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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani laughing while holding a microphone at CultureCon.

I watched Venezuela descend into socialist chaos before my family escaped — I see America going down the same road

October 10, 2026 | 12:00pm

Welcome to New Caracas.

A student wearing a face mask sits on a chair in the street while garbage burns in the background during a protest in Lille, France.

France’s insane student protests are really about a growing radical Muslim population that wants to get rid of democracy

October 10, 2026 | 10:00am

Beware the pommes de terror!

Illustration of Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin sailing in an upside-down umbrella.

Should America deport Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends?

October 10, 2026 | 8:00am

Party Pooh-pers!

President George W. Bush throws out the first pitch from the pitcher's mound.

George W. Bush is mocked for his verbal slipups, but he was actually a master rhetorician

October 4, 2026 | 12:00pm

He was pitch perfect.

An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows An older man undresses a senior woman in lingerie as she lies in bed, Image 2 shows Book cover of 20 over 60, edited by Beth Weinhouse and David Galef

Authors share saucy tales of live after 60 : ‘spicy life … even in the bedroom’

October 4, 2026 | 10:00am

Dating, sex, bad marriages and even stealing pepper mills. Life after 60 is hardly boring as portrayed in the short story anthology "20 Over 60."

An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Black-and-white portrait of Cormac McCarthy with a mustache, wearing a patterned shirt and posing with arms crossed in front of a tree and building, Image 2 shows Author Cormac McCarthy posing on a bridge overlooking a river, with industrial buildings and bridges in the background

Was Cormac McCarthy a horrible guy?

October 4, 2026 | 10:00am

No country for nice men.

It’s a good time to remember the 5,000 armed vigilantes who took over San Francisco in 1856

October 4, 2026 | 8:00am

Look out for Golden Gate gallows.

How a crime-fighting Brooklyn prosecutor landed a key role in ‘Goodfellas’

October 3, 2026 | 2:00pm

In his new memoir, Edward McDonald writes of his relationship with mobster Henry Hill — the basis of Ray Liotta's character — and how he came to play himself in...

A soldier holding a rifle stands guard inside the ruined interior of a Jewish hospital in Hebron.

The forgotten 1929 massacre that explains the Middle East today

October 3, 2026 | 12:00pm

Since Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas sympathizers have insisted that we must understand the massacre in its historical context — that it did not happen in a vacuum. This much is...

Isabel Vincent

Brazilian voters heading to the poll this weekend say Lula is turning the country into ‘another Venezuela’

October 3, 2026 | 10:00am

This election is turning into a Carnaval.

An image collage containing 3 images, Image 1 shows Cast members of the film "School Ties" pose together on a brick building's steps, Image 2 shows Exterior view of Dexter Hall at Worcester Academy, featuring a red brick facade with multiple windows and a prominent entranceway, with cars parked in the foreground, Image 3 shows Matt Damon and Brendan Fraser in a scene from "School Ties."

Naomi Schaefer Riley

I watched Ben Affleck and Matt Damon make a movie at my high school that could never be made today

October 3, 2026 | 8:00am

Prep school fools.

An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Ancient rock-carved tomb in the desert at AlUla, Mada'in Saleh, Saudi Arabia, Image 2 shows A panoramic view of Jerusalem with the Dome of the Rock in the foreground

Simon Sebag Montefiore offers a Middle East primer for today’s TikTok-addicted, attention-deficient armchair experts

September 27, 2026 | 12:00pm

An oasis in the knowledge desert.

A person holding up an MRI scan displaying multiple cross-sections of a human brain.

This family’s heartbreaking struggle with dementia in midlife may upend our understanding of the disease — and hope for a cure

September 27, 2026 | 10:00am

Check the forecast for brain storms.

Four years after an extremist stabbed him, Salman Rushdie mulls visiting his attacker

September 27, 2026 | 8:00am

An eye for an eye?

Party in Snoop’s trailer, tasers and Steve Carell almost losing a nipple: Inside the bro comedy boom of the aughts

September 26, 2026 | 2:00pm

The new book, "Funny Business: The Old-School Wedding Crashers and Knocked-Up Virgins Who Changed Comedy Forever," is full of hilarious revelations.

Students in a classroom, with a large American flag hanging in a window.

A new textbook that isn’t afraid to teach the history of American greatness and hope

September 26, 2026 | 12:00pm

America is no evil empire.

Masked vigilantes are raiding neighborhoods in England because the government has become so spineless

September 26, 2026 | 10:00am

Watch out for the men in black.

President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia speaking during a visit to New York.