A diverse electorate of cardinals is meeting in a conclave to pick the next pope. Though Francis appointed most of them, they may not choose another pope like him, as Jason Horowitz, the Rome bureau ...

Efforts to take the focus off the nation’s racial past in compliance with President Trump’s wishes face resistance from those ...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently announced that the public would finally be able to preview its new, ...

U.S. officials asked for records about a New Jersey woman’s summons, issued at a Columbia University protest. Now the ...

The Baltimore group toiled in the underground until its 2021 LP blew up. With a new album, “Never Enough,” it’s testing the ...

Administrators and trustees have ordered a review of the faculty-led university senate, which could redefine control of ...

It’s Danny Kind, and he’s not even Catholic. But he’s in a college class that simulated the conclave of 1492. (There were ...

At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and ...

There are three broad spirits in which American television portrays the rich: aspiration, judgment and reassurance. The ...

Mr. Bisignano, a former Wall Street executive, will lead an agency upended by big staff cuts and other significant changes.

The National Climate Assessment has a setback, but help is on the way. Also: Vietnam-era exiles from the U.S.; drugs and ...

Ross Douthat, a Times Opinion columnist, hosted an online conversation with Michael Brendan Dougherty, a senior writer at ...