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Officials have evacuated almost one million residents in the southern part of the Philippines’ main island of Luzon as a category 5 storm – the world’s strongest this year – makes landfall. Typhoon Goni, with 215km/h sustained winds and gusts of up to 265km/h, will bring violent winds and strong …

Otto Plath was of German origin but therein any similarity to the Nazi figure he is transmuted into in “Daddy” ends. (Plath would be much criticized in the years to come for appropriating Holocaust imagery for her own use, although, as Clark points out, “the theme was in the air …

Halfway through “Bad Hair,” Justin Simien’s horror-comedy on Hulu, a group of Black women sit in a conference room and debate the merits of changing their hairstyles to conform to the new corporate climate at Culture, the Black music television network where they work. Donning large gold hoop earrings, a …

Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. The most frequently posed query in N.B.A. circles over the past several weeks — When do you think next season will start? — had also been one of the hardest to answer. Even Commissioner Adam …

Gray wolves, one of the first animals shielded by the Endangered Species Act after Americans all but exterminated them in the lower 48 states, will no longer receive federal protection, officials announced Thursday. “After more than 45 years as a listed species, the gray wolf has exceeded all conservation goals …

If America goes dark, if the message broadcast by the Statue of Liberty shifts from “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” to “get the hell off my lawn”; if America becomes just as cynically transactional in all its foreign dealings as Russia and …

What did we talk about before Donald Trump? What will we talk about after Donald Trump? Will there even be an after? And was there ever really a before? One summer day five years or a millennium ago, a boorish TV businessman, a B-list personality with a taste for the …

Even with everything we know about President Trump’s deep and abiding disrespect for women, it was disconcerting to see him treat a U.S. senator — from his own party, no less — like a dog. At a rally in Arizona on Wednesday, Mr. Trump made clear his impatience with sharing …

There’s Nour Imam, 28, who works as a doula, a woman who assists with childbirth, and is a growing Instagram phenomenon, who has made it her mission to normalize discussion of a woman’s body. One of her latest posts, an illustration of a woman holding up a mirror to her …

But the point is: Trump has normalized selfishness. This moral cynicism has not been healthy, and I don’t just mean this in the psychological or spiritual sense. Our lost generosity has cost American lives. A once-in-a-century pandemic strikes, our public health experts eventually tell us all to wear masks for …