The “Cornell 7” gang rape case is descending into the same lynch-mob hysteria as the notorious Duke lacrosse or “mattress girl” hoaxes of old — only with social media...
The plummeting enrollment in DOE schools, even as the population at public charter schools grows year after year, is the most telling "customer feedback"...
On a clear day, from the right spot on the Maltese coast, you can see Tunisia. It’s about 200 miles away — closer than Los Angeles is to San Francisco — and for most of recorded history, arranging travel from one to the other was about as complicated as hailing a cab. The Malta–Carthage run […]
Steven Spielberg’s latest big-budget adventure, Disclosure Day, came and went earlier this summer. Like Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), the film predicted a day in the not too distant future when the cover-ups and conspiracies surrounding alleged extraterrestrial life have ended — when the world would finally possess undisputed proof that human beings […]
Chris Bohjalian’s The Amateur tells a story from the perspective of an adult looking back at a decades-old pivotal event she sometimes misremembers. The event and its consequences shift their shape. Sometimes the story seems to be about killing someone with a golf ball. Sometimes it is about adult men who take sexual advantage of […]
There is no legally binding international treaty that establishes abortion as a human right. Yet governments around the world are increasingly told they are violating international law if they refuse to legalize or expand abortion. How did a right that nations never negotiated become one that international institutions now claim governments are obligated to uphold? […]
Every August and September, parents face a familiar ritual: purchasing school supplies, meeting teachers, and filling out a thick stack of medical forms. For decades, the mandatory immunization checklist was the most predictable part of this routine. School nurses filed the records away, classrooms opened, and the system functioned without much noise. The post-COVID-19 era […]
