The Mennonite Colony That Made a Deal With a Diamond Company
Eight families of Mennonites have moved from Mexico to Angola, in southern Africa, raising fears among some Angolans that they will be squeezed out by the new arrivals.
June 9, 2025
‘Sinners’ Goes Beyond Horror and the Blues for Clarksdale, Miss.
The community effort and attention around “Sinners,” a blockbuster horror movie, became an opportunity to talk about investing in the Delta town that built the blues.
June 4, 2025
Who Cares if Madrid is Landlocked? The Maritime Vibe is Everywhere.
The capital of Spain may not be on the coast, but that doesn’t keep it from celebrating its ties to the sea.
June 3, 2025
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May 30, 2025
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Spelling bee
May 30, 2025
For 20 years, “Carol” Hui served waffles, raised her children and embraced the small town of Kennett, Mo. Her detention and pending deportation to Hong Kong has hit the community hard.
A Beloved Mom’s Arrest Brings Trump’s Migrant Crackdown To Rural Missouri
May 28, 2025
How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Transformed a Fake War in Oklahoma
This military simulation of a fictional NATO-Russia conflict attracted a new kind of re-enactment enthusiast.
May 27, 2025
Pacers Pull Off All-Time Comeback to Steal Game 1
The Indiana team trailed the New York Knicks by 14 points with 2:50 remaining before going on to victory.
May 22, 2025
Long Drives and Short Homilies: How Father Bob Became Pope Leo
A résumé of deep religious education, frontline pastoral experience — along with a nudge from Pope Francis — put Robert Prevost on the fast track.
May 16, 2025
25 Years of NYC Dining
From 2000 to 2025, a quarter century timeline of the city’s defining restaurant and dining culture tk.
May 6, 2025
April 30, 2025
As Blockade Grinds On, Gazan Children Go Hungry and Patients Die
The impact of Israel’s siege has become “catastrophic”, doctors say. Food, water, and medicine shortages are sparking a surge of preventable illnesses, and even deaths.
April 30, 2025
Great Food, Exciting Restaurant. Who Needs a Kitchen?
Tiny spaces with minimal equipment — not even a stove — are loved by chefs who leverage the limitations to turn out thrilling dishes.
April 25, 2025
Kurdish Distrust of Syria’s New Government Runs Deep
The Kurdish-led force that runs northeast Syria has agreed to integrate into a new national army, but some of its supporters remain wary.
April 25, 2025
Discovering Amazing Wildlife Along the Panama Canal
Birding trip in Panama
April 25, 2025
Vietnam War Photos
Vietnam War Photos
April 24, 2025
The Face of Catholicism in the United States Has Changed. Here’s How.
The Face of Catholicism in the United States Has Changed. Here’s How.
April 18, 2025
Strawberries Aren’t Ripe for Africa? His Farms Disprove That, Deliciously.
Thierno Agne left behind law to grow strawberries, a shocking move in Senegal, where farming is considered work for the old, poor and uneducated.
April 17, 2025
‘We Don’t Have a Day or Night of Calm’
People in the Ukrainian city struck on Palm Sunday have little hope of a cease-fire.
April 15, 2025
In a Snow Paradise, They Live in This Parking Lot
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April 11, 2025
‘People Who are Salaried are Crying,’: Taxes on Workers Add to Debt Misery
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April 10, 2025
Sudan Food
Sudan Food
April 10, 2025
Partial Eclipse Captivates Much of the Northern Hemisphere
The moon slipped between the Earth and the sun on Saturday, casting a shadow on our planet in parts of the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Russia and Africa.
March 29, 2025
An Earthquake Rocks Myanmar and Thailand
The 7.7-magnitude quake caused widespread damage in a country already in chaos because of civil war.
March 28, 2025
Drones, Mines and Snipers: Ukraine’s Frontline Is a World Away from Peace Talks
For soldiers and commanders on Ukraine’s ravaged front, any talk about a lasting cease-fire still feels like a dangerous fantasy.
March 25, 2025
Sudan’s Military Sweeps Across Capital, Hoping to Turn the War
A New York Times reporter and photographer were the first Western journalists to visit central Khartoum since the civil war broke out two years ago. The scale of how much has been lost was inescapable.
March 24, 2025
Many California Trees Survived the Wildfires.
Here’s Why.
March 21, 2025
Ukraine’s Suffering Environment TK
Tk tracking the war’s environmental devastation on water, land, air and wildlife.
March 18, 2025
Fear of Trump’s Tariffs Ripples Through France’s Champagne Region
Merchants worried that a trade war could wreak financial havoc in a region that has a robust business exporting the world’s finest bubbly to the United States.
March 15, 2025
24 Pastas That Scream Spring
These recipes make the case for pasta as spring’s perfect food.
