Last October, Sanae Takaichi became Japan’s Prime Minister after being elected as head of the Liberal Democratic Party, the conservative political party that has governed Japan for most of its postwar ...

The Labour politician and strategist was a great survivor. Then came revelations that he passed sensitive government information to Epstein during the financial crisis. Letter from the U.K. What the ...

Edward Saatchi first saw “The Magnificent Ambersons,” Orson Welles’s mangled masterpiece from 1942, when he was twelve years old, in the private screening room of his family’s crenellated mansion, in ...

A large language model is nothing more than a monumental pile of small numbers. It converts words into numbers, runs those numbers through a numerical pinball game, and turns the resulting numbers ...

Rena Cohen, a rising star in the crossword community, said the Midi is a perfect introduction to the world of themes. Even a ...

This month’s reality television themed grid was co-constructed by Christina Iverson and Gabby Windey.

The conservative commentator talks with David Remnick about the antisemitism in MAGA media and why he condemns President Trump as corrupt yet sticks with him. So, you know, I'd worked at Talk Radio ...

The New York Times has launched the Midi, a daily medium-size crossword. Solve it on our website or in the Games app.

The staff writers Emily Witt and Ruby Cramer discuss the situation in Minneapolis, a city effectively under siege by militaristic federal agents. “This is a city where there’s a police force of about ...

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