stumbled onto what would become one of the most important archaeological sites in Buenos Aires: a portal to a subterranean labyrinth. I In 1985, Jorge Eckstein, long-time resid

Ukraine released water from a hydroelectric dam to block the Russian military advance, flooding the village of Demydiv. Ukraine released water from a hydroelectric dam to block the Russian military ad

Contrary to popular belief, the ruling classes gorged on meat only on rare occasions, according to an analysis of more than 2,000 skeletons buried during medieval times. Send any friend a story As a s

When Russian troops first streamed across the Belarusian border into Ukraine for what they had assumed would be a lightning assault on Kyiv, they were intending to rely on the region’s extensive rail

A short drive from Kyiv in any direction turned up scenes of incinerated Russian vehicles, charred engine parts and chunks of armor. Attention is now shifting to the east, where Moscow says it is redirecting its forces. Ukrainian soldiers inspecting the remains of a Russian military vehicle on the…

This Plane Accidentally Flew Around the World After Pearl Harbor, the crew of Pan Am flight 18602 was forced to do the impossible John Bull 10 min read· Apr 2, 2018 -- A Boeing 314 clipper taking off. Photo by © Museum of Flight/CORBIS via Getty Images. The morning of 6th January 1942 was going to…

Every year, I try to do at least two things with my students at least once. First, I make a point of addressing them as “philosophers” – a bit cheesy, but hopefully it encourages active learning. Secondly, I say something like this: “I’m sure you’ve heard the expression ‘everyone is entitled to…

In the real world, Joshua Alayon worked as a real estate agent in Pompano Beach, Fla., where he used the handle “ SouthFloridasFavoriteRealtor ” to urge buyers on Facebook to move to “the most beautif

KABUL — On the day that Afghanistan’s capital fell to the Taliban, delivering the definitive verdict on a war that had lumbered on ambiguously for nearly 20 years, one of the city’s top security offic

During those first few weeks of the Covid-19 outbreak, the Rome newspaper Il Foglio ran a panicky headline that proclaimed “ La morte del bacio ” (The Death of Kissing). In the age of social distancin

Prof Alice Roberts in front of Stonehenge for a BBC Two documentary: The Lost Circle Revealed to be screened on Friday.Photograph: Barney Rowe/BBC/PA An ancient myth about Stonehenge , first recorded

What Will You Do if Trump Doesn’t Leave? Playing out the nightmare scenario. David Brooks Opinion Columnist Sept. 3, 2020 Credit... Photo illustration by Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times On t

"I'm 79 years old, I've won the Nobel prize and I don't give a shit," he says within the first 10 minutes of our chat. "I've never been worried about making a fool of myself. If I make a fool of mysel

On November 25, 2019, Chris Carney and his two-man crew, Pete Brown and Jun “Sumi” Sumiyama, set off from Japan on their way to Hawaii in a 42-foot sailboat, the Coco-Haz III . They had four weeks to cross the world’s largest ocean. The boat’s owner, a retired Japanese dentist, needed the trip done…

Abstract The origins of the First Americans remain contentious. Although Native Americans seem to be genetically most closely related to east Asians 1 , 2 , 3 , there is no consensus with regard to which specific Old World populations they are closest to 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 . Here we sequence the…

Yes, our infrastructure stinks , our schools are failing , this country’s a nightmare of inequality, and there’s a self-promoting madman in the White House, so isn’t it time to take pride in the rare institutional victories America has had in this century? Arguably, none has been more striking than…

Stunning glass beads found in Danish Bronze Age burials dating to 3400 years ago turn out to have come from ancient Egypt – in fact, from the workshop that made the blue beads buried with the famous boy-king Tutankhamun. The discovery proves that there were established trade routes between the far…

First Minister of Scotland and leader of the SNP Nicola Sturgeon wants another Scottish independence referendum (Picture: Getty) Scottish politicians have narrowly voted in favour of a motion calling for a second referendum on independence. The MSPs at Holyrood have voted by 64 to 54 in favour of a…

The New York Times has obtained video of the moment a Ukrainian airliner was hit minutes after takeoff from Tehran. The New York Times has obtained and verified video showing the moment a Ukrainian airliner was hit in Iran. Credit... Screenshot from video Video verified by The New York Times appears…