Warren Buffett’s extraordinary run at the top of Berkshire Hathaway is over — and the transition underway at the Omaha-based conglomerate offers a rare, instructive case study in what genuine corporate succession can look like when it is managed with…
A Teacher’s Discovery Shuts Down an Entire School It took one teacher noticing something wrong on the second day of school to trigger a crisis that would keep 422 students out of their classrooms for nearly two weeks. At Alexandria…
Russian intelligence services allegedly attempted to recruit people inside the United States to surveil and assassinate political opponents, according to a sweeping federal indictment that places foreign-directed political violence unusually close to the centre of Washington. The Department of Justice…
Black studies programs built through decades of student protest are disappearing from American campuses — quietly, incrementally, and with institutional language designed to obscure what is actually happening. Northwestern University’s recent decision to restructure its 78-year-old Program of African Studies…
Democrats Leave Impeachment Open, but Put Affordability First House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Sunday that Democrats have not ruled out impeaching President Donald Trump if they recapture the House majority in November’s midterm elections — but made clear…
Johnson Makes Re-election Bid Official Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) confirmed Sunday that he will seek a second term leading the nation’s third-largest city, telling the New York Times in an interview at his downtown campaign office that he intends…
What the Lawsuit Claims — and What It Actually Targets The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit Thursday against Utah, Arkansas, Hawaii, and Washington, D.C., challenging state laws that allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition at public universities. The…
On a September morning outside a synagogue on the Upper West Side, the familiar scene of families gathering for Rosh Hashanah looks much as it always has — children in pressed clothes, elders embracing, the low murmur of anticipation before…
The heat outside the American Airlines Center in Dallas topped one hundred degrees, but the faithful came anyway — streaming through the doors in oversized MAGA hats, Trump sneakers that retail for four hundred dollars, and baseball jerseys bearing the…
A Purge Dressed Up as a Principle The word “meritocracy” is doing a lot of work right now — and almost none of it honestly. Under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon has adopted the language of colorblindness as a…