Last November, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, the second- or third-best player on the third- or fourth-best team in the sixth- or seventh-best conference in women’s college volleyball took the court in Las Vegas. She was the center of attention …
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Why the White House Started Making Deportation Cartoons
The Trump administration hasn’t yet delivered huge deportation numbers — but it is using the internet to provide regular deportation spectacles.
Catholics Expected a Revolution from Francis, Just Not the One He Gave Them
Liberals hoped he’d ordain women or allow gay marriage. Conservatives thought he’d tear up Church doctrine. But his papacy favored debate over radical action.
My Son Has a Rare Syndrome. So I Turned to the Internet.
I did not know that anything was unusual until I was seven months pregnant. Inside the exam room, the technician dimmed the lights and stood astride her mysterious station. She worked her probe into the hard rind of my belly and offered selections …
The Techno-Utopians Who Want to Colonize the Sea
Forty-six hours before Rüdiger Koch officially seized the Guinness World Record for the longest time spent living in an underwater fixed habitat, I took a 15-minute motorboat ride from Linton Bay Marina, in north-central Panama, to visit him. It was …
Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?
With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it.
Meloni and Trump: Oval Office Meeting Cements Special Rapport
In Washington, President Trump lavished praise on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy. He also accepted her invitation to visit Rome.
Trump Lashes Out at Fed Chair for Not Cutting Rates
President Trump on Thursday escalated his long-running attack on the Federal Reserve, by lashing out repeatedly at the head of the nation’s central bank, Jerome H. Powell, for not doing enough to fortify the economy as the effects of tariffs take …
Melania Trump’s Easter Surprise
She did not, despite her penchant for hats, wear an Easter bonnet. Instead, when Melania Trump materialized on a flower-festooned White House balcony next to her husband (who was in his usual red, white and blue) to celebrate the White House Easter …
Don Mischer, Master of Live Television, Is Dead at 85
He produced and directed major events like the Oscars, Emmys and Tonys, as well as Super Bowl halftime shows and Olympic opening ceremonies.