On Amsterdam Avenue by the Metropolitan Opera House—a day before Mayor Mamdani announced his new free-opera-tickets initiative—two supernumerary performers in Puccini’s “La Bohème,” the Met’s most popular opera, disembarked from a horse trailer. Wanda, a…

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On Friday, a group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers who were harvesting olives in the West Bank. In the process, they also beat up an American Washington Post photographer, Heidi Levine, who was there to cover the annual olive harvest. The…

“God does not and cannot exist,” Iris Murdoch once wrote, “but what led us to conceive of him does exist, and is constantly experienced and pictured.” You could hang that sentence—epigraph, baleful blessing—over Meghan O’Gieblyn’s memoir, “Will and Attention”…

People love talking about the tragic fates from which their rescue dogs were spared. Kill shelters, international conflicts, New Jersey—pups are rescued from all kinds of precarious situations. Yet a brief look back through dog history shows that most canines…

One morning earlier this month, deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arrested Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang, the couple at the center of a nationwide surrogacy scandal. Officers had staked out the pair’s ten-thousand-square-foot mansion…

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New data suggest that a quarter of American servicemen may have low testosterone. That doesn’t mean what Pete Hegseth thinks it does.

“Fatherland” dramatizes the novelist Thomas Mann’s 1949 return to Germany. Its filmmaker, Paweł Pawlikowski, also tweaks the facts to fit his own style—one with little room for variety or range, Richard Brody writes.

In a world where state policy is shaped by A.I. hallucination, it’s cute to remember that consulting Wikipedia was once seen as irresponsible. Schools banned its use, and journalists were shamed for credulously repeating its hoaxes. “Reads like Wikipedia”…

Brazil’s once towering leftist leader may soon be swept away by Latin America’s right-wing tide.

Our critic’s favorite works by the new Nobel laureate. Plus: Colm Tóibín’s reading recommendations.

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Olga Rivera Galati, a deputy director at We Are Casa, an immigrant-advocacy organization, was starting her car in the parking lot outside her office, in York, Pennsylvania, when a white S.U.V. pulled into the spot next to her. It was just after five o’clock…

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