March 12, 2025
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March 6, 2025
An Immigrant Neighborhood Where Trump Made Inroads Now Fears ICE Raids
In Corona, a once-vibrant New York City enclave home to generations of Latino immigrants, the threat of mass deportations has made many residents afraid to go outside.
March 1, 2025
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February 20, 2025
A War Within the War: Ukraine’s Ill Children
A War Within the War: Ukraine’s Ill Children
February 14, 2025
Many Groups Promised Federal Aid Still Have No Funds and No Answers
Judicial rulings have unfrozen some grants awaited by nonprofits, states and companies, but the reprieve has been uneven and many fear the relief is only temporary.
February 13, 2025
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February 12, 2025
Tent City Rising at Guantánamo Bay
These are the first independent images to emerge from the Trump administration migrant operation that is underway at the Navy base.
February 8, 2025
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Superdome
February 4, 2025
Moo Deng, the Toddler Hippopotamus, Is Still a Star
The pygmy hippopotamus, now 6 months old, is Thailand’s biggest celebrity, and the crowds keep flocking. What explains her charm?
January 30, 2025
Frantic Rescue Effort After Stampede at a Hindu Festival in India
People were trampled as pilgrims rushed to bathe in holy waters at the Maha Kumbh Mela, a huge Hindu festival.
January 29, 2025
Fireworks and Family Feasts Kick Off Year of the Snake
More than a billion people around the world are celebrating the Lunar New Year.
January 29, 2025
WHAT TRUMP’S SUPPORTERS WANT FOR THE FUTURE OF AMERICA
Scenes from inauguration
January 25, 2025
The Last Migrant Caravans Before Trump’s Inauguration
The Last Migrant Caravans Before Trump’s Inauguration
January 18, 2025
80 Years of First Lady Fashion
From Eleanor Roosevelt to Jill Biden, first ladies have often made statements through what they wore on Inauguration Day and to the inaugural balls.
January 17, 2025
The Los Angeles Fires Burned Livelihoods, Too
For many service workers, a wealthy Los Angeles neighborhood represented an economic lifeline that the fires have now severed.
January 16, 2025
Palisades Lost
Days after a devastating wildfire, residents of Pacific Palisades have started sifting through the ruins, and their memories.
January 10, 2025
The Flying Maestro: A Top Conductor Moonlights as an Air France Pilot
Daniel Harding scaled the heights of classical music. Then he set out to conquer the skies.
January 3, 2025
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01space
December 30, 2024
The New York That ‘Anora’ Travels Does Exist: Take Our Tour
The movie is structured around a chaotic chase through Brooklyn and Manhattan. The director Sean Baker and his location manager retraced their steps.
December 28, 2024
2024 Notable Deaths
Since we have 2024 in the headline, how about this?: As the year winds to a close, we’re recalling those we’ve lost who forged consequential lives.
December 26, 2024
In Southern Lebanon, Trauma and Grief Mark a Somber Christmas
The ancient Christian community in the coastal city of Tyre has little cause for celebration this year, rattled by months of Israeli bombardment.
December 24, 2024
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Ecuador-Energy
December 24, 2024
20 Years Since the Deadly Tsunami in Asia
20 Years Since the Deadly Tsunami in Asia
December 23, 2024
Fighting to Avoid Her Mother’s Fate, for Her Daughters’ Sake
A mutant gene is coming to steal Linde Jacobs’s mind. Can she find a way to stop it?
December 20, 2024
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Homs
December 19, 2024
The Year Country Went Everywhere, and Everyone Went Country
Our critic hit the road to talk with Jelly Roll, Shaboozey, Tanner Adell and other artists to understand why country music was inescapable in 2024.
December 18, 2024
The Gold Rush for Drugs Under Taliban Rule
The Gold Rush for Drugs Under Taliban Rule
December 17, 2024
Cafes Can’t Play Music, but the Water Taps Work: Life Under Syria’s Rebels
Cafes Can’t Play Music, but the Water Taps Work: Life Under Syria’s Rebels
December 17, 2024
Saving England’s Music Oasis From a New Wave of Development
Saving England’s Music Oasis From a New Wave of Development
December 16, 2024
With al-Assad Gone, Syrians Seek Answers in an Underground Jail
Guided by cellphone flashlights, relatives searched a notorious lockup in Damascus for traces of loved ones who were snatched during the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
December 13, 2024
A Ghastly Search for Loved Ones Who Disappeared in Syria
Syrians raced to newly emptied prisons to reunite with loved ones taken away by Bashar al-Assad’s regime, but their quest sometimes took them to the morgue.
