Graphic design’s true potential emerges when it steps beyond the surface and becomes integrated into physical space. By JOHN RIVAS Special to The STAR Graphic design has long been understood as a two‑dimensional discipline -- symbols, typography, posters, and visual systems that exist on a flat plane. But its true potential emerges when it steps beyond the surface and becomes integrated into physical space. In that transition, design ceases to be merely an image and becomes a

“The federal government owes Americans a thorough investigation and a truthful accounting of the Saturday morning shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti on a Minneapolis street,” writes The New York Times’ Editorial Board. (Illustration by Rebecca Chew/The New York Times; Photo by Victor J. Blue/The New York Times) By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The federal government owes Americans a thorough investigation and a truthful accounting of the Saturday morning shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti on

President Donald Trump with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada at the White House on May 6, 2025. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By ROSS DOUTHAT As Donald Trump rampaged about in his first term, leadership of the free world was transferred, by general liberal acclamation, to Angela Merkel of Germany. She was cast as the embodiment of internationalist virtue: prudent, broad-minded, diplomatic, multilateralist and expertise-driven above all. Then Trump left office, Merkel left

Federal agents confront protestors in Minneapolis, near the intersection of 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, where federal law enforcement agents shot a person earlier on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By M. GESSEN After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear —

Marine One with President Donald Trump aboard arrives in Davos, Switzerland, where he was to address the World Economic Forum, on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. By NICHOLAS KRISTOF President Donald Trump pounces on weakness, but retreats from strength. That’s one reason for Europe’s present troubles: For too long it was weak both toward Russia in the East and toward the new menace arising in the West. That’s certainly Trump’s perception. “I think they’re weak,” Trump said last mon

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN I have never trafficked in the conspiracy theories about Donald Trump and Russia. I never thought that he was a Russian asset or that Vladimir Putin had some financial leverage on him or sex tapes to blackmail him with. I have always believed it was much worse: that Trump, in his heart and soul, simply does not share the values of every other American president since World War II when it comes to what America’s role in the world should be and must be. I

Passengers look at the Statue of Liberty from a Staten Island Ferry in New York, May 30, 2025. (Damon Winter/The New York Times) By NICHOLAS KRISTOF We Americans like to boast, “We’re No. 1,” and we certainly are in our military capacity to invade other countries and abduct odious foreign leaders. But in the well-being of ordinary citizens? A careful study released last week and based on a measure called the Social Progress Index suggests that in terms of quality of life, th

President Donald Trump reacts during an event marking the renaming of a section of Southern Boulevard to “President Donald J. Trump Boulevard” at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (Allison Robbert/The New York Times) By THE EDITORIAL BOARD President Donald Trump is celebrating the anniversary of his return to power by accelerating his attack on the rule of law. He has spent the week leading up to Jan. 20 using the mighty powers of the Justice Departmen