Lawyers for James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, mounted an opening defense on Monday against the criminal charges he ...

The day had started off perfectly. Family filled the Pearman home in Baltimore, Md., eager to meet Shannel Pearmen and her ...

We thus have one leg in a trap the Wages for Housework movement sought to blow open decades ago. As the historian Emily ...

Demand for cultural commentary is higher than it’s ever been—but now that commentary is coming from unconventional new ...

A New Jersey school teacher was convicted of sexually assaulting a student in the 1980s but the town rallied around him. Now, ...

Analytics in baseball presents an easy debate during the MLB playoffs: data vs. gut feel. But the two aren't at odds with ...

People are excited about having a new Barnes & Noble where they can hang out, read books, shop, pause and socialize.

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl ...

The Queen has paid tribute to the author Dame Jilly Cooper who has died at the age of 88, describing her as a “legend” and a ...

Pot-Bellied Pig Jane Street, Citadel Securities and Hudson River Trading are part of a rising class of market-making firms that have built expansive high-speed systems to carry out investor trades, ...

Last winter, for the first time since 2019, the $1.50 boba tea and lantern-speckled lampposts of urban China found their way to me again. The lanterns, for one, aren’t to be underestimated. There are ...

The week culminated on October 7 in the J. Cloyd Miller Library's annual Banned Books event. Johnson, who was also part of the October 7 event, noted that book challenges are on the rise, with numbers ...