The dark comedy “Two People Exchanging Saliva” and the dreamy animation “Retirement Plan” will vie in short-film categories at the ceremony in March.https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/two-new-yorker-films-receive-2026-oscar-nominations
Under the cover of an internet blackout, Iranian security forces killed hundreds of demonstrators. Only now are details of the carnage starting to emerge.https://www.newyorker.com/news/as-told-to/a-massacre-in-mashhad
A few families have been duelling for control of Loving County for decades. Then the followers of a hustle-culture influencer moved in.https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-battle-for-one-of-the-richest-and-smallest-counties-in-texas
In 2023, Julia Bacha began filming a backbench state assemblyman. Little did she know that she was making a documentary about the next mayor of New York City.https://www.newyorker.com/news/new-york-journal/bringing-zohran-mamdani-to-the-big-screen
To reduce tension and violence, let local police departments cooperate with ICE.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/sanctuary-cities-can-be-deadly-906eec57
It’s an old lesson: Absolute power leaves those who wield it isolated and confused.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/chinas-decadence-and-the-military-purge-47d17a8e
Direct-to-consumer medical companies could revolutionize the industry.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ro-and-our-new-health-sherpas-d6af54a2
ICE arrests are growing but fewer have a criminal history.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/mass-deportation-trump-administration-ice-criminals-minnesota-tim-walz-kristi-noem-7f3bb88b
The metal’s rise to $5,000 is a market vote of declining confidence.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gold-price-5000-markets-donald-trump-de17d26d
A judge’s order on racial ‘vote dilution’ could cost the GOP a House seat.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-try-to-steal-staten-island-0c98d760
It promotes the myth that Jews can be victims only if they’re powerless and depicted as subhuman.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/holocaust-education-obscures-antisemitism-94a37fdd
The civil-rights movement succeeded because federal agents and protesters alike showed restraint.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/lessons-for-2020s-minnesota-in-1960s-mississippi-d8e3cbf1
The CFPB is ending Biden-era racial discrimination.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/dei-turns-fair-lending-laws-on-their-head-04faa69a
Institutional investors are a distraction from the real causes of high home prices—government policies.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/scott-bessent-and-gavin-newsom-feud-over-a-dumb-idea-aaa7ed63
Delcy Rodríguez is bad news. So are her brother and her rival Diosdado Cabello.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/meet-trumps-partners-in-venezuela-177c799d
It might not fill a textbook but it shows why the contest isn’t over and will likely embroil U.S. rivals.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-trump-knows-about-greenland-e3c8a964
One of the reasons reading comprehension is successful is that the South had weak teachers unions compared to California and Illinois.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-page-from-mississippi-the-nation-can-use-6f79480f
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is eviscerating his nation’s socialist employment restrictions.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-free-market-milestone-for-indias-economy-4edce006
The CDC can now gain the evidence-based data that they have claimed is lacking.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/opportunity-from-outbreak-7635e13c
Are we in a ‘productivity supercycle’?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/another-nice-surprise-for-the-u-s-economy-f42f1a07