This week, the chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY), where I teach, was summoned to testify at a hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, alongside top administrators from UC Berkeley and Georgetown. Congressional Republicans once again smeared universities as ideologically dangerous, accusing faculty like me of being extremist and even antisemitic.

The signing into law of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is not just a setback, it’s a blow to millions of low-income Americans. For New Yorkers, it lands like a gut punch.

Dear Eric: I have a friend, from college 40 years ago, who I’m only now realizing is a needy, self-aggrandizing narcissist. In all of that time, absolutely no one in my circle has ever liked her. She has driven people away, including her spouse, but maybe subconsciously I thought with me it was different. She […]

Cops have arrested a suspect in the death of a 25-year-old man fatally shot in the Bronx last month by gunman riding a moped, police said Thursday. Police identified the victim as Mott Haven resident Luis Marcano Sanchez, who died after he was shot several times in the torso by a moped-riding assailant near Bryant and Lafayette Aves. in Hunts Point on June 9 around 8:15 p.m.

There is a long-running story about the “returns” of stolen material to the site of Pompeii. Earlier in the year a tourist returned a few pieces of volcanic debris she had taken from the site (she apparently feared that the cancer she had developed was punishment for the theft). In 2022 a woman from Canada […]

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Alicia Rix charts Henry James’s return to an unrecognisable homeland; David Horspool discusses a Victorian conman and a contemporary swimmer

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Back in 2013, the Obama administration introduced a low-profile but deeply impactful rule for federal contractors: to remain compliant with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, the legions of firms contracting with the federal government would have to work towards a staff that was at least 7 percent disabled. That target, which went into effect […]

Police on Thursday released surveillance footage of a man opening fire on two women in what they described as an unprovoked attack in a Upland parking lot. The incident happened around 2 a.m. on April 26, when two adult women were leaving a business near Foothill Boulevard and Grove Avenue and driving through the parking […]

A suspect was taken into custody after allegedly assaulting a deputy with a car, initiating a pursuit and then barricading in a San Gabriel Valley home early Thursday morning. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, it was around 2 a.m. when deputies attempted to conduct a traffic stop on an adult male driver […]