First lady Jackie Kennedy regretted that she felt forever defined by the death of her husband, biographer J. Randy ...

The core of the Voting Rights Act, which bars discrimination in voting, may be hollowed out in a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, say experts who are worried the court’s decision could ...

John Hetrick, an avid reader based in the Valley, made it his mission to finish all 100 of the New York Times' top books of the 21st century.

From a new mystery and a book of essays to excellent nonfiction about editors and publishing, we’ve got you covered.

The Trump administration is officially taking steps to dismantle the Department of Education. The idea has been around for ...

During his research for his biography of publisher George Weidenfeld, historian Thomas Harding stumbled across a cache of ...

New York City will add 10,000 seats to its universal after-school program for the 2026 school year, including spaces at 17 ...

The expansion is part of Mayor Adams’ plan to create 20,000 new program slots over the next few years, unveiled in the last ...

Queens schools are expected to receive two dozen new after-school programs, while Brooklyn and the Bronx will have 17 each, ...

As Americans gather together with family and friends for the Thanksgiving weekend, many will likely have partisan differences. That just seems to be a fact of life in present-day America.

Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ...

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool.