The Department of Education’s abandonment of traditional civil-rights litigation has effectively transported parents back in ...

UP in New Haven, a classic instance of the problems confronting the have-nots (in this case, Dartmouth) was resolved, 20-0, in favor of the haves (in this case, Yale). Yale, rich in running and ...

The Atlantic C.E.O.—and author of “The Running Ground”—discusses four books about how demanding physical pursuits can change ...

From the daily newsletter: the legal writer Ruth Marcus on why the President and his allies have floated a seemingly ...

In 1988, when the British government declared that the voices of Sinn Féin or I.R.A. leaders were not to be heard, ...

Sinn Fein is a legitimate political party. [Reporter] Which supports terrorist action. You can't deny it. Then it became more and more competitive. Are you a fireman?

On the West Side, go up Broadway to 168th Street and then straight ahead on St. Nicholas Avenue. This takes one down the hill eventually to the corner of Dyckman Street (the Speedway) and Nagle Avenue ...

Our own practical little prophecy is that over a hundred and fifty people will want to play, but that a great many of them won’t be able to, owing to the fact that there aren’t enough courts. Right ...

Mr. Bloch has been, by trade, a professor of music (in his spare time he is an important creative artist) and the cognoscenti stroked their tingling hair out of their ears in anticipation of a sedate ...

I always liked the lima bean, A pleasant vegetable Of dainty and becoming green, But I am never able To satisfy my appetite At eighty cents a portion, For every five and ten-cent bite Tastes faintly ...

In the wealth of other things there is the “May Belfort” of Toulouse-Lautrec, two superb Segonzacs, and canvases by such masters as Fantin-Latour, Forain, Manet, Monet, Mori-sot, Pissarro and Redon.

“American Beauty,” at the Strand, was a sappy bit alleged to be a comedy. Billie Dove was leading lady and she looked pretty with her hat on. Lloyd Hughes was the leading man and he wrestled with his ...