Toni Morrison, in 2008. She was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.Toni Morrison read the New York Times with pencil in hand. An editor by trade, Morrison never stop ...

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke a few months ago claimed, “This country was founded on white supremacy.” In 2017, Minnesota Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar asserted, “We must confr ...

Justice John Paul​ Stevens, who died in July, believed that Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, wrote Shakespeare’s plays.In August, 2011, I received a letter with a return address that read “Supreme ...

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Rick Dalton, an actor past his prime, in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” about fame and the brutality and beauty of the movie industry.In Quentin Tara ...

After a week of unrelenting gun violence across the country, listening to the new podcast “Jolted,” about a mass shooting averted, helped me move from despair to determination.The Vermont Public Radio ...

Many doctors feel despair about their appalling working conditions and the deteriorating doctor-patient relationship. But there have been no protest marches or social-media campaigns. Why not?In the f ...