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Climate Change Comes to Sesame Street

5 August 2026 at 15:38

By: David Gelles

An episode this week focuses on the dangerous effects of warming, without mentioning climate change.

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Elim Chan Becomes First Female Music Director of San Francisco Symphony
21 May 2026 at 16:48

Elim Chan Becomes First Female Music Director of San Francisco Symphony

21 May 2026 at 16:48

By: Adam Nagourney

Elim Chan has been named the symphony’s next music director. She joins a small field of female conductors at American orchestras, as San Francisco rebuilds after Esa-Pekka Salonen.

“When it happened, I was like, ‘Oh my God — it’s time,’” the conductor Elim Chan said of her appointment in San Francisco. “It is groundbreaking. It’s another ceiling broken.”

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Amid the Gaza War, Israel Is More Divided and Isolated Than Ever
5 October 2025 at 07:00

Amid the Gaza War, Israel Is More Divided and Isolated Than Ever

5 October 2025 at 07:00

By: Roger Cohen， David Guttenfelder and Saher Alghorra

The longest war of an endless Israeli-Palestinian conflict has come to challenge Israel’s own image and understanding of itself.

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Israel’s Plan for Gaza City Is Still Unclear
11 August 2025 at 09:59

Israel’s Plan for Gaza City Is Still Unclear

11 August 2025 at 09:59

By: Patrick Kingsley

The Israeli government said last week that it wanted to capture Gaza City, but how and when it will proceed has yet to be decided.

Tens of thousands of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday, calling for a deal to free hostages held in Gaza.

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Stephen Sondheim Doesn’t Want to Be Your Savior
25 November 2023 at 20:54

Stephen Sondheim Doesn’t Want to Be Your Savior

25 November 2023 at 20:54

By: Ben Brantley

Sondheim has been canonized, with revivals and revues everywhere. It’s a development he might have greeted with deep ambivalence.