New York Times

Universities disagree on what qualifications make an ideal student.

Businesses have long claimed the First Amendment should excuse them from complying with the law. The Supreme Court has always rejected that argument.

The president’s credo: “Just tell them and they believe you.”

Stephen Colbert didn’t let Mr. Bush, in his first televised interview since the infamous tape became public, get away with an easy self-exoneration.

The new FICO Eataly World in Bologna is a million square feet of food: pasta, porchetta, gelato and more. And then there’s the volleyball court.

Inside the fight over federal rules on campus sexual assault.

Emily Wilson’s landmark translation of the “Odyssey” matches the original’s line count while drawing on a spare, simple and direct idiom.

On social media, pettiness is celebrated as a comic skill. In the corridors of power, it’s more ominous.

As major companies chase India’s new internet users, Google is changing core products to work better on low-end smartphones and use less data.

Uganda has a strategy for giving scarce morphine to patients in pain. But many poor nations won’t emulate it, over fear of an opioid epidemic.

The novelistic saga of Russia’s systematic doping at the Olympics will reach a climax with a decision Tuesday on its participation in the 2018 Winter Games.

When an establishment opens in town and everyone’s lining up for a taste, here’s how you can score a seat — the smart and easy way.

A generation maligned as entitled whiners will be particularly hard hit by the Republicans’ wretched tax bill.

Here’s what you need to know to start your day.

Myanmar’s ethnic-cleansing generals will be able to retreat deeper into China’s orbit, unburdened by any fears of being held accountable.

Met officials and musicians spent Monday grappling with the fallout from the suspension of Mr. Levine, the company’s longtime conductor.

K.T. McFarland, a former aide to President Trump, told a senator that she did not talk with Michael T. Flynn about his contacts with a Russian official. Emails suggest she knew of a key phone call.

The Republican National Committee restored its support for Mr. Moore, the Senate candidate in Alabama who has stabilized in the polls after sexual misconduct accusations.

A computer algorithm will result in “a flocking behavior that mimics what you can see in real birds in the sky, or fish in the sea” at Art Basel Miami Beach.

Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to lessen the embrace of single-use plastic water bottles, many of which are never recycled.