The Howard University cheerleaders kneeling during “The Star-Spangled Banner” before a home football game against North Carolina Central University on Oct. 7. The squad’s ritual of taking a knee during the anthem began last year. Credit... Andrew Mangum for The New York Times WASHINGTON — A few…

With...Tom Hanks Tom Hanks in his office in Santa Monica, Calif., earlier this month. Credit... Jake Michaels for The New York Times SANTA MONICA, Calif. — In 2006, when Tom Hanks wanted to get a story published, he sent it to his friend and sometime director Nora Ephron. Having had my own writing…

Getty Images The Trump administration on Friday announced new sanctions against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the powerful security and military organization that is key to Iran’s regional influence, as part of Trump’s broader agenda to get tough on Iran for its support for terrorism in…

Esteban Garces, state director of Mi Familia Vota, has been working in Florida since 2012 and said his group had registered more than 65,000 voters since then. Credit... Cassi Alexandra for The New York Times ORLANDO, Fla. — Every day dozens of Puerto Ricans straggle into the Orlando area, fleeing…

Modern Love Credit... Brian Rea Leer en español 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 I am often asked if I am married. Sometimes I lie and say that I am. Sometimes I lie and say that I am not. Neither answer feels entirely truthful to me. If I say I am not married, the true answer, people occasionally try to set me up…

Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, at a news conference on Wednesday, denied that he had considered resigning. WASHINGTON — Long-simmering tension within President Trump ’s national security team spilled into public view on Wednesday as Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson took the extraordinary…

I’m not embarrassed to admit that I feel a little empty inside if I don’t have a @realDonaldTrump tweetstorm to go with my morning coffee. But I’m decidedly in the minority on this question: Even voters who like President Trump don’t particularly care for him tweeting all the time. A Quinnipiac poll…

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has been opening up about herself to satisfy the electorate’s hunger for personal connection. Credit... Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times ATLANTA — It took a few minutes to find an opening, but when it came, Senator Elizabeth Warren did not squander…

Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama. Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images The ideological vanguard of the Bernie Sanders movement emerged from the 2016 election overflowing with dialectical certainty. Hillary Clinton’s narrow win in the primary was the last gasp of a dying neoliberal order,…

At first, the Trump administration seemed to be doing all the right things to respond to the disaster in Puerto Rico. As Hurricane Maria made landfall on Wednesday, Sept. 20, there was a frenzy of activity publicly and privately. The next day, President Trump called local officials on the island,…

On Sunday night’s “60 Minutes,” a panel of Michigan voters spent 20 minutes discussing their political differences on screen. It was a moving segment and a powerful one, but it wasn’t all that novel if you’ve been paying attention to the political divide over the past year. The power came not really…

Bernie Sanders supporters gather at FDR park after marching through downtown on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 25. | Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Democrats have long been terrified that the Sanders-Clinton slugfest of 2016 would set off a prolonged civil…

The morning of November 9, 2016, I talked to the empty air of my bedroom, hoping to summon peace, clarity, a way forward, or — at the very least — the energy to move. I woke up alone, rolled over to the side of my bed, and opened a tray of notifications on my phone. My first intakes of the day were…

Today Facebook’s Workplace takes a giant step forward with the addition of a pretty high-profile customer: Walmart. The addition of the largest private employer in the world is a huge coup for Workplace, which launched less than a year ago . It’s also a big move for Walmart. Employees from the…

I. Air Force One Donald Trump hoped the trip would draw a line under the Russia story, which had hounded his candidacy and was now damaging his presidency. His legislative agenda, including repeal of Obamacare, was already in trouble. Looming just ahead were his reckless rhetoric about North Korea…

The Department of Health and Human Services has long maintained that Secretary Tom Price has not violated Federal Travel Regulations. | Evan Vucci/AP Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price took a government-funded private jet in August to get to St. Simons Island, an exclusive Georgia resort…

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Senate Republicans can't answer simple and critical questions about the health care bill they're crafting in secret. Some still can't say what it's trying to do — other than garner enough votes to pass the Senate — or how they believe it will improve the…

Getty Images Ben Strauss is the co-author of Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA , winner of the 2017 PEN/ESPN award for literary sports writing. As he walked to work down Pennsylvania Avenue, Jim Acosta, CNN’s senior White House correspondent, was wondering if today would…

A public quarrel with a Republican sponsor of the Senate’s Graham-Cassidy bill has put Jimmy Kimmel at the center of a national debate over health-care legislation. Photograph by Randy Holmes / ABC via Getty Back during the George W. Bush Administration, when Jon Stewart’s “DailyShow” was being…

Back in January, one reporter attempted to get Jay-Z’s thoughts on Donald Trump’s election. Hov had campaigned for Hillary Clinton, so it was just too soon ; Jay promptly shut the reporter down . With the wounds less fresh, he’s now ready to share his thoughts. Asked by BBC Radio 1’s Clara Amfo how…

