A Chicago criminologist challenges our assumptions about why most shootings happen—and what really makes a city safe.

As the Lebanese Army tries to assert its authority in the war-torn south, calls to disarm Hezbollah are rising.

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The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.

The Pavement front man passed through town with his latest project, the Hard Quartet, and showed off his one-handed backhand.

The N.H.L.’s newest hockey team unveiled its official name and mascot: an extinct behemoth with fossils at the American ...

A subway-platform poster for the School of Visual Arts was trying to stimulate discussion about A.I. One commuter engaged, ...

The N.H.L.’s newest hockey team unveiled its official name and mascot: an extinct behemoth with fossils at the American ...

In “Superfine,” the Africana-studies scholar Monica L. Miller explores the links between style, self-presentation, and ...

We have been so touched by the flood of D.M.s, the comments posted on Nextdoor, and the notes tied to rocks thrown through ...

The new book picks up a decade later with a different crisis, this one born of a sudden increase in drugs. Among the novel’s ...