A new production of the ballet sets it in 1930s Hollywood instead of a mythic India, eliminating Orientalist clichés while embracing American ones.One after the other, women in white step out of the wings, reaching forward into space before swaying gently back... More »
With the singer Harry Belafonte, she was half of a celebrated, and sometimes denounced, interracial power couple who pressed the cause of civil rights in the 1960s.Julie Robinson Belafonte, a dancer, actress and, with the singer Harry Belafonte, half of an int... More »
If you believe President Biden’s aides and allies, he intends to fight the 2024 election primarily on the threat that Donald Trump poses to American democracy. In their view, this worked in 2020, when Biden promised to protect the “soul of the nation” from Tru... More »
A few years ago, when James Carville was teaching at Louisiana State University, he heard that one of his students had gotten into the school of her dreams to work on an advanced degree. He wanted to toast her.“I get a $25 champagne and four plastic flutes,” h... More »
Alarms are blaring about artificial intelligence deepfakes that manipulate voters, like the robocall sounding like President Biden that went to New Hampshire households, or the fake video of Taylor Swift endorsing Donald Trump.Yet there’s actually a far bigger... More »
When Kate Middleton announced her recent cancer diagnosis, she emphasized the time she and her husband, William, Prince of Wales, took to share the news with their three children. Talking to pre-adolescent children about serious illnesses is the right course o... More »
After months of speculation about her recent health challenges, Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed Friday that she has cancer.The video announcement was short on specifics, prompting a new set of questions about her condition. She said she was initially to... More »
Assessing the level of change in partisan allegiance in recent years, as well as the president’s numbers since the State of the Union.Voting patterns have changed a lot in the last decade.Cody O'Loughlin for The New York TimesWe’re trying to find more ways to ... More »
Survey data shows more of them believe he acted criminally.Republicans who get their news from nonconservative mainstream media outlets are less likely to support Donald J. Trump than those who follow conservative outlets. And sizable numbers from the first gr... More »
Ep. 572 — Chris Christie The Axe Files with David Axelrod Eight years ago, then-New Jersey Governor Chris Christie shook up the political world by dropping out of the race for president to endorse Donald Trump. Since the election of 2020 and the even... More »