The makers of LaCroix sparkling water go to great lengths to explain what isn’t used to create the beverage’s 20 flavors. There are no calories, no sugars, no artificial ingredients, no castoreum, no genetically modified organisms and no added phosphoric acid, according to the company. LaCroix…

Getty If the Hollywood powers that be ever endeavor to produce a Cary Grant biopic, George Clooney would be the perfect man for the job. Like Grant, he is possessed of an immense level of charisma with a pinch of playful mischief. It lends his best performances— Out of Sight , Ocean’s Eleven , From…

In the latest war of words between the United States and North Korea, Kim Jong Un did not pull any punches. But he may have pulled out an old dictionary. “I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire,” Kim declared in an unusually direct and angry statement published…

(Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images) President Trump’s speech at the United Nations on Tuesday, in which he threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea, provoked an unprecedented response: On Thursday evening, Kim Jong Un delivered a rare televised statement in which he declared, “I will surely and…

Former Vice President Joe Biden, pictured here on June 7, urged Americans to stand up to hate groups in his Saturday address. | Petros Giannakouris/AP Photo CHARLESTON, S.C. — Former Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday evening urged Americans to stand up to hate groups — and took direct aim at…

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Stephen Curry emerged from the Golden State Warriors training room with a huge grin. He'd had all morning to decide how to respond to being called out in a tweet by President Donald Trump and disinvited to celebrate the Warriors' NBA title at the White House. And as he walked over…

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — I was rummaging through a stranger’s tailgate on Sunday morning, looking for a place to charge my phone, trying to be as inconspicuous as possible, when a stern-looking older man spotted me. “Is that a statement?” he asked, pointing at my chest. I was wearing a red San Francisco…

Jeff Jarvis Sep 18, 2017 · 7 min read ‘If it’s all my fault, then the media doesn’t need to do any soul searching.’ I wish I could talk with Hillary Clinton in front of a journalism class, for she is a witness to — and victim of — journalism’s failures. Journalism as an institution largely refuses…

What's the state of free speech in America? Sanford Ungar, who teaches about it at Harvard and Georgetown, has a simple, depressing answer. "It's a mess," he says. It's not just the problems on college campuses where high-profile speakers haven't been allowed to talk. It's not just what happened in…

News Analysis President Trump boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in New Jersey on his way back to the White House on Sunday. Credit... Tom Brenner/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Over the course of just 17 hours this weekend, President Trump assailed John McCain, Chuck Schumer,…

I've given it a lot of thought, and I have decided that I am really frigging peeved off about this #TakeAKnee movement stuff!!! Are you freaking kidding me? Give me a break. If you ask me, these athletes should stick to sports! That’s their profession, after all, and that’s all that they know and…

Trump’s invective toward N.F.L. players who kneel during the national anthem (such as members of the Jacksonville Jaguars, above) highlights the racially charged demands facing black entertainers. Photograph by Simon Cooper / PA Images via Getty Sixty years ago, Central High School, in Little Rock,…

On Sunday, players from teams across the N.F.L., including the Washington Redskins, knelt during the national anthem in protest of President Donald Trump’s incendiary comments. Photograph by Patrick Smith / Getty Sunday was “an N.F.L. day the likes of which we have never seen before,”as Mike Tirico,…

From left: Gary D. Cohn, the National Economic Council chairman; Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser; and his wife, Ivanka Trump, the president’s elder daughter and adviser, maintained private email accounts after taking roles in the White House, current and former officials said. Credit...…

Gregg Popovich is the most respected head coach in the NBA, bar none, and he has increasingly chosen to speak out about President Donald Trump over the past year. At Monday’s media day, after a weekend where athletes unified across multiple sports to denounce several Trump comments, Popovich had his…

Global performance management company Nielsen released its seventh annual Diverse Intelligence Series report today and you should definitely read it. The "African American Women: Our Science, Her Magic" report paints black women as trendsetters, brand loyalists and early adopters who care about…

HHS secretary took chartered aircraft on five flights last week, while his predecessors would fly commercial. In a sharp departure from his predecessors, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price last week took private jets on five separate flights for official business, at a cost of tens of…

Angel Rich, from Washington, DC, has developed a very innovative app called Credit Stacker that teaches students about personal finance, credit management, and entrepreneurship in a fun and engaging way. The app is so popular that 200,000 people downloaded it to their smart phones and tablets within…

It isn’t easy to turn a biography into poetry. But Shawn Wen does exactly that with her portrait of mime artist Marcel Marceau, who introduced the world to this wordless art form. (Sarabande Books) Wen, a radio producer and multimedia artist, has written her first book with the kind of poetic zeal…

Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, at the Capitol in June. Credit... Mary F. Calvert for The New York Times 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, has asked the White House for documents about some of President Trump’s most scrutinized actions since taking…