Twitter cofounder Ev Williams is backing a new social network called Maven, which trades likes and follows for algorithms designed to foster serendipity and deep discussion.
A group of architects are creating disjointed structures that, in responding to their unsteady terrain, are a new model in cooperative building.
A union representing about 48,000 academic workers said that campus leaders mishandled pro-Palestinian demonstrations. The vote gives the union’s executive board the ability to call a strike at any time.
Amid a standoff with the state over whether Beth Israel Hospital will close, severely ill patients keep arriving to a hospital that cannot always care for them.
Southern political leaders say a win for the United Automobile Workers would threaten their economies. Activists want to strike a blow against a system they say exploits the poor.
New census estimates find moderate post-pandemic rebounds for big cities in the Midwest and Northeast.
Things for Ukraine are likely to get worse before they get better.
We need to be prepared to fight the next war, not the last one.
If this were the last tour of Madonna’s career, she would retire as the most influential female pop star of all time.
The dehumanization of Palestinians has become a norm.
In a new study, researchers found universal features of songs across many cultures, suggesting that music evolved in our distant ancestors.
The Democratic Party has taken heat for not backing Black female candidates in competitive, statewide races, but in November, voters could double the number of Black women ever elected to the Senate.
The characters are the same as in 2020, but key story lines have turned upside down.
For nearly 40 years, the Commission on Presidential Debates has made the rules for the most-watched events in politics. This year, both campaigns said no thanks.
Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans want more federal money for the military. But Democrats say domestic programs must get an equivalent boost.
Ukraine said it was slowing Russia’s push near Kharkiv, but still faced pitched battles there, as well as other hotly contested areas farther south.
In talks with China’s leader, in Beijing, the Russian president called for stronger economic ties between the countries, as he intensifies his war effort.
The seven-year run of the hit series, which ends on Thursday, mirrors the story of the television business during that time.
The criminal trial was dominated by testimony from Michael D. Cohen, the defendant’s former personal lawyer, and Stormy Daniels, a porn star who took hush money.
Defense lawyers for Donald J. Trump will try to sully the testimony of Michael D. Cohen, who once was his lawyer and now is his nemesis.