Trump’s forceful DEI order is a major step toward meritocracy and fair play, even if his order is potentially overbroad.

It is truly chilling to see the breadth of power that Trump is attempting to claim. Erwin Chemerinsky, a contributing writer to Opinion, is dean of the UC Berkeley Law School.

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A new memoir by the tech mogul recounts a boyhood steeped in old-fashioned, analog pastimes as well as precocious feats of coding. By Jennifer Szalai It’s among the more playful matters on his ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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The latest book in the phenomenally popular romance-fantasy Empyrean Series finds Violet Sorrengail leaving Basgiath War College, where she’s been studying to be a dragon rider, and venturing ...

In his latest book Dr Rangan Chatterjee teaches you how to smash the bad habits steering you straight towards burnout. Gripping tale of the lines on which espionage meets the Vatican's priests.

“Shattered” recounts the experience and its aftermath. In his new book “Everything Must Go,” Dorian Lynskey recounts two millennia of apocalyptic predictions. Amazingly, it’s not depressin ...