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Maulik Pancholy was scheduled to give a talk on anti-bullying at a Pennsylvania school next month. School board members scrapped it, citing concerns about his activism and “lifestyle.”

The Netflix series showcases one of the country’s most successful works of culture. Instead of demonstrating pride, social media is condemning it.

The home of boundary-pushing artists from around the world has been upended by debates about what can and can’t be said about Israel and the war.

OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.

His sprawling and boisterous novel “The Sot-Weed Factor,” published in 1960, projected him into the ranks of the country’s most innovative writers.

She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize.

The tale behind a new museum of children’s literature is equal parts imagination, chutzpah and “The Little Engine That Could.”

As evidence grows about the benefits of tying the knot, married people are poised to become a minority.

How did gender become a scary word? The theorist who got us talking about the subject has answers.

After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a modest elephant and his escapades in Paris for seven decades.

An interracial soirée that included intellectual and artistic luminaries set in motion one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th century.

When the author received an impassioned email, he dropped everything to visit the students who inspired it.

In an interview in his chambers and in a new book, the justice, who retired in 2022, discussed Dobbs, originalism and the decline of trust in the court.

The philosopher Baruch Spinoza’s commitment to free thought and reason is sorely needed in our time of demagogues and dogma.

He popularized the term “institutional racism" and, with Stokely Carmichael, wrote a book in 1967 that was seen as a radical manifesto.

She created one of the world’s best-known characters for children, and fought to have the book published, but she never sought celebrity status.

The 33-year-old librarian from California has become popular on TikTok and Instagram with his upbeat take on libraries.

Authors and activists said the Republican-backed law infringed on free speech. The judge said the ban imposed a “puritanical ‘pall of orthodoxy’ over school libraries.”