“It took a lot of, I guess, soul-searching, for lack of a better term — inner strength — to allow this to happen, because this is my life’s work,” he said. “This is why people might talk about me after I’m gone, right?” @sopandeb.bsky.social in @nytimes.com
NASA is set to send four astronauts — three from the United States and one from Canada — on a trip around the moon and back without landing there. @nytimes.com
"I am thoroughly confused by this strange turn of events.” We have been mispronouncing Thoreau's name, apparently. @nytimes.com
Mr. Titinger, his biographer, said that in his fiction, Mr. Bryce Echenique elaborated from the “quotidian,” from themes of “friendship, love, tenderness,” and wrote from the “point of view of failure and the loser.” @nytimes.com
An investigation by The New York Times found extensive evidence that the United Farm Workers co-founder groomed and sexually abused girls who worked in the movement.
Even as he continued to record, Mr. Colón told The Herald, he felt increasingly at odds with an industry focused on commercial appeal over innovation, including a trend toward performers who in his estimation were far more physically attractive than musically gifted. @nytimes.com
Through the power of his language and his preternatural energy and ambition, he became a moral and political force in a racially ambiguous era, when Jim Crow was still a vivid memory and Black political power more an aspiration than a reality. @nytimes.com
For a long time, the passageway was somewhat of a mystery. Theories included that it may have been a laundry chute or a secret passage for younger members of the family. @nytimes.com
Desire lines often stem from necessity, at times when officials neglect human experience or certain regions altogether. @nytimes.com
"Our relationship with images has changed with the internet and digital photography. Many of us fall into an endless sea of images on social media as soon as we wake up, sometimes spending fractions of a second with them." @nytimes.com
Over the course of two decades, the country went from democracy to dictatorship. Its government nationalized foreign-owned assets and began a dangerous sparring match with the United States — only to run out of cash when oil prices crashed. @nytimes.com
“Now I laughed, and I laughed when I saw the photo. My mom laughed, my friends too. They made stickers and memes and all that,” Camargo said. “But I still see the videos of what happened that day, of the explosions, I hear the sounds and I still feel this sense of panic.” @apnews.com
Over the course of a turbulent year, photographers captured those and other events with intrepidness and determination — even as they so often put themselves at risk. @nytimes.com
As border crossings dried up, Mr. Trump lifted restrictions on whom immigration officers could target elsewhere in the country. More deportees are now drawn from this wider pool. @nytimes.com
The guidance, issued on Tuesday to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices, asks that they “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” in the 2026 fiscal year. @nytimes.com
Krasznahorkai's lecture, which he gave in Hungarian, ranged across topics such as old and new angels, human dignity, hope or the lack thereof, rebellion and his observations of a clochard — or tramp — on the Berlin subway. @apnews.com
Kahlo created this huge double portrait in 1939 around the time of her divorce from the artist Diego Rivera. One of her best-known works, it hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City. @nytimes.com
Three irregularly-shaped squares stacked one atop the other; blue, unbleached titanium, and red (top to bottom), surrounded by a black outline with hints of under-lying light blue.
December 4: "Filmstrip" (2005) acrylic on canvas, 40 in. x 20 in. #ArtAdventCalendar
Almost 58% of the Somalis in Minnesota were born in the U.S. And of the foreign-born Somalis there, 87% are naturalized U.S. citizens. @apnews.com
Parents and staff at the Institute for Collaborative Education say those letters have taken on a grim connotation in President Donald Trump’s second term. @wnyc.org
The cantilever, which opened in 1954, was designed to be used for 50 years. The risks only go up as it continues to deteriorate year after year, even as its life span has been extended with interim measures. @nytimes.com
Younger adults are facing the worst labor market shock in years, one far more acute than the rest of the population. @axios.com
Today, 40% of all babies in the U.S. are born to unmarried women, a dramatic increase since 1960, when they made up only 5% of births. @nprnews.bsky.social
She called it “El sueño (La cama),” or “The dream (The bed),” bringing the artist’s preoccupation with the border between sleep and death into focus. @nytimes.com
They sold nostalgia: rice, beans, plantains, chorizo and other foods that were reminders of home. @nytimes.com #NYC
Right there with you.
Penn Station remains the busiest transit hub in the United States, with nearly double the number of daily passengers as the busiest airport. It is also widely abhorred. @nytimes.com
The bishops said they “oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people” and “pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