December 11, 2024
Dating on the Front Line: Ukrainian Women Travel to Keep Love Alive
Dating on the Front Line: Ukrainian Women Travel to Keep Love Alive
December 10, 2024
Dating on the Front Line: Ukrainian Women Travel to Keep Love Alive
Dating on the Front Line: Ukrainian Women Travel to Keep Love Alive
December 10, 2024
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100-YEARS-FADER
December 9, 2024
‘You Can Never Look Back’: How ’70s Rockers Rebooted for the ’80s
The year 1984 was a watershed in pop music. The stars who’d made it big the previous decade had to embrace a new era.
December 5, 2024
Best Albums of 2024
Charli XCX, Mk.gee and MJ Lenderman top our pop music critics’ lists this year.
December 3, 2024
Why Black Americans Searching for Their Roots Should Look to Angola
Why Black Americans Searching for Their Roots Should Look to Angola
November 27, 2024
On Blood-Soaked Ground, a ‘Prayer for the Future’ of a Divided Land
Two weeks after the election, a gathering in Gettysburg commemorated Lincoln’s address, 272 words that have come to epitomize what it means to be presidential.
November 23, 2024
Colombia and Venezuela Have a Beef: Who Owns the [or Makes the Best] Arepa?
Both countries claim the cornbread as their own. But where does it really come from? And who makes it better?
November 22, 2024
To Quit Their Jobs, Sugar Workers Risk Kidnapping, Assault and Murder
Why would anyone stay in a job where abuse is rampant and women are coerced into hysterectomies? Because the cost of escaping India’s cane fields is often even higher.
November 21, 2024
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November 15, 2024
A Hub of Korean American Life Celebrates Andy Kim’s Senate Milestone.
Mr. Kim will be the first Korean American senator. Nowhere in the United States is his community’s imprint more clear than in northern New Jersey.
November 14, 2024
‘The Clock’ Revisits New York. Is It Still of Our Time?
Christian Marclay’s 24-hour film is on view at the Museum of Modern Art, returning after more than a decade.
November 14, 2024
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November 12, 2024
How ‘Blitz’ Recreates War-Torn London
Steve McQueen’s latest film, set in 1940 during Germany’s bombardment of the British capital, draws extensively from contemporary photos, and was shot entirely outside London.
November 2, 2024
Four Must-See Parks Opening in Fall Herald a New Golden Age
After decades of planning and restoration, they will debut when trees are bare, drawing intrepid cold-weather visitors.
November 1, 2024
How the Two Biggest Cities in the U.S. Watched the World Series
Yankees and Dodgers fans watch the World Series unfold from around their cities.
October 29, 2024
Music and Morale in a Country at War
As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine nears the end of its third year, music has become an important way to keep people’s spirits up — and a pillar of Ukraine’s defense.
October 29, 2024
If You Think You Can Hold a Grudge, Consider the Crow
The brainy birds carry big chips on their shoulders, scientists say. And some people who become subjects of their ire may be victims of mistaken identity.
October 25, 2024
On the front line defending a Russian advance in Toretsk
Ukrainian soldiers repels a Russian attacks outside Toretsk
October 18, 2024
Halloween’s Mutation: From Humble Holiday to Retail Monstrosity
Americans once made their own costumes and candy. Now, the holiday has rapidly commercialized, transforming into an economic juggernaut.
October 18, 2024
How the Global Tech Outage Disrupted Airlines, Subways and More
See how chaotic moments played out on Friday.
July 19, 2024
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10themorning-slide
February 10, 2024
Altman, Last Week: ‘We’re Heading Toward the Best World Ever’
Hard Fork spoke to the OpenAI founder just two days before he was ousted by his company’s board in a surprise coup.
November 22, 2023
Behind 94 Acts of Shocking Violence, Years of Glaring Mistakes
Amid a drumbeat of incidents involving homeless, mentally ill people, officials in New York said they were doing their best. The reality is different, a New York Times investigation has found.
November 20, 2023
Kanye West and Adidas: How Misconduct Broke a Lucrative Partnership
Adidas and Kanye West made billions before the brand broke with him last year over his antisemitic and other offensive comments. A New York Times examination revealed that Adidas leadership tolerated his misconduct behind the scenes for nearly a decade.
October 26, 2023
How TikTokers Are Redefining the Movie Review
On MovieTok, reviewers can reach an audience of millions and earn tens of thousands of dollars per post. “Critics,” they say, are old news.
October 3, 2023
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5 Monday Must-Reads
Is the G7 going to meet at Trump’s Florida resort? Nope. Chinese protesters write final goodbyes. Tensions rise in Fort Worth. Memories of a dangerous New Jersey amusement park. And more.
October 21, 2019
Bush Suggests Sept. 11 Attacks Were Aimed at World Markets
The president told American and Asian business leaders in Shanghai that the terrorists who struck the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 were attempting to make world markets collapse.
October 20, 2001