By Sarah Maslin Nir When Democrats in Connecticut introduced legislation to ban the word “Latinx” from government documents, they found themselves with unlikely allies: Republicans including Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas, who barred “Latinx” from state documents as her first official act. Their reasons differ: Conservatives argue that the word, coined about 20 years ago as an inclusive, gender-neutral term to describe people of Latino descent, is a trope of liberal

By Ross Douthat American teenagers, and especially American teenage girls, are increasingly miserable: more likely to entertain suicidal thoughts and act on them, more likely to experience depression, more likely to feel beset by “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness,” to quote a survey report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Adults in every era tend to fret about the condition of the youth relative to the good old days when we ourselves were you

The Rev. Terry Gobanga, who founded Kara Olmurani shelter, in Lavon, Texas, Dec. 2, 2022. “Sexual violence persists because it’s hard to talk about,” writes New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. “It thrives in silence, leaving children nowhere to turn.” By NICHOLAS KRISTOF She is impossibly young to have endured what she did, and what still haunts her is the job of the man responsible: a police officer. “He said that if I tell, he will kill me,” whispered the 11-year-old

By Erik Piepenburg I’ve got just two wishes this Christmas: That Santa brings me the “Hereditary” gingerbread treehouse kit and that my recommendations make your holidays scary bright. ‘Christmas Bloody Christmas’ Like the new film “Violent Night,” this movie is about a killer Santa Claus. Sort of: The degenerate Father Christmas in this case is actually a RoboSanta+ (Abraham Benrubi), a towering animatronic figure who comes to life from a toy store display to terrorize a sma

By Lauren Herstik, Jill Cowan and Livia Albeck-Ripka Harvey Weinstein, once a film colossus who wielded immense power in Hollywood, was found guilty Monday of raping and sexually assaulting an actress in 2013, but jurors found him not guilty of one charge and could not decide on three other counts. The verdict, delivered by jurors in Los Angeles, was the second sex crimes conviction for Weinstein, 70, who was found guilty nearly three years ago of sexual assault and rape in N

By Kyle Buchanan One of the last firewalls in film fell earlier this year, when Apple TV+ became the first streaming service to win the best picture Oscar for its heartwarmer “CODA.” But next year, it’ll be an honor — and maybe even a long shot — for streamers just to be nominated. Though Apple, Netflix and Amazon have become Oscar-season staples in just a few short years, regularly netting nominations in all the top categories, the new crop of contenders skews so heavily tow

By Alexis Soloski In February 2020, a New York jury found Harvey Weinstein, the producer whose films had won dozens of Oscars, guilty of criminal sexual assault and rape. Now, 2 1/2 years later, he is again on trial, in California, facing 11 further charges. Jurors in this trial received a particular instruction: The judge barred them from watching the trailer for “She Said.” That’s the film adaptation of the nonfiction book of the same title. In it, New York Times journalist

By Vivian Wang The man walked into a barbecue restaurant in northern China and approached a table of three women. He put his hand on the back of one, who shook him off. In response, he slapped her — then, with several other men, savagely beat her and the other women, hitting them with chairs, kicking them and dragging them outdoors. The security camera footage of the brutal attack, which took place in the city of Tangshan on Friday and left two women hospitalized, spread rapi