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Arts
What Do Two Fires Have in Common? It Comes Down to Guts.
At MoMA, the choreographer and artist Yve Laris Cohen’s installation, inspired by a fire at Jacob’s Pillow, looks at the fragility of space, art and the body.
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Arts
From Pest to Ecosystem Engineer: The Beaver Gets a Makeover
“Beaverland,” by Leila Philip, offers an appreciative account of the North American rodent, whose habit of taking down trees and causing floods has given it a reputation as a nuisance.
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World
Was the World Collapsing? Or Were You Just Freaking Out?
What should we make of this year in America? There’s an argument that this is the end, or the beginning of the end, that the infrastructure of our democracy is crumbling, and that the jittery quality in the economy portends collapse and that the ...
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World
House Panel Backs Prosecution of Trump
More from our inbox: Howard Schultz and the Union Fight at StarbucksHanukkah Beyond the KitschRethinking Marijuana PolicyCredit...Haiyun Jiang/The New York TimesTo the Editor: Re “Jan. 6 Committee Refers Former President Trump for Criminal ...
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World
How Will History Remember Jan. 6?
Far-right groups stockpiling guns and explosives, preparing for a violent overthrow of a government they deem illegitimate. Open antisemitism on the airwaves, expressed by mainstream media figures. Leading politicians openly embracing bigoted ...
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World
Liberals Have Been So Busy Not Losing, They’ve Forgotten How to Win
So the Democrats avoided the usual midterm cataclysm. They lost the House, yes, but they gained a seat in the Senate, and they did so despite a bad economic climate and an unpopular president. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has embarrassed himself with ...
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World
Falling a Little Bit in Love With the Dark
NASHVILLE — This year the winter solstice arrives on Dec. 21 in the shank of the dark afternoon. Officially the first day of astronomical winter, the solstice is better known as the shortest day of the year. I prefer to think of it as the longest ...
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World
Should Iowa or South Carolina Go First?
More from our inbox: Humans and Wildlife: The Messages Are MixedThe Decades-Long Struggle for Affordable Child CareCredit...Antonio Giovanni PinnaTo the Editor: Re “Democrats to Iowa: Get Lost!,” by Art Cullen (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 12): Maybe ...
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World
When Filmmakers Don’t Understand the Assignment
There have been three screen adaptations of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Erich Maria Remarque’s 1928 novel of one soldier’s experience of the Great War. The first, released in 1930 and directed by Lewis Milestone, was a sensation. It won two ...
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World
The Ideal of Democracy in a Jewish State Is in Jeopardy
Israeli elections can be dramatic, and its five elections within four years have been full of political surprises and firsts, including the first time an independent Israeli Arab party joined a governing coalition. This series of new governments and ...