With teachers and students returning to the classroom, the hosts of Critics at Large reflect on the art of education itself.

Marlon James, Louise Erdrich, Edwidge Danticat, and more.

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Natasha Singer’s book “Coding Kids” tracks how public schools were bewitched by private corporations, setting the stage for the ed-tech backlash of today.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., eats beef every day, but more Americans, faced with rising prices and another climate warning, might want something else for dinner.

What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.

China’s fears about A.I. are increasingly distinct from those of the U.S. What does that mean for international coöperation?

Herds of livestock are munching through overgrown, hard-to-reach vegetation that could otherwise become fuel for firestorms.

Sarah Longwell’s “How to Eat an Elephant” and Adam Jentleson’s “Supermajority” grapple with how to defeat Trumpism.

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The New Yorker staff writer examines America’s unique problem with gun violence, and why he thinks under-policing is at the root of our problem.

The d.j. explains how he worked out some of the turntable innovations that led to hip-hop as we know it, and why the Furious Five’s biggest hit was the beginning of the end.

The British nurse Lucy Letby was sentenced to life in prison for murdering babies on her ward. Rachel Aviv writes about the recently published findings of a three-year inquiry into the deaths—and the central question that it ignores.

As A.I. presses harder on the academic enterprise, we might look to a place where process is its own reward.

Did Benjamin Netanyahu’s aides peddle influence to a foreign power?

On the eve of her residence at Café Carlyle, the Bangles singer dishes on her set list, which includes a Prince song and tracks from her new album, “The List,” inspired by a string of old boyfriends.

In chronicling the making of “Girls,” Lena Dunham’s memoir reveals the cost of moving from the freedom of independent filmmaking to the corporate demands of television.

The U.S. opted not to intervene as Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized a major choke point for Saudi oil shipments on the Red Sea.

The singer has been raunchy, folksy, psychedelic, Disney-clean. On her new album, “Bass Persuades,” she disappears onto the dance floor.

“The Ford/Hill Project” splices, cuts, and edits the testimonies produced in two infamous Supreme Court confirmation hearings, resulting in “the feeling of vertigo,” Doreen St. Félix writes.