Why It Matters: Texas has one of the largest transgender populations in the country. According to estimates from the Williams Institute, a research center that reports on the demographics of L.G.B.T.Q. people, nearly 30,000 transgender people ages 13 to 17 live in Texas, making it one of the states with …

This article is also a weekly newsletter. Sign up for Race/Related here. Ten years ago, I lived in Washington, D.C., and would watch cranes dotting the landscape all across the northern banks of the Anacostia River. I was recently back in the city, and now the cranes have been replaced …

What makes for a strong New York movie? The standouts are often, like the city itself, unpredictable, a little shabby around the edges, sometimes exasperating but always compelling. The Tribeca Festival, which runs Wednesday to June 18, has loved this kind of work since its beginnings and has made it …

Mark Zuckerberg embraced a digital world known as the metaverse when he said in November 2021 that he was changing his company’s name from Facebook to Meta. A month later, Bill Gates, a founder of Microsoft, wrote that within two or three years, he believed most virtual meetings would transition …

Don Bateman, an engineer who invented a cockpit device that warns airplane pilots with colorful screen displays and dire audible alerts like “Caution Terrain!” and “Pull Up!” when they are in danger of crashing into mountains, buildings or water — an innovation that has likely saved thousands of lives — …

President Biden is scheduled to deliver a rare Oval Office address on Friday evening after congressional passage of legislation that narrowly averts the economic calamity of a first-ever default on the nation’s debt. The legislation, known as the Fiscal Responsibility Act, passed the Senate late Thursday after receiving broad support …

The area also has its share of stately brick mansions that make you wonder who lives there, or used to. Often, it’s someone well-off, but occasionally it’s a someone someone. Power players in media, politics and entertainment — like Madeleine Albright, Ben Bradlee, Katherine Graham, John Kerry, Joe Lieberman and …

‘It Is Night in America’ Stream it on Mubi. Ana Vaz’s debut feature is a work of nocturnal ethnography — a documentary that invites us into a thicket of sound and darkling images so we may emerge with a fresh understanding of the world around us. “It Is Night in …

The News A Superior Court judge on Thursday dismissed a privacy lawsuit against Meta by the District of Columbia, which had accused the company of deceiving consumers by improperly sharing their data with third parties, including the British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. The decision was a rare victory for …

After 14 rounds of words like “probouleutic” and “zwitterion” and “schistorrhachis,” Dev Shah, an eighth grader from Florida, reached the apotheosis of his craft, correctly spelling “psammophile” to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night. He denied the spelling community another thrilling spell-off, outlasted the dominant Texans and …