NEW YORK (AP) — Even before Superstorm Sandy’s floodwaters surged over New York City’s Rockaway Peninsula, there was an air of decay in Edgemere, a far-flung seaside neighborhood long pockmarked with boarded-up…
In the past 500 years, when a rising power has challenged an existing one, war has broken out on 12 of those 16 occasions. Can the Americans and Chinese avoid…
We are beyond thrilled to share that The Public Theater’s Board of Trustees has unanimously selected arts supporter, activist, and longtime board member Luis A. Miranda, Jr. as our next board chair! Luis is…
"I Am Free … But Who Is Left?” is a new documentary created by Joanne Weiner Rudof and Lawrence Langer with Yale's Fortunoff Video Archive For Holocaust Testimonies that tells their…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new art installation that visitors can walk through on New York’s Governors Island features giant chain links grinding overhead, pointing to the legacy of slavery…
As the threat of nuclear war shrouds the world in a fog, bringing grave unease and anxiety, many people are looking to the UN for answers. Surely the gathering of…
Musician Carly Simon has lost both of her sisters, Lucy and Joanna, to cancer one day apart from each other. Lucy, known throughout her life and career as a composer…
Updated 5:23 pm EDT Oct. 21, 2022 A team of scientists in Portugal say they discovered the heaviest bony fish in the world in the Azores archipelago in the Atlantic…
A stage adaptation, at BAM, crams Hanya Yanagihara’s sprawling novel into a single evening—not without some violence. The proverbial straw that breaks “A Little Life”—the Dutch stage adaptation of Hanya…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPJNS8bU7TQ “We are making a new Ukraine,” says Tetiana Burianova, as she surveys her volunteers clearing up a shattered house, part of a day’s reconstruction efforts in a war-ravaged village…