One of the world’s leading scholars of early Christianity answers difficult questions about ancient texts. Topics include historical sources for Jesus, translation issues, and how meanings changed ...

A 17-year-old Boy Scout driving home through a Maine snowstorm in 1945 spotted two strangers walking toward the woods. His tip to the FBI helped lead to the capture of Nazi spies — and weeks later ...

When Samantha Ruth Prabhu graces the fashion carpet, she makes zero apologies for stealing the scene. Where others rely on sequins and high structure, she believes in quiet luxury attained with ...

It has been a whirlwind of a Thursday morning for costume designer Ruth E. Carter. Not only has she been nominated for her work on Sinners, but the film itself broke a record when it received 16 ...

It may have been a legislative tautology, but nearly 70% of Texas voters in November asserted that parents are the “primary decision makers for their children” when they approved Proposition 15. No ...

LOS ANGELES — Ruth E. Carter has made history once more. With her Oscar nomination for “Sinners,” Carter has become the most-nominated Black woman in Academy Awards history across any category, the ...

Included at the start of the story collection “Disinheritance” (Counterpoint, 352 pages, $30) is a speech that its author, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, delivered in 1979, which has one of the best metaphors ...

If your 2025 YouTube history is a mashup of music videos, cooking clips, sports highlights and late-night "how did I get here?" rabbit holes, then there is a new way for you to look back at your year ...

It’s as great a design for life as you can get, I think. A noble aspiration, but a challenge to navigate, especially in high seas. It also touches on the conundrum of the artist. How do we remain ...

Ruth Asawa rarely missed a chance to loop others into her work. At Black Mountain College, she would wake before dawn to rouse Josef Albers, the Bauhaus color theorist, so that they could watch the ...