The Dave Matthews Band is on tour, as they have been every summer, except 2020, for the past 30-odd years. Like the Grateful Dead and Phish, so-called jam bands with […]

By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Last Sunday, I argued that despite his stagnation in the polls, for Republicans (and non-Republicans) who would prefer that Donald Trump not be renominated for […]

Academia is in the midst of a generational turmoil. Blue states such as California and Oregon have recently transformed their public universities with expansive “diversity, equity and inclusion” programs that […]

Did Covid jump from an animal to a person at a food market in Wuhan, China — or leak from a research lab there? That question remains the pandemic’s central […]

When Mark Finney moved to southwestern Virginia with his young family a decade ago, there were different hospital systems and a range of independent doctors to choose from. But when […]

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In the wake of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed rebellion, it seems as if Russia’s leaders are living in an alternate reality. The sequence of events speaks for itself. Russian troops waved […]

If you spend much time online, you witnessed something remarkable last week. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, launched a competitor to Twitter called Threads, and the public […]

More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “The Flawed Moral Logic of Sending Cluster Munitions to Ukraine” (editorial, July 11): Long may your civilized arguments, generated from your safe […]